Dark Chocolate Whisky Orange Filled

Dark chocolate with a whisky-orange filling

Berger Confiserie's Dark Chocolate Whisky Orange is a filled dark bar with a creamy ganache of milk chocolate, whisky and orange liqueur. Bittersweet chocolate outside, a malty, fruity filling inside, grown-up and warming, a digestif in bar form. For anyone who likes it bittersweet, warm and a little different.

Dark Chocolate Whisky Orange Filled is Berger Confiserie's name for a dark chocolate with 70 percent cocoa and a ganache of light milk chocolate, a good 2 percent whisky and 2 percent orange liqueur. The spirit brings malty warmth, the citrus fruit a bright freshness, bound with cream into a velvety center: spicy, fruity, velvety. A confection for late evenings.

Malty warmth meets bright citrus

First the bittersweet snap of the dark shell, then the creamy filling, in which malty spirit and bright orange come together. A bite that warms you and yet stays fresh.

The 70 percent cocoa provides a strong, bittersweet base, and within it lies the ganache with its malty depth. The spirit brings warmth and a hint of smoke, while the citrus fruit lays a fresh touch over it that brightens everything. Cream binds the two into a velvety center that slowly melts on the tongue. Spicy, fruity, velvety – this is how a bar tastes that you reach for after a meal rather than in between.

Whisky, liqueur and cream

For the filling, Berger stirs light milk chocolate and cream with real whisky and orange liqueur into a creamy ganache and encases it in dark chocolate. That way the spirit stays in the center, protected by the bittersweet shell.

Cocoa mass, raw cane sugar and cocoa butter form the dark shell; the filling gets its character from light milk chocolate, spirit, liqueur and cream. So the bittersweet shell stands against a mild center, and malt and citrus come through right in between. No flavoring as a substitute, but real spirit in the cream.

Holding two spirits in one ganache without one swallowing the other is the real work. If you like the fruit without alcohol, you'll find it in the dark chocolate with orange among our chocolate bars.

Filled bars from Lofer

Filled bars with fine spirits have been among the specialties of Berger Feinste Confiserie in Lofer for a good 30 years. Every ganache is stirred in-house there.

Hubert and Christine Berger started out in 1994 in a garage in Salzburg's Saalach Valley; today the company has around 100 employees and nine shops. Varieties with spirits call for a delicate touch, because too much alcohol masks the cocoa and too little gets lost, just as Christine and Hubert have practiced it from the very beginning. Another variety with a spirit is the milk chocolate with blueberry gin.

With a single malt and a cigar

The bar holds 100 g of filled chocolate, for breaking into pieces and sharing. With a glass of malt, a strong coffee or to round off a meal, the spicy bar is especially lovely. Stored cool and dry, away from strongly scented neighbors in the cupboard, the shell and center keep their shape.

A single malt echoes the filling with its own malt, and after a long evening the bar stands ready to go with an espresso. With a cigar or a glass of port, too, the bar really shines. As a gift for malt lovers, the bar goes down well, as does the rest of the Berger range with its filled and plain varieties.