I wasn't quite sure which forum to post this in...
With Christmas and gifing fast approaching, I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me by recommending what is/are the best, most potent (alcoholic-tasting) liqueur-filled chocolate/s, especially if they're at a decent price.
Specifically, not adulterated with anything else such as marzipan, truffle or cream type things, such as liqueur truffles, Baileys truffle bar etc., or the Anthon Berg Cocktail Creams or marzipan liqueurs. Just straight forward liqeur-filled chocolates.
I haven't tried many and admittedly its been a number of years, but I did notice that the Anthon Berg mini-bottles (in the flat black rectangle box or long silver horizontal-column-shaped box) were way more alcoholish and nice than, for example, the Elizabeth Shaw, which tasted like really really horridly sweet sugar-syrup and nothing more.
If I recall, the Walkers Cherry Brandy ones weren't too bad and gave quite a kick, but the ASDA or Tesco own version were pretty pathetic. The Duc d'or ones werent as potent as the Anthon Berg, but they were also very very old. I think there was a Lindt range of filled bars too, but I can't remember how alcholish they were.
It would also help if they're fairly readily available on the high street, (though that inculdes department stores i.e. House of Fraser, Beatties etc.). I've heard that 'Asbach' are aparrently the best but I'm not going to buy online and the price is ludicrous. It would be nice if they're fairly decently priced too. Sometimes one can find stuff in Home Bargains-type shops, but it all seems to be Elizabeth Shaw at the moment, and I haven't seen the Anthon Berg liqueurs in the supermarkets Christmas ranges yet. Morrisons have liqueur chocolates in a make I've never tried (Doulton? something like that), as do Waitrose (Abtey) but I don't really want to waste the money buying them if theyre boring, icky, flavourless sugar-syrup like the ASDA/Elizabeth Shaw ones were.
sorry for tl:dr
