Today, we interrupt the tales of Melbourne Adventuring to bring you a story about a chocolate designed to be eaten for breakfast.
I mean, it’s chocolate with crispy bread mixed through. That means it’s pretty much toast with a smidgen of cocoa powder.
That means it’s almost breakfast. No, it is breakfast.
Right! Exactly! Breakfast chocolate! Chocolate breakfast! Hurrah!
Theo Bread and Chocolate Dark Chocolate
Hey look, it’s more pretty Theo Chocolate packaging! We like the Theo Chocolate packaging!
If you’re starting to think that I’m oddly over-excited right now, well… I do seem to be. However, it’s more an emotional anti-reaction to the fact that I have to work on Saturday, for the sixth day in a row, than it is legitimate joy.
Where were we? Oh yes. Bread chocolate. Chocolate that is comprised of cocoa beans, sugar, cocoa butter, French bread, butter, sea salt, and a vanilla bean. (Because we all know Australian bread, or Fijian bread, or Antartica[n?] bread, would just taste wrong.)
The aroma of this Theo Bread and Chocolate bar was quite intriguing, as mixed in with strong red berry notes was a hint of melted butter. A part of me thought I could also detect sourdough but, just between you and me, I probably wouldn’t have thought “sourdough” had I not known there was bread in the chocolate. Honesty: it’s what’s for dinner.
Upon taking a bite, my first thought was not flavour-related but texture-related, as this bar is crispy crispy crispy in a very unique way. I’ve had chocolate with rice crisps, chocolate with ground coffee, chocolate with toffee nuts… but nothing prepared me for the sharp, crouton-esque, tiny shards of brutal crunchiness that were embedded in this 70% chocolate blend. Had the bread pieces been bigger, they might have been like samurai swords in my mouth. Luckily, they were miniscule, and I therefore emerged unscathed from this chocolate-eating experience.
Taste-wise (“Finally!” I hear you shout), the chocolate in this bar is a bit too tangy for my liking, with notes of red currant, unripe raspberries, and pineapple coming forward strongly. Thankfully, the incredibly crunchy bread pieces do temper the sour edge to the chocolate somewhat, tasting nicely of buttery toasted croutons.
All in all, I found this chocolate to be an interesting experience of not-too-sweet chocolate, sour cacao notes, melted butter blended with wheat, and tanginess. Personally, though, I would rank the likes of Theo’s Hazelnut Crunch and Fig, Fennel and Almond chocolates far, far above this one.
Fact: There is a restaurant in DC called “Bread and Chocolate” and they serve breakfast.
They had a location in Eastern Market, but they shut down shortly before you visited with us, Hannah. But wouldn’t it have been great to flick your hair, put on your best jet-setting voice, and say, “Ah, yes, Bread and Chocolate on Pennsylvania Avenue, of course!”
Can I do that now anyway, and pretend I’m super cool? Of course, flicking my hair is likely to turn said hair into an afro, but let’s keep that a secret.
DC is simply too cool for words.
I agree with all your assessments, with the caveat that my palate merely registered “fruit,” rather than “red currant, unripe raspberries, and pineapple.”
Super taster I am not.
My favorite is the Coconut Curry, with Hazelnut Crunch in second. I looove that curry, almost ginger bready-y. I will probably buy some today, since I’ve been bribing myself into doing my pre-Taiwan research.
I’m not super taster either, Lauren, just incredibly well trained after years of eating multiple lots of chocolate every day
The things I do for y’all…
It’s funny you mention the Coconut Curry as your favourite, because after I wrote this I decided that I preferred the CC to the HC, but I couldn’t be bothered going back and editing the post. I feel like you’ve caught me out.
Oh, and chocolate bribes? Best motivation ever.
hmmm. I would find this too tangy based upon your assessment but I would love to have some of Lauren’s coconut curry. Sounds great.
I’ve linked to my review of the coconut curry in this post
Love it!
Mmm…what a genius flavor combination. Chocolate filled with crunchy croutons sounds amazing!
I’d happily have given you the rest of mine
Intriguing bread and chocolate. The only bread and chocolate combo I’ve had was toast with Nutella
The packaging is very cute. I’ve never tried this chocolate, I’m not even sure if i can get it where I live, but I have to track it down now.
I may or may not be eating a toasted english muffin spread with homebrand “choc hazelnut spread” right now. ZOMG!
If you can find this company, get the hazelnut crunch, coconut curry, and fig fennel almond! Soooo good.
cute package and what a bizarre idea – sort of like turning pain au chocolat inside out – but one I would love to try – that sucks that you have to work saturday – hope you get lots of lovely time in lieu
I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the inspiration! And I’m sure I would’ve loved it more if the chocolate itself had been more aligned to my sensibilities
Ah, yes, the upside of the work is the time in lieu. How short a trip to New Zealand would be worth it, do you think?
Blasted! You have been posting…why aren’t they coming to my gmail? Boooo, evil gmail. PS – loved the cute package on this chocolatey-bread-thingy.
Oh, Jamee, I’m so relieved you say that! I got quite worried at your last comment, because it seemed like you thought that a post every second day wasn’t enough, and I simply can’t manage more than that right now! Evil gmail indeed
So intriguing! When I saw the title of this, I thought the product was going to be bread-like but with cocoa. Like fruit bread but chocolate bread. So I was extra interested to see what it actually turned out to be! It’s a pity the taste wasn’t quite to your liking (I suspect the extra crispy texture may be not quite to mine
) but it certainly wins points in the unusual stakes.
I hope you don’t have to work next Saturday…
Intriguing and unusual definitely wins points in my mind too
Or should I say un-ewe-sual? (Oh, Kath and Kim flashbacks are glorious.)
Nope, thankfully no work next Saturday! Next weekend will be even more exhausting, but for all the right reasons – parties, grandparents’ anniversary, blog meet-ups… wheee!
wow intriguing! is this vegan??
Sadly no, and you can tell because I didn’t tag it vegan. There’s butter in the bread crumbs
YEAH BUTTER!!!
I really love this bar, I do. But I suppose the more unripe raspberries you throw at me, the more I’ll… be happy? Come back for more? Froth at the mouth? – I hope not.
Maybe my love for Theo Bread & Chocolate is partially due to those darned cute kitties! So cute (so kitties)! I do think I like Fig, Fennel & Almond best of their fantasy flavors series though.
Don’t get me wrong; I’d happily eat a dozen of these if you threw them my way! It’s just that I love the other Theo flavours more
Personally, I’m just lucky there aren’t any Theo chocolate with puppies on the wrapper, ’cause I’d probably end up begging people to smuggle them into Australia for me…
Wow – I’ve never heard of this! That flavor combo is incredibly…interesting? Haha. Too bad the flavor isn’t better all together but still cool that you got to try it!
Interesting is definitely a good word for this, though to be honest I’ve had even more bizarre flavours in my time
Chocolate adventures are the best kind of adventures 
Thanks for stopping by!
Chocolate for breakfast? That’s just POPPYCOCK!
I too knew that you already ate this chocolate… psychic powers galore!
We clearly pretty much share the same mind and thoughts… it’s AH-MAAAAAY-ZING!!
I saw that bar on sale this week and was so bummed when I saw that it had dairy in it! Oh well, can’t win them all.
I was really cranky too – it would be so easy for Theo to have left the butter out and made it vegan!
That sounds like an amazing combination! Is Theo chocolate based in Seattle? I remember my parents visiting there and going on a tour of the factory of something.
That sounds familiar, I think they are! You should do a factory tour yourself and tell me about it
What a wonderful combination of ingredients– thanks for posting!
Breakfast chocolate? Genius, I say! Poky sharp pieces of crouton sounds a little dangerous though – samurai swords is not what I’m usually looking for when it comes to chocolate. lol. And doesn’t French-anything make it instantly fancy? heh.
You’re completely right, Helen! French butter! French pastry! French coat-hangers! French socks! French doormats! French toothbrushes! Why, the world is so much more exciting to me now!
I had French nail clippers bought on the Champs Elysee. They were gold, not silver. Nothing says fancy like that. Those French!
And I bought a Pedi-egg in Paris! You and I, Louise, have the fanciest toiletries in the world
the package is awesomely cute! I can’t help myself to reach out for a piece/s of chocolate while reading this.
Dooooo iiiiiiit.
Oh wow, I’ve never heard of this chocolate brand before.. the flavour combinations are definitely original! Drooling at the thought of the one with fig, fennel and almond!
That’s one of my favourites
Oh, how I wish we had these in Australia!
Oh my! Bread chocolate? I must get my paws (pic of cat prompted) on some of this to try it!
Good luck! Let me know if you see it here in Aus!
Hurrrayyyy for chocolate breakfast , i love to think of fairies , chocolate and breakfast all at once and it makes me happy and makes me gay
Cute blog and happy to meet u Hannah!
Nice to meet you too! Thanks for popping by
We should all think of fairies and chocolate more often, I think 
I love the packaging too. Bread and chocolate is so a breakfast food- pain au chocolat, nutella on toast. Sadly this incarnation does sound a bit too much. I was getting worried at your mention of shards and brutal. Oh dear. It had so much promise.
It’s funny, Louise, because I think that had the chocolate itself been earthier and more to my liking, I would’ve loved the bar overall, rather than focusing on the brutal shards
I do believe that people who prefer red fruit notes in their chocolate would love this! I myself intend to stick with chocolate on toast 
Shards and tanginess notwithstanding, I’d gladly have that for breakfast. Every day.
With coffee, of course…..
Coffee is never optional!
I’ve tried a few Theo varieties and I liked this one simply because it was unique. I do remember being amazed at how crunchy the bread crumbs were though!
Super-duper crunchy, right? I’m envious of you having ready access to Theo!
Oooh, this chocolate sounds fabulous! I need to buy some!
Yes you do! And not just some, lots and lots and lots!
ohhh! I just fall in love with the packaging first. Is that okay? lol
Don’t worry, we’re together on that one – the packaging is what caught my eye first too
Bread chocolate? Wait – what?
And those cats kind of freak me out a bit… :p
It ain’t got nothing on bacon chocolate
And gosh, you’re the cat lady! You should be completely comfortable with anthropomorphised Egyptian-ish-looking felines!
heheheeee
OK…, what do I think of think of this chocolate bread business…., I’d definatly want to taste it, I mean it’s chocolate right. Aaahhh, call me old fashioned but I think I’m more your smother the bread with chocolatey goodness type…, but I’m intrigued. But the one with fig & almond…. (notice how I morphed out the fennel)…, I just don’t see things I don’t like (me & the fennel don’t get along).
Now…, pass me a slice of this chocy bread & stop being a hog Bestie
That’s okay! I’ll eat your fennel, and you can eat my orange and crystallised ginger. That’s what besties do for each other, I’m sure
I, too, was a little disappointed with this one. It had such great potential, but somehow doesn’t live up to its own promise.
And speaking of chocolate (although when are we not?) I saw some Bovetti bars in a Monoprix the other day, and I bought two. I wish I’d consulted your blog first and saved myself the 3.40 euros or whatever, because that milk chocolate and “salt” is a big fat lie. The espelette pepper one, though, is a delight.
Ah, Bovetti! So hit and miss
I’m glad you managed to procure at least one delicious flavour, though, and I’m even more gladdererest that your opinions aligned with mine on both cases. Hurrah! 