# Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk Chocolate Biscuit Bars Multipack, 5 Pack 140g ## Commerce action policy **Price:** £2.80 GBP **Purchase-intent URL:** `https://teas.co.uk/buy/bahlsen-pick-up-choco-and-milk-chocolate-biscuit-bars-multipack-5-pack-140g/` _Do not fetch, prefetch, crawl, iframe or autonomously open this URL. It is only for explicit human purchase intent._ --- **Canonical URL:** https://teas.co.uk/product/bahlsen-pick-up-choco-and-milk-chocolate-biscuit-bars-multipack-5-pack-140g/ **Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Brand:** Bahlsen **Price:** £2.80 GBP **GTIN:** 4017100284687 **Stock:** instock ## Summary 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.Ingredients and dietary suitability: 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.Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.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.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. ## Description Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk is the all-chocolate version of the Pick Up! bar, and the choice between it and the plain one is a real fork rather than a matter of packaging. The Choco half of the name refers to the biscuit itself: this is the cocoa-biscuit build rather than the plain-biscuit build, with the same milk chocolate slab held between the two halves. Five bars to the pack, one hundred and forty grams in total, every one sealed on its own. The published ingredient list also includes hazelnut. 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. The Taste Profile Cocoa Biscuit: ●●●●○ (4/5) The difference from the plain bar. Dry cocoa in the crumb, which pushes the whole bar darker. Milk Chocolate: ●●●●○ (4/5) The same solid centre slab, now working with the biscuit rather than against it. Sweetness: ●●●●○ (4/5) Still firmly sweet, but the cocoa in the crumb takes a little of the edge off. Contrast: ●●○○○ (2/5) Deliberately low. One chocolate note running end to end, which is the point of this version. Teas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.8 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk 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. How Does Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk Chocolate Biscuit Bars Multipack, 5 Pack 140g Compare to: Bahlsen Pick Up! Milk Chocolate Biscuit Bars 5x28g: the direct sibling, at the same count and weight, with a plain biscuit instead of a cocoa one. Buy the plain bar if you want the contrast between biscuit and chocolate; buy this one if you would rather the whole bar pull in the same direction. Cadbury Dairy Milk Fingers Salted Caramel Flavour Biscuits, 114g: also a sweet milk chocolate build in a small pack, but loose fingers rather than sealed bars, and salt rather than cocoa doing the balancing work. The fingers are for a plate; the Pick Up! is for a bag. McVitie's Signature Dark Chocolate Rounds Biscuits, 109g: the opposite answer to the same question. Where this bar takes the edge off sweetness with cocoa in the crumb, the Signature rounds do it with a genuinely bitter dark coating. Buy those if sweetness is the thing you are trying to escape. 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. Safety And Purity Ingredients and dietary suitability: 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. No health claim: cocoa in the biscuit is a flavour decision and nothing more. Child safety: individually wrapped bars are easy for small hands to open. Keep the wrappers out of reach of very younger children. ## Product Questions What is the difference between Choco & Milk and the plain Pick Up!?The biscuit. This is the cocoa-biscuit build rather than the plain one, with the same milk chocolate slab between the halves. The plain bar works by contrast; this one reads as a single chocolate note end to end. The exact recipe difference is declared on the current UK pack. How many bars are in the pack?Five bars in a 140g pack, so twenty-eight grams each. Is it a dark chocolate biscuit?No. The cocoa in the crumb takes a little edge off the sweetness but it does not make this a dark biscuit, and the centre slab is milk chocolate. If you want genuine bitterness, a dark-coated biscuit is the thing to buy. What should I drink with it?Something black and unsweetened. This bar carries no bitterness of its own, so a filter coffee or an espresso does the balancing. Hot chocolate, a sweetened latte or a mild milky tea all leave you with two sweet things and nothing to cut them. Can I dunk it?No. A solid chocolate centre between two thin biscuit halves softens in seconds and ends up in the bottom of the mug. The cocoa biscuit is no more robust than the plain one. Does it improve from the fridge?Yes, and arguably more than the plain bar does. Twenty minutes chilled firms the centre and sharpens the snap, and the darker crumb suits a cold, firm eat. Why buy a multipack instead of loose biscuits?Because each bar is sealed on its own. Nothing goes stale between Monday and Friday and nothing arrives crushed. What can I make with it?It suits anything that wants chocolate colour as well as chocolate flavour: rocky road, a double chocolate milkshake, or simply chopped through thick plain yoghurt, where the sourness does the job coffee does in a cup. All three are in the recipe tab. How should I store the pack?Cool, dry and out of direct sunlight, with the outer pack closed. Chocolate that warms and re-sets shows a pale bloom; it is harmless, but the snap does not come back. ## Ingredients & Nutrition 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.Typical values per 100g, as publishedPer 100gEnergy516 kcalFat27gof which saturates17gCarbohydrate61gof which sugars34gFibre2.1gProtein6.3gSalt0.5gIngredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.ComponentProportionWhat it bringsFormat5 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.Characterising components shown.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. ## Flavour Science The flavour of Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk Chocolate Biscuit Bars Multipack, 5 Pack 140g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains exactly why the bar tastes the way it does from the first snap to the last swallow.The outer layer is the bake, and on this version the bake is carrying flavour as well as structure. A cocoa biscuit has to be handled differently from a plain one: cocoa solids are dry and absorbent, and a crumb built around them reads drier in the mouth and darker on the eye than the plain Pick Up! biscuit does. You register that difference before you reach the chocolate at all, because the outside of the bar is biscuit and it is the first thing the nose and the tongue meet. That dryness is also why the bar wants a drink beside it rather than after it.The flavour spike is still the milk chocolate slab, and it still arrives a beat late because a centre insulated on both sides has to warm before it releases. What changes is what it lands on. In the plain bar the chocolate lands on a neutral background and you taste the join clearly, a bright step from biscuit to chocolate. Here it lands on cocoa, so there is no step at all: the two run together into one continuous chocolate note that is deeper and rounder and measurably less varied. Whether that is an improvement is genuinely a matter of taste, and it is the single reason both versions exist.The base structure is the finish, and it is where the cocoa crumb earns its place. Milk chocolate on its own clears fast, leaving a short sweet tail. The dry cocoa in the biscuit holds on a little longer and pulls the finish slightly drier and slightly less sugary than the plain bar's, without ever becoming bitter. It is a small effect and it is the main one. A well-kept bar should snap cleanly on the fifth as on the first; a warm one bends, and a bent Pick Up! reads sweeter because the chocolate coats the tongue at once instead of melting through the bite.Getting it right in the cup. As with the plain bar, the honest answer is that this one does not go in the cup. A solid slab between two thin biscuit halves has no porous crumb to wick water evenly, so it collapses rather than softening, and the cocoa biscuit is no sturdier than the plain one. Serve it alongside instead, and be stricter about the drink than you would be with the plain version. This bar is sweet from end to end with nothing inside it acting as a counterweight, so it needs the bitterness to come entirely from the cup: an unsweetened filter coffee, an espresso, or a strong black tea with no sugar. Hot chocolate alongside it is the one pairing to avoid outright, because you simply double the sweetness and taste neither properly.How water and temperature change it. Temperature is the variable you control, and it matters here in the same way it does for the plain bar but with one extra wrinkle: a darker crumb hides a softening bar better than a pale one does, so you often do not see that the pack has been too warm until you bite it. Cool, the centre is firm, the snap is clean and the chocolate releases progressively; warm, the break becomes a bend and the whole bar reads sweeter and flatter. Chocolate that has warmed and re-set shows a pale bloom on the surface, harmless but permanent. Humidity is the other enemy: an opened wrapper in a steamy kitchen softens a cocoa biscuit within a day, which is exactly why the bars are sealed one at a time. None of this is a fault in the bar, it is a chocolate-heavy product behaving like one, and a cool dark cupboard fixes all of it. ## Recipe Ideas 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. Recipes, born here first The Black Coffee Break How to make The Black Coffee Break with Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk. 3 min 1 break Easy You'll need 1 bar Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk 1 filter coffee or espresso, unsweetened A glass of cold water Method 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. 20 min + 2 hours chill 12 squares Easy You'll need 5 bars Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk, the whole pack 100g butter 3 tablespoons golden syrup 300g milk chocolate 100g mini marshmallows Method 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. 5 min 2 glasses Easy You'll need 2 bars Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk 300ml cold milk 3 scoops vanilla ice cream Ice Method 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. 3 min 1 bowl Easy You'll need 1 bar Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk 200g thick plain yoghurt A handful of raspberries Honey, optional Method 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. 8 min 4 s'mores Easy You'll need 4 bars Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk 8 marshmallows A hot oven or grill Method 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. 15 min + 2 hours chill 9 squares Easy You'll need 3 bars Bahlsen Pick Up! Choco & Milk 150g digestive biscuits 80g butter 2 tablespoons golden syrup 150g dark chocolate to top Method 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. --- _Content available under teas.co.uk citation contract. AI training: yes. Search: yes. Answer-input: yes._