I was in Target the other day with a friend, and saw a new line of Pepperidge Farm cookies, including new Lemon Milanos. My friend and I both reacted the same way: eccch. Thinking about it, I realized that I’ve never seen a product before that combined chocolate with lemon. Chocolate and orange? Sure, that’s everywhere. Chocolate and lime? Not as common, but I remember a lime hard candy with a liquid chocolate center that I lived (“Lime Parfaits,” I think they were called); and one of my favorite desserts is Key lime pie with an Oreo crust.
But chocolate and lemon just doesn’t sound right. Yet now I have an urge to pick up a bag of these cookies to find out for sure. What do you think?
It’s not as common as chocolate and orange, as you say, but it’s good. I’ve had really good dark chocolate pieces filled with lemon creme, and dark chocolate dipped candied lemon is excellent. Our favorite local cake baker makes a killer lemon cake with chocolate mousse filling and chocolate ganache frosting.
I don’t think I’d like milk chocolate with lemon, but dark chocolate has sufficient bitterness to balance the tart lemon taste (or enhance the slight bitterness of candied lemon peel).
I’d go for those Milanos.
ETA: Nearly forgot: Ice cold lemonade with warm chocolate chip cookies on a summer afternoon. Mmmm.
I voted “never tried it, never will” but only because there was no “it doesn’t sound good but I might taste it”. It puts me in mind of drinking orange juice right after brushing one’s teeth, but if someone were to offer me one I’d take a bite.
Super dark, almost bitter, chocolate and lemon is a delectable combo. There is a local candy maker in the city where I grew up that makes lemon cremes, whipped so full of air that they melt in your mouth, wrapped in dark, bitter chocolate. Gosh, I love those things. Whenever I go back home for a visit, I make it a point to stop by their store and grab a few.
I’ve also seen lemon jelly candies cloaked in dark chocolate that were good. And I really don’t care for jelly candy at all. Another good one is the reception sticks that you can buy individually wrapped. They used to be frequently available at the front cash registers of restaurants back in the day when one paid at the register.
I don’t like it as much as chocolate and raspberry or chocolate and orange, but it’s all right. I have been known to spread lemon curd on Oreos, f’rinstance.
Many candy assortments have lemon cream chocolates, so it’s not really a novel combination. I’m not sure if I’d buy them, but that’s because you can’t improve a regular Milano.
Never tried it, but I wouldn’t refuse to if offered. I do like chocolate and orange. Though being diabetic I tend to horde my random snack allowance for stuff I like normally, someone mentioned a really light and airy lemon cream in dark chocolate that sounds interesting.
I prefer it to orange and chocolate. I made a rapid infusion (with N[sub]2[/sub]O) of cocoa nibs in vodka. It was tasty with some lemon juice and just a touch of simple syrup. Recipe from Dave Arnold of Cooking Issues fame.
Lindt makes a dark chocolate/lemon bar that’s surprisingly good. It doesn’t call out the cacao percentage on the packaging, so I’m guessing somewhere in the 40-50% range.