Choco Porn: Sweets from Scandinavia

** I went on a five day vacation to Denmark and Sweden in mid-April 2014.  This post is part of my Scandinavian posts.  Please note: I pay for all my expenses when I go on trips so I write my opinions freely, solely based on my own experience.**


I am addicted to chocolates (and other foodstuff) in a manner that is not too common.  I don´t really like sweets much.  I prefer salty, calorie-laden chips over candies and chocolates,  but I still have this uncontrollable urge to buy (hoard) chocolates and sweets from the places I visit.  I suppose, it has to do with the fact that although I am not a sweets lover, my family is.  And then there are my clients who do enjoy new items to try out.  It also helps that  for the most  part, chocolates and sweets have  long shelf life.


I even enjoy researching chocolates brands.  Take my recent trip to Denmark and Sweden.  Weeks prior to my trip  I looked out for brands to buy.  I do not buy those high-end bean-to-bar gourmet chocolates but choose homegrown chocolate brands that have become local favorites.  Much like how Nips, Curly Tops, Serg´s and Fibisco Mallows are the reliable chocolate fix and the sentimental favorites of generations in my country, the Philippines.

The only exception to my chocolate buying rule is when I go to Lyon, France where I hoard on Bernachon, the expensive but totally worth it chocolate that, to my biased mind, is the best chocolate in the world.


I brought back a few kilos of Scandinavian chocolates from my trip.  Most are for TLCShop and some are for the family.

FROM SWEDEN:  MARABOU CHOCOLATES

Marabou has so many variants!  Though Marabou is available in Denmark and I suppose the rest of the Scandinavian countries,  I bought my stash in Malmo, Sweden because the prices of goods there are cheaper than in Denmark.

FROM NORWAY: FREIA CHOCOLATES

 Months before my trip to Scandinavia,  a client asked  if I can source Freia Kirklover Chocolates for her.  But these are not really available in Madrid.  And even as I checked shops in both Denmark and Sweden for these goodies, I couldn't find them so imagine my glee when I saw them at one of the dutyfree shops in Copenhagen as I was waiting to board my plane back to Madrid!   These are the mosty expensive chocolates in my stash.  The 250 grams king size bars cost 5€ each.


FROM DENMARK: ANTHON BERG AND TOM´S

Anthon Berg is famous for its liquor chocolates.  The brand, as in most items in Denmark,  is surprisingly expensive.  But it would feel wrong not to buy some Danish chocs, so I bought a bag of chocolates spiked with champagne, madeira  and muscat.

Tom´s Guld Bars in Licorice  and Hazelnut.  Tom´s and Anthon Berg are owned by Denmark´s largest confectionery company. 

Of the chocolates I bought,  I only set aside the Daim Bars and the Maribou Nougat Bars.  The rest will be sent to the Philippines.  The Daim bars are as delicious as I remembered them. The slightly burnt, crisp toffee  covered by a thin layer of chocolate.  The Maribou Nougat bar has a almond nougat center.  The chocolate is smooth, creamy is not too sweet so it isn´t really hard to finish a 100 gram bar in one sitting ( Guilty!).