Moo Free, Plamil or Celtic? Dairy-free faux-milk chocolate advent calendars from the leading vegan chocolate makers. You've got just two more weekends to buy your calendars before the start of advent. The choice this year is better than ever and you can pick your favourite brand of milky chocolate to enjoy over the advent period. We do like to pick a winner though, so on with the Advent Calendar Taste Test!
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| Left to Right: Moo Free, Plamil, Celtic |
Inside those three packs, the chocolates look quite similar. The Celtic chocs are smaller, but otherwise the windows of the three calendars hide similar chocolate tablets, each embossed with a christmassy image. Each of these looks like dairy milk chocolate - paler and creamier coloured than dark chocolate. What we found quite amazing was that despite these three chocolates having very similar ingredients, the tastes are really distinctive.
Moo Free
Organic & Fairtrade
The sweetest tasting of the three and possibly the most appealing to kids. The rice powder used as the milk alternative does have an identifiable taste in this chocolate but it's pleasant and lends the chocolate its convincing milkyness. The most like dairy milk chocolate. Creamy, melt in the mouth chocolate.
Organic & Fairtrade
The sweetest tasting of the three and possibly the most appealing to kids. The rice powder used as the milk alternative does have an identifiable taste in this chocolate but it's pleasant and lends the chocolate its convincing milkyness. The most like dairy milk chocolate. Creamy, melt in the mouth chocolate.
Plamil
Organic & FairtradeThe more grown up taste of Plamil's chocolate is quite different to Moo Free's. This tastes more like mild dark chocolate, with no hint of the rice powder taste. It's actually the most chocolatey-tasting chocolate of the three. The chocolate is harder and slightly less creamy than Moo Free. Very good, classic chocolate.
Celtic
By far the best value on offer, but the pack and the choccies are smaller, and you don't get organic or fair-trade ingredients. This chocolate is different again with that distinctive flavour of Celtic's faux-milk recipe. The chocolate has very lovely overtones of caramel and vanilla. Letting a piece of this melt in your mouth reveals the flavours slowly. Unique, caramelly milky chocolate.
Footnote: Ingredients
Here are the ingredients panels from the packs we reviewed:
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| Plamil |
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I am allergic to milk & I've gone for the Celtic (I also brought it last year). It's easier for me to get hold of as Sainsburys stock them and the price is good.
ReplyDeleteWe've been told about Hotel Chocolat and Montezuma both offering vegan advent calendars too, so the choice this year is fantastic
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