Whole Milk with Raspberry Pieces

Whole milk chocolate with fruity raspberry pieces

Berger Confiserie's Whole Milk with Raspberry Pieces is an organic milk chocolate bar with crunchy berry pieces and Fairtrade cocoa. A creamy melt and fruity, tangy berries come together here in a bright, fresh interplay that brings a touch of freshness to any afternoon coffee table.

Whole Milk with Raspberry Pieces is Berger Confiserie's name for an organic milk chocolate with 37 percent cocoa, scattered with just under 3 percent crunchy raspberry pieces. The berry brings a fine acidity that lightens the milky sweetness, without any added flavoring. Creamy, fruity, with a tingle of fruit – and pink speckles show what's inside as soon as you break it.

Creamy melt, fruity acidity

When you break the bar, pink pieces flash into view, then the milky melt wraps around a bright, fruity acidity that stands out immediately.

First the creamy milk chocolate, mild and round, then come the berry pieces, crunchy and slightly tart, giving the sweetness a fresh counterpoint. It tingles a little on the tongue, that's how lively the fruit is. Just under 3 percent raspberry is enough, because the dried fruit brings its aroma in concentrated form. Creamy, fruity, fresh – this is how summer tastes in a bar, even in the middle of winter.

Real raspberry in organic milk chocolate with Fairtrade cocoa

For the fruity touch, Berger scatters real raspberry pieces into a milk chocolate made from Fairtrade-certified organic cocoa, without flavoring and without coloring.

Raw cane sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder and cocoa mass form the bar, along with the fruit and a little vanilla, all ingredients from organic farming. The color and the flavor come solely from real berries. You can taste it clearly, because the acidity comes across as genuine and natural, not perfumed, and stays bright as it lingers for a long time.

A good three quarters of the bar carries the Fairtrade mark, cocoa, raw cane sugar and vanilla included, and has done so since 2016. The ingredient list has seven items, one of them the raspberry itself. You'll find the bar among our chocolate bars, next to the plain organic milk chocolate.

Refined bars from Lofer

In Lofer, in Salzburg's Saalach Valley, Berger Feinste Confiserie refines its milk chocolate with fruit, nuts and fine ingredients, each variety individually by hand.

It all began in 1994 in a garage, where Hubert and Christine Berger founded the business after their years as journeymen abroad. Today around 100 people work for the company and its nine shops, and every bar is still made by hand. Alongside the permanent year-round range, the chocolatiers keep designing seasonal varieties, just as Hubert and Christine did from the very beginning. If you love fruit, you'll also find the milk chocolate strawberry tiramisu in the range.

Over yogurt and quark, with a prosecco on the side

The bar holds 90 g of chocolate with berry pieces, for breaking and sharing. With a milky coffee, a glass of sparkling wine or simply as a treat in between, the fruity milk chocolate is especially lovely. Stored cool and dry, away from strongly scented neighbors in the cupboard, it keeps its melt and its fruity aroma for a long time.

The bubbles in a glass of prosecco play up the berry, and chopped coarsely and scattered over yogurt and quark, the acidity stays bright. On a scoop of vanilla ice cream it melts slowly and releases its berry tang, a quick dessert for hot days. As a small gift it goes down well, as does the rest of the Berger range with its fruity and plain varieties.

Organic control number AT-BIO-301 – EU/non-EU agriculture