So simple but still delicious
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During my last shopping trip to Costco I decided to load up on seasonal Christmas treats to review. These Hamlet Crispy Belgian Chocolate Thins can be found in the Christmas chocolate/seasonal aisle. At the store I went to the Christmas aisle was near the back of the store, by the refrigerated cheese and meat section.
Taste
These are really simple and not exactly the most exciting or fanciest chocolate available for Christmas but they are pretty tasty. They’re a very thin, oval shaped, slightly curved piece of Belgian milk chocolate with littles bit of puffed rice throughout the chocolate. So very plain and simple yet extremely tasty. The milk chocolate tastes high quality and the little bits of puff riced add a nice extra bit of crunchy texture and flavor. If you’re a fan of really good milk chocolate or enjoy CRUNCH chocolate bars you’ll like these.
Cost
I paid $6.99 Canadian for the 375 gram box of Costco Hamlet Crispy Belgian Chocolate Thins, this contains three separate 125 gram boxes.
Convenience
These can be enjoyed alone but I think they’re better used for dessert decorations or toppers. For example you can serve these on a slice of cheesecake, use them on top of a sundae or bowl of ice cream, you could decorate a trifle or cake with the crispy Belgian chocolate thins or use them on mousse. So many different ways to use them. The best before date is about a year from the date purchased.
Nutrition
12 Belgian thins is 220 calories, 13 grams of fat, 23 grams of carbohydrates, three grams of protein, 19 grams of sugar, 45 mg of sodium and one gram of fibre. The first ingredient listed is of course sugar! These aren’t exactly healthy but one or two definitely won’t hurt and will satisfy your chocolate craving.
These definitely aren’t very exciting but the chocolate is great and they’re overall very tasty. I think I’d stock up on these if I were going to be making a bunch of desserts over the holidays and needed little delicious chocolate garnishes.
Taste: 8/10
Cost: 9/10
Convenience: 10/10
Nutrition: 0/10
Do you make any desserts over the holidays that you could use these for?
I purchased 6 boxes of 540g (4x135g) and found that 2 of the boxes had only 3x135g packs in them…..really surpising since I have been purchasing these from Costco for a long time and never experienced it in the past.
Only in costco at Xmas. Out of stock even on line the rest of the ad. Why.
Where can I buy more? Really loved it.
Most likely at Costco again around Christmas time!
They’re so good! My 96 year old Covid positive grandma was eating and enjoying them on the zoom call we had with her this week.
Funny I passed these by but now that you’ve described them with the crisps, that is 100% my jam. Thanks! I think I will stick to just eating them as adding them to something else just means more weight gain this season…