Koko Black Chocolate

Had a bit of problem uploading a video for the Moomba Waterfest, so I posted this first.

Koko Black is a chocolatier which has a branch about 10 minutes walk from IH, on Lygon Street. Lygon is actually famous for Italian food and gelato (ice-cream, one even has durian flavour!), but anyway this post is a chocolate one.






So anyway I bought 8 chocolates from Koko Black (mostly dark chocolate) and they are:

Belgian Truffle: Chocolate powder on the top. Creamy interior, a soft (but not too soft)exterior. Great texture.





Mint: Thin layer of chocolate with mint cream inside. Tastes like After-Eight, in fact I prefer After-Eight.





Java Dark: Coffee cream inside, with a hint of alcohol. Nice! the coffee wasn't overpowering, and I could still taste the chocolate. Wonderful combo.





Raspberry Ganache: A bit like Java Dark in that there's a filling and a chocolate exterior. I prefer Java Dark though, because I don't really like the berry taste.





Koko Black 44&74 (I think it's called Pure Black as well): The name's because of the cocoa content. Brilliant!! The "nut" on top isn't really a nut, it's chocolate. The phrase "better than sex" could have been invented for this.





Baileys: Nice creamy filling. The alcohol wasn't bitter, the choc taste was still there, nice warm alcohol feeling after eating. The taste of the Baileys was brought out properly, enough to taste and enjoy, but not strong enough to overpower the chocolate.





Creole Dark: Nice, slight tinge of coffee. relatively average but still better than anything I've tasted in Malaysia.







Hazelnut Crisp: Another highly recommended one. Forgot to take a pic of this though. There's a thin crispy wafer top layer, with the usual creamy interior. There's a strong hazelnut taste in the cream which is really good.


Top recommendations:


Note: If there were 2 versions, i.e milk choc and dark choc, I tasted the dark choc version


1) Koko Black 44&74 (may not be suitable for people who don't like dark choc)


2) Baileys


3) Java Dark


4) Hazelnut Crisp


4) Belgian Truffle (not dark choc)