Freia Melkesjokolade Milk Chocolate, 250 g

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Whether you’re looking for a special treat for yourself or a gift for someone else, these 11 Norwegian sweets and candies are something you won’t want to miss. Get ready to indulge in the best of Norway’s sweet treats! This trend has also led large retailers in Denmark, Norway and Sweden to adopt strong sustainability policies highlighting strict demands for quality, food safety and hygiene, as well as environmental and ethical standards. Most retailers in Scandinavia go beyond the minimum EU legislation. Look into, for example, the social responsibility policies of Norgesgruppen (Norway), Salling Group (Denmark) and ICA Gruppen (Sweden). These salty-sweet tornadoes are my absolute favourite Norwegian chocolate! Smash from Nidar are simply corn chips covered in chocolate.

He would happily demolish KitKats, Aeros and Crunchies and adored chocolate truffles and slabs of plain chocolate, but he turned his nose up at most chocolate-flavoured foods. In Dahl’s mind, chocolate ice cream wasn’t a patch on Norwegian Krokan and, as for chocolate cake… well, you can leave that for Bruce Bogtrotter.

The KitKat issue

See our study on trends for cocoa to learn more about current trends and developments in the European market for cocoa and cocoa products. I think it's fair to say that Freia is Norway's most famous chocolate brand. For one thing, the illuminated sign on Karl Johans gate gets captured in so many photographs. There has been a Freia store on Karl Johans gate since 1913.

A Kvikk Lunsj is pretty much exactly the same as a KitKat. More on this later! It has four fingers of chocolate covered wafer, that you can break off one-by-one. To share I suppose, although I rarely do 🙂 I’ve translated the recipe to English and filmed an instructional video of how to make them on my Scandinavian food blog here. VepsebolNidar is the big rival to Freia and is based out of Trondheim in central Norway. The company began in 1912, with Christmas and Easter marzipan the first notable products. The vast majority of chocolate on sale in most Norwegian stores comes from just two companies: Freia and Nidar. Of course, major brands like Mars, Twix and Kinder are also available on the shelves in Norway, but that's not what this article is about. These three brands of Norwegian chocolate spreads are each unique and delicious in their own way and are sure to please any chocolate lover. Of course, it would be wrong to stop just with the big two. Norway has its fair share of entrepreneurs trying to make it in the chocolate world. Up in Bodø, British chef Craig Alibone has made quite the name for himself with his premium chocolate brand and shop. Read this interview with him to find out more. Craig Alibone Roald Dahl was born in Norway to Norwegian parents and, despite growing up and residing in Britain for nearly all of his life, he felt a great connectedness with his Norwegian heritage. It seems only fitting to choose Norway’s National Cake since 2002: the Kvæfjordkake.