Iceland chocolate

Now that the hype about Dubai chocolate seems to be over, maybe I have something new for you - how about Iceland chocolate?

My husband surprised me with this very special Icelandic chocolate for my birthday.

A tribute to the flavors of the north

Just for fun, we thought about what would be “typically Icelandic” and what we could put in the chocolate. Finally we came up with licorice, dried fish and seaweed, maybe a little bit of sea salt..? Because I can't easily find these ingredients in Germany, I put off the idea for a while... but not my husband!

He then tried an “Out-of-IcelandGerman Edition” of Iceland chocolate, with roasted salmon instead of dried fish and nori (Japanese seaweed) instead of seaweed. He then had the recipe and instructions designed entirely by Chat-GPT using the specified ingredients. And then try it out! Successfully!

Ingredients

200 g dark chocolate

40 g licorice chocolate

20 g smoked salmon

1 small nori sheet

1 pinch of Icelandic sea salt

Preparation

Prepare the smoked salmon:

Preheat the oven to 200 °F (resp. 100 °C) fan oven. Cut the smoked salmon into very small pieces, place on a baking tray lined with baking paper and let it dry in a preheated oven at 200 °F (resp. 100 °C) for about 30 to 40 minutes until the salmon is nice and crispy. Then let it cool down and grate it into fine crumbs.

Then prepare the chocolate:

Roughly chop the dark chocolate and let it slowly melt in a water bath while stirring constantly.

Crumble the nori sheet and carefully chop the licorice chocolate.

Add the nori crumbs, the grated smoked salmon and the chopped licorice chocolate into the melted chocolate and stir.

Then pour the chocolate mixture into the silicone mold and sprinkle with a little sea salt.

Then place the mold in the refrigerator for at least an hour and let it harden completely. Then carefully remove the chocolate from the mold.

Then wrap the chocolate in suitable paper.

-> A unique Icelandic chocolate - perfect as a surprise gift! (according to Chat GPT) 

And the taste...?

In fact, our Iceland chocolate tastes much more harmless than it sounds. It actually tastes surprisingly "normal" like sea salt chocolate - intensely like dark chocolate, until the fish taste comes through!

I actually think they're delicious, and so does my husband. Our test eaters had different opinions and at least our children were not immediately enthusiastic. However, the majority of them don't necessarily like to eat fish, which doesn't make it any easier for the Icelandic chocolate. But there were also people who voluntarily took a second piece of chocolate!

Overall - "special" is probably quite accurate, but I think it's definitely edible!

Here is the original template from Chat-GPT (in German):

And, would you like to try our Iceland chocolate yourself?

[Translated from here.]