The Ritter Sport Yogurt is an elusive chocolate bar. Its more common brethren, like Milk Chocolate with Cornflakes or Dark Chocolate with Whole Hazelnuts, are easily found in many major grocery stores in the U.S., but I?ve only ever seen the Yogurt in the wild in specialty fine food stores, random NYC bodegas, or Europe.
According to Ritter?s U.S. importer, the Yogurt is one of the worst sellers in the US. A travesty!
People, it is time to make the Ritter Sport Yogurt happen. Fro-yo shops pepper America?s strip malls, tangy plain yogurt from Greece and Iceland is all the rage with the probiotic set, and Ben and Jerry?s has recently combined both trends in their new Greek frozen yogurt line.
The stage has been set: America is ready to take their chocolate with some tang.
If you?re unfamiliar with the Ritter Sport brand, their bars are notable for their signature square shape. Fun fact: the square design came about because regular rectangular chocolate bars fell out of sporty gents? sport coat pockets, so Ritter created a fatter square bar that would stay put during sporty occasions. And thus, the Ritter Sport was born!
Like all full-sized Ritter Sports, the Yogurt bar is a grid of 16 smaller conjoined squares. Breaking the bar across one of the columns reveals the ?refreshing yogurt filling? promised by the wrapper. Its creamy whiteness stands out prettily against the light brown of the milk chocolate that sandwiches it.
The milk chocolate is throat-coatingly thick and lingers as it melts. It breaks softly instead of snapping and tastes of sweet cocoa with some caramel notes.
The yogurt filling?s texture is a little softer and squishier than that of the milk chocolate. It also has a thinner melt that disappears on the tongue. The filling tastes tart and tangy, like a really nice Greek yogurt.
The yogurt?s tartness is a great foil for the thick sweetness of the chocolate and helps lightens up the treat. Together, the taste is reminiscent of chocolate cheesecake. I wouldn?t go as far as to call it ?refreshing?, but since when is chocolate supposed to be refreshing, anyway?
After a few too many squares, the milk chocolate?s sweetness becomes cloying and creates that lovely, sticky sugar-overload feeling in the back of the throat. I?d like it more if the chocolate?s sweetness was turned down a little, but I can?t complain too much. A whole bar contains 135% of the recommended daily dose of saturated fat, so anything that keeps me from scarfing down the whole thing in one sitting is a good thing.
The conclusion?
As far as I know, this is the only yogurt chocolate bar on the U.S. market. There are chocolate bars like Milka Joghurt, but that is only abroad at the moment.
I just?wish Ritter Sport Yogurt was easier to find! If you?re lucky enough to come across one, I highly recommend that you buy it. And then mail it to me. A ZOMG!
Varsha