Has anyone out there ever felt a strong craving for a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup but, upon recognising said craving, thought “No! I’m too snazzy, too smart, too sophisticated, too savvy for a superfluous saccharine selection from such a standard supplier as Hershey’s”?
Well, my friends, I have the perfect chocolate-peanut-butter bar replacement for you. With its expensive price tag, hard-to-find exclusivity, and elegant interpretation of roasted peanuts and milk chocolate, Vosges’ Organic Peanut Butter Bonbon Bar is guaranteed to please the inner peanut butter bourgeois in all of us.
Vosges Organic Peanut Butter Bonbon Bar
The upmarket Reese's?
What’s more stellar than milk chocolate? Deep milk chocolate. Not superficial milk chocolate, or sparkly pink car-driving chocolate. Milk chocolate so deep that it will listen to you talk about the dream you had last night, and afterwards will read aloud the poem it wrote about your beautiful hair.
Luckily for Vosges, this truly is not your average cloyingly sweet milk chocolate. It’s a little bit dusky and a little bit malty, with just a hint of brown sugar to round the flavour out.
Hey there pretty lady, whatcha got in the bag?
What’s more suave than sea salt with chocolate? Two types of sea salt, from two different geographical areas. The Himalayas, and the Murray River (Australia represent!), to be precise. I’m assuming the Himalayan sea salt is what gives the peanut butter it’s mineral-y salty umami edge, and that the Murray River salt comprises the delicate and floral flakes perched on the underside of the chocolate.
So I was going to call this the peanut butter chocolate Stonehenge, then I realised it bore no resemblance to Stonehenge. At all. But segue - I'm in London!
And last but not least, what’s more swankified than peanut butter? Organic peanut butter. The kind that tastes of pure roasted peanuts, not of peanuts mixed around with all kinds of oils, sugars, and emulsifiers. The kind that, together with not-too-sweet chocolate, makes for an intense chocolate peanut butter experience that is more earthy, bitter, and savoury than any Reese’s product I’ve ever come across.
And for all my taking-of-the-mickey, this is really quite an enjoyable treat. In the words of H.CarryOn, my London travel-compadre, this bar is “salty salty goodness”.
And if you can’t trust the views of two Australian Hannahs, whom can you trust?
I would trust these two particular hannahs with my LIFE!
The other Hannah’s chocolate review makes it to the blog! The combination of your two opinions both excites me and makes me jealous of your combined London/UK adventures. Hope you’re having a great time.
I would totally buy this chocolate based on the Hannah x 2 recommendation, except for the peanut factor
I love the sound of salty salty goodness, particularly if there is peanut butter involved. Nom!
I saw this at Whole Foods just last weekend! I was -so- tempted to buy, but had already broken the bank with my pre-blizzard shopping. It was my first trip to Charlottesville’s Whole Foods, in fact, and I’m unsure whether I’ll be a regular. Not everything in life has to be organic — at those prices, anyway. I’ll stick to the garden-variety healthy at Harris Teeter.
But that aside, I plan to buy this chocolate! Soon! But late enough for my palate to be cleared of this late night spoonful of expensive and organic Whole Foods honey-almond butter.
Oh, and love the Reese’s alliteration, by the way.
I love this combination of flavours.. well I’ve tried peanut butter and nutella together on toast… but I have never added pink Himalayan salt to it
Holy macaron *picks up jaw off floor* All I can say is COME TO MAMA!
Hannah, as discussed I find the combination of chocolate and peanuts singularly inedible. I am intrigued by the chocolate brand though. Clearly French influenced styling, but I’m not surprised to see that it is actually American. I checked out their website- um, ergh, not so sure about some of it. Did you buy any of their more exotic and distinctive flavours? Bacon, mushroom or plaintain? I’m really not sure what to make of those. Have been still trawling inadequate shops here in the hope of finding something exotic. No hope. Ah well, Canberra next week- onward and upward.
I’m not above a little slumming with the Reese’s every now and then (my mother-in-law used bags of mini-Reese’s as packing material for our Christmas gifts!) but that looks WAY better. And I would certainly try a bacon or mushroom chocolate… even though the one other mushroom chocolate I’ve tried was pretty nasty.
L-Izzle: Aww!
Ash: We are having a lovely time – even if the other Hannah wishes you were here so that you could go to a war museum with her!
Theresa: The taste of salty salty goodness is even better
Lauren: Oh, I so love flavoured nut butters! We’re sorely lacking in them in Aus. I highly recommend you add this chocolate to the Dark Mo’s on your Valentine’s Day list… and report back, stat!
P.S. Maybe I should have written my thesis in alliteration?
Shellie: Well, as long as you didn’t add table salt like some sort of heathen, I think we can trust your taste appreciation of the combination
Lorraine: *hands back jaw* You’ll be needing that for your blog-funtimes! Wouldn’t do for me to get in the way of your own eating adventures!
Louise: I’ve tried pretty much every Vosges bar! Mostly pre-blog, though have re-tried a few recently that may make it here eventually. I find them very hit and miss – some are great, some completely fail to taste of what they proclaim to. Can’t wait to read about your own chocolate discoveries on your blog post-Canberra!
Camille: My friend sent me a huge bag of the dark mini Reese’s last year, and they were gone very, very quickly. Without sharing. The bacon bar works suprisingly well, though I’ve found that if you go in expecting lots of meaty flavour, it’s mostly just salty and smoky, but if you expect just salty, suddenly it’s crazy meat-like. And sadly the mushroom bar was a huge fail for me – did not taste of mushroom in the slightest, and I got about two smidgens of walnut in the entire bar!
Ooh, Imperial War Museum with all its lovely multiple sites. Now I really, really wanna be in London!
Who cares about being snazzy, smart, sophisticated, or savvy when there’s Reese’s peanut butter cups involved! Chocolate and peanut butter… be still my heart… wow.
Agnes: You make a very good point
It’s pretty much the most delicious combination ever, up there with salt and caramel!
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