Leibniz Pick Up!: Choco & caramel

Product name: Leibniz Pick Up!: Choco & caramel
Purchase details: £0.65 for a 28g biscuit (monstersweets.co.uk)
Calories: 138 per biscuit
Country of origin: Germany 

It’s time for the last of my Leibniz Pick Up! reviews, and the one I was most looking forward to trying – Choco & caramel.

Continuing the sandwich biscuit theme, this variation was most like the Choco & milch since its milk chocolate bar centre contained a hidden layer of caramel. This was represented on the wrapper by an attractive looking caramel stream, along with an accompanying product image. 

The product’s outward appearance was identical to the Choco & milch and Choco versions but I’m afraid to say that I was slightly disappointed by the presentation of the caramel. On breaking apart the biscuit, this looked like a far thinner and stringy layer than the gooey image portrayed on the wrapper, and it almost looked like some kind of orange flavoured filling.

The Choco & caramel biscuit smelt different to the other varieties which seemed to be a result of the caramel. It was quite a dark, sweet scent and was slightly odd.

Again, the biscuit used was like a sweetened rich tea, with some extra flavour added by the caramel-filled chocolate. Overall, this was a slightly sweeter offering which seemed to be due to the caramel but, aside from that, this didn’t seem to have an obvious taste or add much additional flavour which was a shame. Whilst the chocolate's flavour was still evident, it wasn't as strong as the other varieties, and this also seemed to be a result of the caramel.

 

Texturally, this variety was most like the Choco & milch due to the softer centre, but the thin layer of caramel was really slippery which meant that, when biting into the biscuit, the two layers of the sandwich slid apart. I didn't consider this to be an issue - it was just something a bit different!

The Choco & caramel definitely wasn’t my favourite of the Leibniz Pick Up! range but its combination of biscuit and chocolate, as well as a generally sweet flavour, did mean it was still pleasant.I certainly wouldn't have any complaints about having another!

Appearance: 6.5/10
Aroma: 6.5/10
Taste: 7/10
Texture: 7/10
Overall score: 6.75/10

Leibniz Pick Up!: Choco

Product name: Leibniz Pick Up!: Choco
Purchase details: £0.65 for a 28g biscuit (monstersweets.co.uk)
Calories: 143 per biscuit
Country of origin: Germany 

Next up in my Leibniz Pick Up! reviews is this Choco sandwich biscuit.  

This product was the same as the Choco & milch variety but with a solid milk chocolate filling instead of one with a milk core.

This Choco version was represented by a deeper blue strip on the wrapper and, combined with the yellow and the red that were also present, it took me right back to my childhood with the use of primary colours.

Once again, the biscuit and chocolate both provided a pleasant smell with the chocolate edging it in terms of strength.

The golden biscuit was really crispy whilst the chocolate had the same texture as the white version used in the Pick Up!: Black 'n white – a good, solid piece of chocolate. I preferred it this way to having the soft filling that was present in the Choco & milch.

I loved how thick the chocolate layer was in this Pick Up! Choco since it provided a really chocolatey and milky flavour. It also didn’t have the same sweetness that the Choco & milch had which I, again, preferred.

On paper, this Choco biscuit wasn’t as exciting as the other varieties in the Leibniz Pick Up! range but, actually, it worked really well. I’m also loving the chocolate-centred sandwich concept rather than the more usual chocolate coated biscuit. Well done, Bahlsen! 

Appearance: 7/10
Aroma: 7/10
Taste: 7.5/10
Texture: 7.5/10
Overall score: 7.25/10

Leibniz Pick Up!: Choco & milch

Product name: Leibniz Pick Up!: Choco & milch
Purchase details: £0.65 for a 28g biscuit (monstersweets.co.uk)
Calories: 145 per biscuit
Country of origin: Germany 

It’s time for the second of my Leibniz Pick Up! reviews and tonight it’s the turn of the Choco & milch variety.

This product was the same basic idea as the Black 'n white version but consisted of plain biscuit rather than chocolate and contained, according to Monster Sweets, a ‘delicious choco and milk cream filling’. The wrapper was very much on the same theme but contained a strip of baby blue, rather than black, and had an illustration of a square of chocolate and a glass of milk which, coincidentally, are two of my favourite things.

On opening the product, I was greeted by a smooth-looking, golden biscuit sandwich which had the product name imprinted on the top. Whilst the Pick Up!: Black 'n white had a white chocolate bar running down the centre, this one had milk chocolate. After initially being concerned that, somehow, the milk layer had been forgotten about, I was relieved to find that this was entirely cased within the chocolate and there was actually a lot of it.  

The main smell emanating from the biscuit was the chocolate which had a creamy and almost coconutty aroma. There were also hints of the biscuit itself within this.

The biscuit had a sweetened rich tea flavour and, whilst there was visually more of a milk filling than a chocolate one, the chocolate had quite a dark, strong flavour. Combined, the central bar was smooth, soft, creamy and very sweet. I did find it difficult, though, to pick up exactly which part of the flavour was coming from the chocolate and which bit was from the milk. However, it did seem that the extent of the sweetness was down to the milky core.

As for the texture, this was very similar to the Black 'n white, although the centre was softer due to the milk filling.

I thought this was another tasty biscuit from Bahlsen and I really enjoyed the combination of plain biscuits that allowed the main flavour to come from the centre. 

Appearance: 7.5/10
Aroma: 7/10
Taste: 7/10
Texture: 7/10
Overall score: 7.13/10

Leibniz Pick Up!: Black 'n white

Product name: Leibniz Pick Up!: Black ‘n white
Purchase details: £0.65 for a 28g biscuit (monstersweets.co.uk)
Calories: 148 per biscuit
Country of origin: Germany 

Exciting times – I’ve recently done another order from Monster Sweets so I now have lots of delicious goodies to review! Tonight I’m reviewing the first of these products – the Leibniz Pick Up!: Black ‘n white (once again, I’m resisting the temptation to sort out the missing apostrophe!).

 

This product was made by Bahlsen and came in a striking yellow and black wrapper. Since none of the product information was written in English, I couldn’t be certain of the product description, but I knew from a basic online translation that it was a milk chocolate sandwich biscuit with a white chocolate filling. 

After adding this biscuit to my order, I was contacted by Monster Sweets to let me know that, unfortunately, their latest box from the supplier had been damaged in transit and so their biscuits were a bit broken, but they kindly added an extra couple onto my order by way of apology. Obviously this means that my biscuits didn’t look as attractive as non-broken ones, but I have based my review on what they would have looked like. (I don’t see broken biscuits as a bad thing anyway...as my Mum always says: ‘it just means all the calories have fallen out’!)

As depicted on the wrapper, the chocolate biscuits were extremely dark (like the colour of an Oreo), whilst the filling was very light, and so it was clear why the product had been given the name ‘Black ‘n white’ – it was a nice contrast. The biscuits had ‘Pick Up!’ imprinted on the top and, due to the missing biscuit corners, I immediately noticed just how widespread and uniform the filling was. For some reason, I had been envisaging a cream-like filling which had white chocolate within it, but it turned out to be a full-on mini white chocolate bar!

The Black ‘n white Pick Up!s had a sweet aroma which seemed to come from the white chocolate. Unfortunately, though, this wasn’t strong. I tried some of the biscuit first and found it to be quite dry and very crispy. Whilst it was slightly chocolatey in flavour, it wasn’t overly so. I wasn’t actually able to try the white chocolate on its own since it was stuck so hard to the biscuit (I just couldn’t separate them!) but I did find that its flavour came through when combined with the biscuit. It wasn’t the best white chocolate I’ve ever eaten but it was certainly creamy and lovely and sweet.

What I loved about this product was how well the layers worked together and I enjoyed having a crunchy texture that surrounded a more solid one. Although the biscuit had been dry on its own, this was not an issue with the chocolate and, despite there only being one layer of chocolate and two layers of biscuit, the white chocolate was the main texture and I found it to be quite cooling.

To conclude, I did really enjoy the Leibniz Pick Up!: Black ‘n white. The flavours weren’t outstanding but, somehow, the combination really worked and it was a great little snack.

Appearance: 7/10
Aroma: 6.5/10
Taste: 7/10
Texture: 7.5/10
Overall score: 7/10