TL;dr this has that awesome chocolate flavor of true Dutch chocolate sprinkles, no candy crunch like cake toppings. Highly recommend.
When I spent a week, as a teenager, living with a host family in Holland, I was introduced to chocolade hagelslag, a traditional breakfast food. Lightly toast bread, put a thin layer of butter on it so it melts, then add a layer of chocolate sprinkles (chocolade hagelslag), some kids press’s the sprinkles into the bread with their knife or fork to make sure they don’t fall off and help them melt, though I was assured that thin layer of butter would help keep them on.
This quickly became my new favorite breakfast food, and one of the few Dutch phrases I returned home able to say was “chocolade hagelslag”. I even got the family to take me shopping to pick up a package to bring home for my parents to try.
Over the decades since then we’ve tried various chocolate sprinkles we found at the grocery stores here in the U.S., invariably on the baking needs aisle, those tend to have a candy like exterior, aren’t meant to melt, and don’t have the true chocolate flavor of chocolade hagelslag… this is what I remember from my teen years, not chocolate sprinkles in the “on top of donuts” sense, but more like chocolate shavings with a slightly hardened outer layer (not sure what causes that, but again, not in the “candy coating” sense.)
Items like this are why I love internet shopping… the things I just can’t find locally, and yet are such a treat.
Sugar, Skimmed Cocoa Powder, Skimmed Milk Powder, Cocoa Butter, Lactose, Fractionated Milk Fat, Emulsifier (Soy Lecithin), And Flavoring.
