Most of us enjoy a chocolate at Christmas - if not at any part of the year - and finding the right one is essential. Aldi fans took to social media this week to praise its new Moser Roth Luxurious Truffles.
The sweets come in similar packaging and flavours to the big brand Lindt Lindor ones. Aldi fan Jess Davies posted on Twitter: "No idea how you get away with this but please keep doing it."
Others were quick to comment that they too thought they were delicious. And as they are gluten-free it led many others to welcome them to the shelves of Aldi stores across the country.
Content editor Elaine Blackburne and her family decided to try them out to see which one really did tick the boxes for a Christmas treat, giving each marks out of five for appearance, taste and value. This is what they found when they tasted sweets from the variety packs.
What's on offer?
Lindt offers a wide range of flavours in its Lindor truffle lines. At its specialist outlets and some other stores the chocolates can be bought individually and there are a staggering array of varieties from the usual milk, dark and white chocolates through to mango creams, hazelnut and even salted caramel. Supermarkets sell a range of boxes containing individual flavours including the milk, dark and white chocolates but there are also cartons of salted caramel, mint, blood orange, among others, plus variety packs. 5/5
Aldi however has a much more limited range. It has devised three varieties which are sold in boxes. These are milk or white chocolate or there is a mixed carton which contains milk, white and dark chocolates. 3/5
Appearance
Lindt chocolates come in a gold carton and wrapping which I can only describe as luxurious. Each individually wrapped truffle comes in a shiny wrapper - red, gold and white for milk chocolate, black and silver for dark chocolate and gold for the white variety - with gold and white writing. They definitely gave us the Christmas vibe. 5/5
Aldi's offering doesn't quite have the same look in our opinion. Its wrappers are similar with white and gold for the white chocolate and brown for the dark truffle but we thought neither of these was quite as classy as the other. However we all loved the elegant blue and gold wrap for the milk chocolate truffle. It was our favourite design out of all the sweets we tested. 4/5
Taste
We blind-tested the milk, dark and white chocolates of both varieties - skipping the hazelnut Lindor one as we could not compare it with and Aldi version. This is what we found.
Milk chocolate
Lindt - This had a smooth, hard chocolate outer layer which whe we bit into it broke off into chunky pieces to reveal a smooth inner truffle. The outer layer had an odd aftertaste that none of us could put our finger on but it didn't taste as though it was an expensive sweet. However it wasn't unpleasant and the chocolate inner was absolutely delicious. When you ate both together it was definitely enjoyable. 4/5
Aldi - Under the blue and gold wrap there was a chocolate ball almost identical in appearance to the Lindor ones. However we thought its outer shell was different with no aftertaste, just tasty, creamy chocolate. We found the inside truffle tasted identical to the other. The truffle as a whole was lovely but very sweet so it would be tough to have more than one. 5/5
White chocolate
Lindt - This was phenominally tasty. The creamy outer shell was again crisp, while the inside truffle was smooth and creamy. My son said it was "amazing" and none of us could fault it - but we could all only eat one as they were extremely sweet. 5/5
Aldi - This was almost identical to the Lindor sweet. Again both the chocolate and inner layer were perfect. It wasn't quite as sweet but that didn't detract from the flavour which we all loved. Again - we couldn't fault it. 5/5
Dark chocolate
Lindt - This one was billed as extra dark and came with 60% cocoa. We thought this had a very mild dark chocolate taste which surprised us and if I hadn't known it was the dark chocolate one we were tasting I'd have thought it was milk. Again the inner truffle was creamy but it had an aftertaste none of us really liked. 3/5
Aldi - this one really hit us between the eyes with dark chocolate flavour. It has 70% cocoa which gave it a rich taste. However we thought the inside layer tasted exactly the same as the milk chocolate one. 4/5
Value
Lindt - the Lindor chocolates were delicious and offered four flavours rather than three - there was an additional hazelnut one. These retail in most supermarkets at between £4.50-£5.50 for a 200g carton. They aren't cheap but then we thought they were worth the cost. 4/5
Aldi - the Moser Roth truffles come in at £2.69 for a 200g carton. We loved them and thought they were excellent value for money. 5/5
Over all there was little to choose between the two sets of truffles as our voting showed with both surprisingly notching up 26/30. Lindt took the prize for variety and appearance with a massive 10/10 compated with Moser Roth's 7/10. But when it came to taste and value with 19/20 while the Lindor truffles also did well with 16/20. So in our opinion if you want the classy look Lindt is the winner but on taste it was Aldi.
