KoxBar Salted Pecan Brownie PRE-ORDER April 15th - artisan protein bar

KoxBar Salted Pecan Brownie.

This KoxBar is my private favourite of this drop – I give it the "Boss Recommends" badge with pure pleasure – and there's not an ounce of marketing in it, just pure, unadulterated enjoyment :)

It's exactly as I wanted it to be - intensely chocolatey, with a hint of saltiness from caramelized pecans, whose flavour, so different from hazelnuts, gives chocolate another dimension. The brittle pearls in the crown are the brownie pieces sprinkled over the shell of this KoxBar - edible glitter-dusted pecans emerging from them look like gold nuggets in clods of earth. Their taste is different, nobler, slightly buttery, with a caramel bitterness on the finish - and it is this that gives this chocolateiness a new dimension, more grown-up, more addictive.

The very first contact is a promise. The thick shell of Belgian dark chocolate cracks under pressure with a distinct snap, as if betraying that something heavy, rich, not entirely innocent is hidden underneath. Scattered on its surface are pieces of brownie - irregular, crumbly, intensely cocoa - and among them emerge pecans dusted with gold dust, like gold nuggets hidden in dark, moist earth, a preview of what awaits inside.

The interior is intensely, intensely chocolatey, and it is a chocolateiness with a brownie character - rich, moist, sweet, yet distinctly cocoa. It perfectly captures the character of a heavy brownie cake. Dense, moist, almost sticky, intensely chocolatey in the character of a true brownie, full of deep, full of cocoa, which slowly melts on the tongue and leaves a long, velvety echo. Immersed in this dark mass is a lighter cream - smooth, silky, a combination of milk chocolate and salted caramel. The sweetness here is soft, enveloping, and the salt appears exactly where it needs to be, enhancing the flavour and bringing out its best. Contrasting with the smooth sweet-and-salty cream is the chocolate - it's Belgian dark chocolate without sugar, 53% cocoa - not sweet like Milka, but also not bitter, a golden mean - a bridge between the brownie with sweet cream underneath, and the brownie pieces with salted pecans on top.

You'll find everything I love most here - contrasts of sweetness and saltiness, softness and crispiness, smoothness and roughness. It's a pure play of contrasts. The smoothness of the cream meets the roughness of the brownie, the softness of the interior with the crunch of chocolate and pecans, the sweetness with a delicate saltiness. Each bite is a little different - sometimes creamier, sometimes more cocoa, sometimes you suddenly hit an intense, caramelized nut that changes everything and stays in your memory long after the bar is gone.

I'm sure it will return in future drops!

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KoxBar protein bars - behind the scenes

Artisanal KoxBar protein bars - one of a kind. Created with love and passion for flavour, aroma, and good ingredients. The formula of each bar is built from scratch in our manufactory; we carefully select ingredients and proportions to get as close as possible to the concept that inspired each bar. For this reason, the bars vary in weight, size, and calorie content, but we strive to ensure that the protein content hovers around 20g per bar - in addition to being sweets, they are also meant to be functional for physically active individuals. We avoid sugar, excess maltitol, and palm oil in our ingredients.

We create bars that we ourselves want to eat. Without compromise.

KoxBar bars are divided into those filled with mass, cream, mousse, or fruit, and those to which we add crispy extras inside the mass (nuts and/or cookies). As for the coating, which is the most caloric component of the bar, to meet your expectations, we prepare bars without coating, with a half-coating (only on top), and fully covered in chocolate - we do not use ready-made chocolates or couvertures (with the exception of Ruby chocolate); as a coating, we use sugar-free protein chocolate prepared in our manufactory. For vegan bars, we have even developed an innovative recipe for vegan sugar-free protein chocolate, of which we are incredibly proud!

• WHY WE DO IT? KoxBars were born out of a love for flavour, aroma, and excellent macros - initially they were a way of testing new Funky Flavors, but over time they became a passion and the reason we discover new aromas.
• HOW WE DO IT? All KoxBars are handmade, in minimal batches of a dozen or so pieces per flavour. This is how it is and will be - we are not interested in mass production, we want to share our passion, flavour & the highest quality.

What's gone is gone forever!

KoxBars appear on Guiltfree once every few weeks, for special occasions, are available for a few days and then disappear forever - in the next batch there will almost always be different flavours, because life is too short and our list of flavour ideas is too long to repeat ourselves - although we have our favourites that we will never give up, we know that soon they will be your favourites too :)

• CHEAT CLEAN? The taste should be complex, the ingredients, quite the opposite! We focus on simple, high-quality ingredients. We don't use any preservatives, which is why KoxBars have a short shelf life. If your grandma knew what protein bars were, she'd be baking KoxBars for an afternoon snack :) We adhere to the 80/20 rule, which is why in perfectly clean ingredients you'll find 'cheat' additions - cookies, chocolates, jellies, which put the flavourful finishing touch.
• FOR WHOM? We create KoxBars for our loved ones, friends of Guiltfree, and their friends, and if you're reading this, you're one of them! KoxBars are created for Fit Freaks who set the bar high for themselves and others.