Pink Pineapple

Pink Pineapple by Lakrids by Bülow with pineapple in a pink shell

Pink Pineapple by Lakrids by Bülow is a sweet liquorice core in white chocolate with pineapple, encased in a delicate pink sugar shell. The brand's tropical summer variety, available only during the warm months.

Pink Pineapple is the tropical chocolate liquorice from Lakrids by Bülow in Denmark. Many consider pineapple to be a fruit that can hardly be improved upon; yet here it meets liquorice and white chocolate, offered in small and regular jar sizes.

A yellow fruit in a pink shell

The name brings the color and the fruit together, even though they have little to do with each other by nature.

Beetroot and beta-carotene give the sugar shell its pink tone, while the fruit underneath provides the flavor. This turns the jar into a piece of summer even before anyone lifts the lid, and on the shelf, it stands out as the brightest point next to the yellow and green of its siblings.

Tropical liquorice with a tangy edge

The sugar shell cracks on the first bite, revealing the white chocolate underneath, which is creamy and mild.

Then comes the pineapple with its bright, exotic sweetness. Lemon and malic acid act as counterparts, and the core balances it all with its calm spiciness. A few thousand kilometers lie between pineapple and liquorice, yet neither sounds like a compromise in this sphere.

How the juice gets onto the sphere

Fresh produce would have no place in this sphere, as its water content would cause the chocolate to turn gray.

The juice is therefore spray-dried: it falls as a fine mist through hot air, the water evaporates in flight, and what remains is a powder in which the aroma is more concentrated than in the fruit itself. What arrives is the scent upon opening and the sweetness with its tangy edge. None of the mess that a ripe pineapple leaves on a cutting board remains.

One summer long, then gone again

The core is slow-boiled and therefore particularly soft, and that is exactly the difference compared to bagged liquorice.

Rice flour instead of wheat flour binds it and makes it gluten-free, while molasses keeps it supple for weeks. Lakrids has so far only offered Pink Pineapple during the warm months; after that, it disappears from the shelf until the next season.

Of all the varieties from the brand, this is the most playful, and anyone who thinks liquorice is a serious matter will be proven wrong here. Chill the jar before serving, as this makes the tropical fruit stand out most clearly.

Pink Pineapple finds its match in a glass of Prosecco, because the effervescence picks up the sweetness and the wine's acidity keeps the sphere bright. On a summer table between melon and cold roast, this jar needs no further occasion.

As a gift, it works without wrapping, because the color speaks for itself through the glass, and with Lakrids, the closed lid keeps the sugar coating dry for months. Heat, on the other hand, makes it sticky and takes away its bright snap.

The summer edition also includes LEMON with a salty core and the large Summer Mixed, in which both come together. In the small SUMMER Selection Box, Pink Pineapple sits next to three other summer varieties, and the complete range from Lakrids by Bülow can be found in the brand overview. The small jar holds 115 grams, the medium 270 grams.