Okay, yes I am a sucker for caramel and toffee things and even more so if there happens to be a combination with chocolate involved. So put me in front of a bakery display and obviously I am going to grab a chocolate toffee danish.

In this case the pastry itself has chocolate chunks, bigger than chips and not melted into the mixture but still remaining whole for that added texture, and the topping is a sweet toffee flavoured icing.

The pastry is soft and flaky with a heavy taste of butter running through it but the chocolate chunks happen to add something really good to it as the flavour profiles come together really well (think pain au chocolat). Them being chunks really helps as well as it allows them to maintain structural integrity without it melting down and either being lost in the pastry or turning into a less pleasing goop.

As for the icing I am pretty sure it is just toffee flavoured rather than it actually being a blend of toffee and icing but the flavour itself is noticeable in that super sweet sort of way that both elements are. Standalone this icing is too sweet but when combined with the pastry of the danish itself it is able to hold its own.

Part of me wants to compare this to one of the toffee doughnuts they have as it is certainly the same icing as here but a doughnut is, in my experience, sweeter than something like a danish and there could be a chance that sweetness on sweetness could tip it over the edge. Perhaps they have somehow found a way to allow for extra flavours to be extracted from one element to bring the mouth feel of sweet more under control.

I will admit that whilst I love a UK ‘bakery’ I often lean towards Greggs because it is usually cheaper than somewhere like Cooplands or even the Pound Bakery (yes that’s right, think pound shop or dollar store but for baked goods) but sometimes you do get what you pay for. Cooplands and this pastry is certainly not at all expensive but it is a small amount more than an equivalent at another location at £1.45 but it does feel worth it for the overall quality of the product but also the actual size of the product as we cannot escape that it is a chonky treat.

Would certainly consider getting again, although I usually find myself having a bit of an indecisive moment and would probably try something I haven’t before instead (speaking of which cornflake tart anyone?).