Yuraku Mont Blanc Thunder Chocolate Bar

Mont Blanc Thunder is autumn in a chocolate bar.

Mont Blanc in Japan means a chestnut tart — a mound of sweetened chestnut purée piped in fine strands over cream and pastry, named for the snow-capped Alpine peak, and the dessert that signals the arrival of chestnut season in every Japanese patisserie from September.

Yuraku rebuilds it with chestnut powder, butter cookie, feuilletine and browned butter.

Browned butter is what makes it convincing.

Beurre noisette — butter cooked until the milk solids toast and turn nutty — is the move a pâtissier uses to give a chestnut dessert depth, and it is what stops this bar from reading as a simple sweet chestnut flavour.

Feuilletine, the shattered wafer flakes used in the crisp layer of a proper entremets, supplies both texture and patisserie credentials.

The Thunder format handles the rest.

Compacted layers of biscuit and crunch, almonds worked through, coated in chocolate — Yuraku’s zakuzaku, the sound of something breaking apart in stages rather than snapping.

Yuraku Seika launched Black Thunder in 1994 from its base in Tokyo.

A seasonal bar at 20 g, 108 kcal, with a 240-day shelf life.

About this item
Item Name : Mont Blanc Thunder
Brand : Yuraku Seika
Item Form : Semi-Chocolate
Allergens: Wheat, milk, almond, soybean
Number of Items : 20g (Pack of 1)