Review: Lotus Biscoff Milk Chocolate Bar

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Like many Americans who grew up woefully behind on international sweets, my first introduction to the magical world of speculoos was through Trader Joe’s Cookie Butter. It was definitely a where-have-you-been-all-my-life moment.

Speculoos spread, aka cookie butter, is–for the uninitiated–basically what happened when someone ate some peanut butter and was like, “yeah, it’s alright, but you know what would make it better? If it was made of cookies. JUST. COOKIES.” And that mad genius was some Belgian dude who created speculoos spread. 

Lotus Biscoff, a Belgian company, made the original speculoos spread out of their distinctive speculoos cookies, which are crispy and lightly spiced. They have now deigned to grace us with further Biscoff creations in the form of chocolate bars. 

Speculoos spread, on its own, is already as compulsively eatable as it is bad for you. I only made the mistake of buying Trader Joe’s Cookie Butter a few times before I realized I literally could not stop myself from eating the entire jar. At least, when it’s in chocolate bar form, there is some limit to how much gorging you can do.

Because it IS delicious and you WILL huff it like Johnny Depp did a brick of opium in that movie about Jack the Ripper (and, let’s face it, probably real-life Johnny Depp, too). 

There are several varieties of Biscoff chocolate bars, but I was only interested in milk chocolate. Dark chocolate seemed wrong. White chocolate seemed wrong. But milk chocolate seemed so right, and it was. The creamy milk chocolate. The creamy speculoos with little crispy biscuit bits. In case you weren’t sure, creamy and sweet is my favorite kind of chocolate.

The packaging is quite nice, as well. It’s wrapped in gold foil and that classic heavy Biscoff paper, giving it kind of a nostalgic feel.

The Verdict

For people who aren’t a fan of super sweet things it might not be great, but the Lotus Biscoff Milk Chocolate bar has a big thumbs up from me. Speculoos fans will not be disappointed!

Unfortunately, they appear to have been discontinued in the US, but as far as I can tell they are still available in western Europe. Americans can currently get them on Amazon for an inflated price.

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