Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk Chocolate Biscuit Bars Multipack, 5 Pack 140g
Choco and Milk names two chocolates and neither of them is dark, which matters if the brown biscuit made you hope otherwise. The cocoa in the crumb shaves a little off the sweetness and stops a long way short of bitter. It disappoints anyone after a grown-up version of the bar, and it rewards anyone who found the plain biscuit half a touch dull. Five bars, the same weight as the plain pack, so the only real decision here is the crumb.
Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk Chocolate Biscuit Bars Multipack, in brief.
Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk is the all-chocolate version of the Pick Up! bar, a cocoa biscuit either side of the same milk chocolate slab, five sealed bars to the pack at one hundred and forty grams, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the deeper of the two Pick Up! builds.
The plain Pick Up! works by contrast, a neutral biscuit against a rich centre; putting cocoa in the crumb removes that join, so this one reads as a single chocolate note end to end, deeper but less varied. It carries no bitterness of its own, so drink something black and unsweetened alongside it.
Removing the contrast is the whole effect. The plain Pick Up! works by opposition, a neutral dry biscuit against a rich chocolate centre, and you taste the join. Put cocoa in the biscuit and the join disappears: the bar reads as one continuous chocolate thing from first bite to last, deeper and rounder but less varied. Some people want the contrast and some want the depth. If you have only ever had one of the two, it is worth knowing they genuinely do not taste the same.
Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. The fork between the two Pick Up! builds, storage and pairing are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind Bahlsen
Bahlsen is a German biscuit house from Hanover, known in Britain chiefly for the Leibniz butter biscuit. Pick Up! is the company's bar format rather than a tin biscuit, and it is built for a different occasion: a lunchbox, a glovebox, a drawer at work. The Choco & Milk variant exists because the plain bar splits opinion, and a good many people who like the format would rather the biscuit joined in than sat back.
Bahlsen's heritage is German; that is company heritage and not a claim about where this particular pack was made. The exact recipe difference between this bar and the plain one, the ingredient list and the allergen advice must all be read off the current UK pack rather than taken from this page.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
What You Are Actually Buying
- Count and weight: five bars, one hundred and forty grams in the pack, so twenty-eight grams a bar.
- The multipack format: five separate seals rather than one sleeve. Nothing goes stale between Monday and Friday and nothing arrives crushed at the bottom of a bag.
- Cocoa in the biscuit: the difference from the plain bar, and the reason this one reads darker and rounder.
- Milk chocolate: milk chocolate contains milk, so this is not a vegan product. Everything beyond that is a matter for the pack.
- What it is not: not a dark chocolate bar. The cocoa in the crumb takes an edge off the sweetness, it does not make this a dark biscuit. If you want genuine bitterness, buy a dark-coated biscuit instead.
Ideal Serving Conditions
An all-chocolate bar is sweeter in aggregate than the plain version and has nothing inside it working as a counterweight, so what you drink alongside it matters more here than with almost any other biscuit on the shelf.
The Coffee Break Serve
- Black coffee, always: an unsweetened filter or espresso is the natural partner. The bitterness that the cocoa biscuit hints at but does not deliver comes from the cup instead.
- Temperature: cool room temperature for the clean snap. A warm bar bends rather than breaks and reads sweeter as it goes.
- No sugar anywhere: a sweetened drink next to this bar is one sweet thing too many, and you end up tasting neither properly.
- Do not dunk: the solid centre softens in seconds and the cocoa biscuit is no more robust than the plain one. This format simply does not take a dunk.
The Pudding Serve
- Chilled: twenty minutes in the fridge tightens the centre and sharpens the snap, and it suits the darker crumb even better than it suits the plain bar.
- Over yoghurt: chopped into thick plain yoghurt, where the sourness does the job coffee does in a cup.
- In a milkshake: two bars blitzed into cold milk and vanilla ice cream gives a double chocolate shake with biscuit texture through it.
- In rocky road: the cocoa crumb holds its colour in a set slab better than a plain biscuit does, so the finished squares look as chocolatey as they taste.
Getting It Right with a Hot Drink
- Pairing: black coffee first, then a strong unsweetened black tea. Both supply the bitterness this bar does not carry itself.
- Avoid: hot chocolate, sweetened lattes and mild milky teas. All three double the sweetness and flatten the bar.
- Dunking: no. Eat it alongside.
- Storage: cool, dry and out of direct sun with the outer pack closed. Warmed and re-set chocolate shows a pale bloom, which is harmless but the snap does not return.
- Best with: a mid-morning coffee, a packed lunch, or the middle of a long drive.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk Chocolate Biscuit Bars Multipack, 5 Pack 140g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Bahlsen
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our commitment to the planet
Sourcing and packaging details are printed on the current UK pack; the brand page carries the fuller story.
The taste profile
How does it compare
Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk Chocolate Biscuit Bars Multipack, 5 Pack 140g brings chocolate colour as well as chocolate flavour, which makes it the better of the two Pick Up! bars to cook with. Six builds below cover the black coffee break, rocky road, a double chocolate shake, a yoghurt pot, warm oven s'mores and fridge squares.
Made with this tea
The Black Coffee Break
How to make The Black Coffee Break with Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk.
- 1 bar Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk
- 1 filter coffee or espresso, unsweetened
- A glass of cold water
- Brew the coffee black and leave it unsweetened. This bar carries no bitterness of its own, so all of it has to come from the cup.
- Snap the bar into four and eat a piece between sips rather than in one go.
- Keep the bar out of the coffee. It does not dunk, and the centre slab will end up at the bottom of the cup.
- Finish with cold water to clear the sweetness.
What you'll end up with: The pairing that makes one bar feel like a proper break rather than something eaten standing up.
Choco Bar Rocky Road
How to make Choco Bar Rocky Road with Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk.
- 5 bars Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk, the whole pack
- 100g butter
- 3 tablespoons golden syrup
- 300g milk chocolate
- 100g mini marshmallows
- Break all five bars into large chunks. The cocoa biscuit keeps its colour in a set slab, which is why this version works better here than the plain one.
- Melt 100g of butter, 3 tablespoons of golden syrup and 300g of milk chocolate together, then take it off the heat.
- Fold in the bar chunks and 100g of mini marshmallows and tip into a lined 20cm tin.
- Chill for two hours and cut into twelve squares.
What you'll end up with: Squares that look as chocolatey as they taste, because the biscuit is dark all the way through. Keeps five days in a tin in a cool place.
Double Chocolate Shake
How to make a Double Chocolate Shake with Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk.
- 2 bars Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk
- 300ml cold milk
- 3 scoops vanilla ice cream
- Ice
- Break two bars into a blender with 300ml of cold milk and three scoops of vanilla ice cream.
- Blitz in short bursts rather than continuously, so some biscuit texture survives into the glass.
- Pour over ice into two tall glasses.
- Crumble a little extra bar over the top if you have a third to spare.
What you'll end up with: A shake with real biscuit through it rather than a smooth chocolate milk. Drink it straight away, before the crumb softens.
Chopped Over Yoghurt
How to make Chopped Over Yoghurt with Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk.
- 1 bar Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk
- 200g thick plain yoghurt
- A handful of raspberries
- Honey, optional
- Spoon 200g of thick plain yoghurt into a bowl. Plain, not sweetened; the sourness is the whole point.
- Chop one bar into rough pieces and scatter over the top.
- Add raspberries for a second sharp note if you have them.
- Eat at once, while the biscuit is still crisp against the yoghurt.
What you'll end up with: The sourness of plain yoghurt does the same job for this bar that a black coffee does, which makes it a better breakfast than it sounds.
Warm Oven S'mores
How to make Warm Oven S'mores with Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk.
- 4 bars Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk
- 8 marshmallows
- A hot oven or grill
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius and line a small tray.
- Sit two marshmallows on each bar and put the tray in for three to four minutes, until the marshmallow puffs and colours.
- Watch them closely. The centre slab melts as fast as the marshmallow does, and a minute too long gives you a puddle.
- Cool for a minute before eating; the inside is far hotter than it looks.
What you'll end up with: An indoor s'more that needs no separate chocolate, because the bar already has a slab built into it.
Choco Bar Fridge Squares
How to make Choco Bar Fridge Squares with Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk.
- 3 bars Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk
- 150g digestive biscuits
- 80g butter
- 2 tablespoons golden syrup
- 150g dark chocolate to top
- Crush 150g of digestives roughly and chop three Pick Up! bars into chunks.
- Melt 80g of butter with 2 tablespoons of golden syrup, stir everything together off the heat and press into a lined 18cm tin.
- Pour over 150g of melted dark chocolate to give the slab a bitter top against a sweet middle.
- Chill for two hours and cut into nine squares.
What you'll end up with: A fridge cake with three different chocolates in it and no oven required. Keeps four days covered somewhere cool.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 516 kcal |
| Fat | 27g |
| of which saturates | 17g |
| Carbohydrate | 61g |
| of which sugars | 34g |
| Fibre | 2.1g |
| Protein | 6.3g |
| Salt | 0.5g |
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten), milk and nuts (hazelnuts). Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredients, as published for this barcode: WHEAT flour, sugar, vegetable fats (palm, coconut), cocoa butter, cocoa mass, whole MILK powder (4.6%), glucose syrup, skimmed MILK powder (1.1%), whey products (MILK), clarified BUTTER, salt, flavourings, raising agents: sodium carbonates, diphosphates; emulsifier: lecithins; ground HAZELNUTS, starch (WHEAT), acid: citric acid.
Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.
| Component | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Format | 5 bars, 140g in the pack (28g a bar) | Each bar individually wrapped. |
Pack: Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk Chocolate Biscuit Bars Multipack, 5 Pack 140g; five individually wrapped cocoa biscuit bars with a milk chocolate centre. Store cool, dry and out of direct sunlight with the outer pack closed. Read the net weight, the ingredient list, the allergen advice and the best-before date off the current UK pack.
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Sourcing & blend. Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk Chocolate Biscuit Bars Multipack, 5 Pack 140g is made by Bahlsen, a German biscuit house from Hanover known in Britain chiefly for the Leibniz butter biscuit. Pick Up! is the company's bar format rather than a tin biscuit, built for a lunchbox or a drawer rather than a plate, and the individual wrappers are the engineering that makes that work. The Choco & Milk variant exists because the plain bar divides opinion: a good many people who like the format would rather the biscuit joined in than sat back.
What's in Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk Chocolate Biscuit Bars Multipack, 5 Pack 140g, and what isn't:
- In: two cocoa wheat biscuit halves with a slab of milk chocolate between them, five bars to the pack, each sealed separately.
- Contains milk: milk chocolate contains milk. This is not a vegan or dairy-free product.
- Contains gluten: it is a wheat biscuit and is not suitable for a coeliac diet.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk Chocolate Biscuit Bars Multipack, 5 Pack 140g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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