A Return to B.T. McElrath, Or The Salty Dog

Way back in January, when I bought, ate, enjoyed, and reviewed B.T. McElrath’s Chile Limon bar, I also picked up, ate, enjoyed, but didn’t review the same company’s Salty Dog bar. I’ll probably soon have to admit that I can’t blog every chocolate I eat, but for the moment I’m holding onto my stubborn will-to-succeed in order to bring you tales of…

B.T. McElrath’s Salty Dog Chocolate Bar

With thanks to M.HeartsofPalm for the colourful backdrop.

As you may or may not be able to see on the packaging above, this is a 70% dark chocolate combined with butter toffee pieces and sea salt. The butter toffee is mixed through the bar, but the sea salt is sprinkled on its underside. Consequently, while the toffee comes across strongly in the aroma, the first flavour to hit is the salt.

And it seems I opened the chocolate and moved it to a different location.

Once the initial shock of saltiness wears off, the delicate salt flakes simpy serve to broaden and de-cloyify (that’s from the Hannah’s Imaginary Word-of-the-Day Calendar sitting on my imaginary bedside table) the sweetness of the chocolate. Unlike the Moderne Toffee bar, this Salty Dog lacks a strong buttery flavour but makes up for it with a taste not unlike marshmallows and demerara sugar. The toffee pieces in the bar are also far smaller than in the Moderne chocolate, and as such the overall taste is less “chocolate with toffee” than “toffee-flavoured chocolate”.

Mmm, teeth marks. More importantly, toffee bits!

The chocolate itself isn’t overly amazing, but it has a nice sweet richness which plays off well against the toffee pieces and the salt. It’s incredibly munchable, without providing the waves of contrasting flavours that made the Chile Limon bar somewhat of an adventure. It’s still a fun chocolate, but not as much fun as, say, sitting in the sun underneath the Eiffel Tower on a (relatively) warm spring day, eating both pots of a two-pack of coffee ice cream…

Happiness.

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