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Slovak chocolate reviews

This page is one of a series of international chocolate reviews.

A. Opavio Diskíto Hvěsdičky

A packet of six darling little baked biscuits, each with a smooth chocolate nine-pointed star visible on top. The chocolate goes about halfway through the biscuit by depth before its termination in a very thin layer of white cream (shown far thicker on the packaging), and the biscuit itself is of the sweet shortbread variety. I bet these would be delicious with tea or coffee, if I liked tea or coffee.

B. Orion Banány

A lush green jungle of a wrapper for this banana-based chocolate bar, dark and smooth, with a slight curve in homage to its eponym. The chocolate is rather crumbly, and the yellow jelly-like filling smells and tastes convincingly like banana. (I couldn't read enough to tell whether it contained any.) I'd prefer a less chewy texture; it reminded me of Jim.

C. Coconut Corny

Corny is made up of desiccated coconut combined with tiny spheres of biscuit. A thin milk chocolate coating covers the base and sides but leaves the top surface bare. The overall texture is strange, soft with a dullish crunch, reminiscent of the sweet pastry crust on a mince pie. Enjoyable.

D. Figaro Rumba

This looks like a very luxurious lunchbox bar, but it would probably be illegal to pop it in next to your kid's Dairylea because the rich, stiffish dark chocolatey centre contains rum. It has a dark, heavy flavour. I don't like liqueur chocolates with liquid centres, but this isn't bad.

E. Nestlé Chocapic

The wrapper encourages us to visit TweeBow, an overblown Flash site where one can spend barcodes on games and trinkets for a bouncy character. Lucy falls in love with this immediately and we take to following the one other user we can find in the deserted game world, who silently consents to be our "buddy". I didn't like Chocapic much. It's a moist, chewy rice crispie cake bar with a stingy layer of white chocolate on the bottom, and it tastes bland.

F. Orion Kaštany Ledové

A traditional filled-segment chocolate bar with a dark, sweet truffle fondant in each piece, not unlike the limited edition Cadbury's Caramel that had a chocolate-flavoured centre. The bar seems rather small, but considering its richness that might be for the best.

G. Figaro Tatiana

With its luxurious swirls and swooping handwriting, you could mistake this wrapper for Galaxy's in a poor light. Tatiana is in four big rounded segments, each containing a whole hazelnut and some praline. I'm in two minds about this: the milk chocolate is very nice, if a tiny bit too sweet, but the hazelnut has a raw, bleached taste. Perhaps I'm just missing the raisins from Fruit & Nut.

H. Opavia Vlnky

Like Tronky (not sure if they're actually related), but bigger and uncompromisingly vowelless. It engenders the same unpleasant feeling of eating a dry ice-cream cone without the ice-cream, and the chocolatey filling tastes fake. (It isn't, but wafer seems to do that to me.) It has crumbled everywhere.

I. 3 Bit Inverso

Wow, this looks weird. It's a chunky, chocolate-coated biscuit bar, but all the chocolate is white except for the base, which is milk. (I assume the non-Inverso version has them the other way round.) There are four segments, delineated by the subtlest of scored lines, and each bears a large digit 3. The centre is a pleasing chocolate fondant on a thinnish biscuit base that gives it more weight and substance than a pure chocolate bar. Elements of Trio and Gold bars are in evidence here.