London Swall'wing: Part IV -- The Flap About Flapjacks

This is an RJ Foods White Chocolate Flapjack.

At first glance, I'm stumped. This is not a flapjack. A flapjack is a pancake. Oh, sorry. I'm thinking with my US-American-raised food brain. The internet tells me a British flapjack is a traditional, dense, oat-based bar cookie.

Secondly, raisins?! I'm sorry -- sultanas?! In my white chocolate pancake bar? Oookay... but I'm really not that into raisins...

Tasting it reminds me of something (I'm typing as I eat it), but I don't know what. It's sort of a raisin-y power bar. Takes a fair amount of chewing. It has a very "Fig Newtony" flavor, if the outside and inside of the Fig Newton were blended together.

Yeah! A thick, raisin-y Fig Newton thing.  I liked the bites without raisins best.

And that was a snack review typed in real time. Pow!

• London Swall'wing: Part III
• London Swall'wing: Part II
• London Swall'wing: Part I

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Pick-Me-Up

My morning coffee (and afternoon coffee and evening coffee) is hot chocolate.  I don't particularly enjoy the flavor of coffee and I love not being dependent on the caffeine of coffee or tea (though I do also like tea), so I often drink cocoa when I want a hot beverage.  

I'm sometimes given intriguing flavors of drinking chocolate as gifts.  One of the more recent was this Belgian white chocolate pictured above.  It's smooth and unassuming, heated up in milk (and my favorite office mug). Despite one co-worker teasingly announcing that my frequent breakfast of oatmeal and hot chocolate is "baby food," I'm not giving up this habit.
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From the Vaults: New favorites

I am a creature of habit when it comes to Ritter Sport bars. I tend to stick with Marzipan, Cornflake, and Peppermint. But I am rarely disappointed when I try a new flavor.  Weiss + Crisp is white chocolate and cornflakes. Karamell Nuss is caramel and hazelnut with crispy rice pieces. Both are divine.

Go ahead! Collect them all!

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Petit and Blanc

Have you had Le Petit Écolier biscuits? They're sweet and cracker-y crisp on the bottom plus soft, sweet chocolate on top, together in one cookie.

Sometimes, as it happens, they're white chocolate on the top (and, yes, I know that technically white chocolate isn't chocolate). Proper!

(Thanks, Paul!)

A No-Brainer

It took very little time or effort to dip Ritz Bits Cracker Sandwiches (Peanut Butter) in chocolate.

It took even less time or effort to eat them all.

I meant to make these for the Cookie Party in December but ran out of time. My guests' loss was certainly my gain. Thanks, Mom, for sharing the idea with me!

A tip or two: Milk chocolate (melted mini Hershey's Kisses) did not set up as well as the melted white chocolate chips, but a few hours in the refrigerator evened things up. White was my favorite; milk chocolate was Dan's. Also, chopsticks are excellent enrobement utensils.

Poetry Tuesday: two stanzas of haiku about an old friend.

On Sunday

Warm air kissed near ground,
Winter's wrap of cold shrugged back,
I'd worn the light coat.

Hands met old pockets
Where, inside, a stored chocolate
Jumped to meet my grasp.