Delicje szampańskie

Name: Delicje szampańskie
Pronunciation: dɛˈlʲiʦ̑ʲjɛ ˈʃãmpãj̃sʲcɛ
Translation: Champagne delicacies
Producer: LU Polska
Weight:  14,7 g/0.5 oz per candy
Price: 3 PLN/$ 0.95/€ 0.75/£ 0.60 per 147 g/5.2 oz
Energy: 375 kcal/100g, 55 kcal/cake

Ingredients: glucose-fructose syrup, sugar, chocolate 15% (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, emulsifiers: soya lecithin, E476, flavours), wheat flour, eggs, potato starch, humectant: glycerol, rapeseed oil, acidity regulators: citric acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, ascorbic acid, concentrated orange juice and comminuted orange 0.5%, gelling agents: pectin, guar gum, concentrated multifruit juice, flavours, salt, raising agent: ammonium hydrogen carbonate, emulsifier: E471, maltodextrin, colours (mixed carotenes).

Delicje szampańskie are round soft sponge cakes with fruit jelly, topped with dark chocolate. The jelly comes in various flavours: orange (the original one), apricot, raspberry, cherry and blueberry. The have been produced since 1977 in Płońsk. Interestingly, up till May 2011, the factory had been run by Wedel, but was taken over by LU Polska. Wedel subsequently introduced his own version of the cakes called Jedyne.

E.Wedel Biała

Name: E.Wedel Gorzka
Pronunciation: ɛ’vɛdɛl ‘bʲjawa
Translation: E.Wedel White
Producer: E.Wedel/LOTTE
Weight: 100 g/3.5 oz
Price: 3.90 PLN/$ 1.20/€ 0.95/£ 0.75
Energy: 564 kcal

Ingredients: sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, whey powder, yoghurt powder, emulsifier: soya lecithin, flavours. Cocoa butter min. 30%.*

*This information is not given on the package. I enquired about it at the Wedel Office.

E.Wedel Biała is a white equivalent of Gorzka and Mleczna in a classic Wedel chocolate bar series. It’s aromatic, sweet and creamy, comprising 30% of cocoa butter. Each of its 18 squares is decorated with an E.Wedel logo.

E.Wedel Mleczna

Name: E.Wedel Mleczna
Pronunciation: ɛ’vɛdɛl ‘mlɛʧ̑na
Translation: E.Wedel Milky
Producer: E.Wedel/LOTTE
Weight: 100 g/3.5 oz
Price: 3.30 PLN/$ 1.05/€ 0.80/£ 0.65
Energy: 536 kcal

Ingredients: sugar, cocoa butter, fat-reduced cocoa powder, whole milk powder, cocoa mass, whey powder, lactose and milk proteins, hazelnut mass, milk fat, emulsifier: soya lecithin, flavours. Cocoa solids min. 30%, milk mass min. 15%.

E.Wedel Mleczna is a milk equivalent of Gorzka in the classic Wedel chocolate bar series. It’s aromatic, milky and soft, comprising 30% of cocoa solids. Each of its 18 squares is decorated with an E.Wedel logo.

E.Wedel Gorzka

Name: E.Wedel Gorzka
Pronunciation: ɛ’vɛdɛl ‘gɔʃka
Translation: E.Wedel Bitter (in Polish dark/plain chocolate is called bitter)
Producer: E.Wedel/LOTTE
Weight: 100 g/3.5 oz
Price: 2.90 PLN/$ 0.90/€ 0.70/£ 0.60
Energy: 502 kcal

Ingredients: cocoa mass, sugar, fat-reduced cocoa powder, cocoa butter, emulsifier: soya lecithin, flavours. Cocoa solids min. 64%.

E.Wedel Gorzka is the most popular dark chocolate in Poland. It’s aromatic, shiny and semi-bitter, comprising 64% of cocoa solids. Each of its 18 squares is decorated with an E.Wedel logo.

Mieszanka Wedlowska

Name: Mieszanka Wedlowska
Pronunciation: mʲiɛˈʃanka vɛdˈlɔfska
Translation: Wedel Mix
Producer: Wedel/LOTTE
Weight: approx. 10 g/0.35 oz per candy
Price: 30 PLN/$ 9.50/€ 7.30/£ 6.10 per 1 kg/35 oz
Energy: approx. 48 kcal per candy

Ingredients*: sugar, dark chocolate (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, milk fat, emulsifiers: soya lecithin and E476, flavours), partially hydrogenated vegetable fat, glucose syrup, dried whey, dried whole milk, peanut mass, sweetened condensed milk, fat-reduced cocoa powder, dessicated coconut, peanuts, wafers (wheat flour, rye flour, sunflower oil, dried eggs, maltodextrin, invert sugar solution, raising agents: sodium hydrogen carbonate, ammonium hydrogen carbonate and sodium pyrosulfite, emulsifier: soya lecithin, salt, caramelized cocoa bean (cocoa bean, sugar), dried yoghurt, milk fat, acidity regulator: citric acid, butter, gelling agent: agar, flavours, enzyme: invertase, colourings: carminic acid, caramel. Dark chocolate: cocoa solids min. 47%.

*ingredients of individual candies are not given on the wrappers – this list applies to all candies and is found on the package.

The Wedel Mix started to be produced in the 1930s and immediately caught on. The content of the Mix changed several times over the decades. Nowadays only Bajeczny and Pierrot belong to the original one. The current line-up:

Bajeczny (Fabulous) – I dedicated one entry to the bar version of it. It contains cocoa filling with crumbled wafers.

Pierrot (Pierrot) – its bar version has already been described. It’s filled with cocoa and crumbled peanuts.

Manilla (Manilla) – milk and caramel mass. Its name is a reference to a bar from the 1960s. It was a chocolate block (something similar to chocolate salami), which used to be very popular in Poland back then.

Bałamutka (Lurer) – coconut filling with shredded coconut

Liryk (Lyricist) – milk cream filling with mini chocolate chips

Nygusek (Skiver) – Coke-flavoured jelly

Paryski (Parisian) – strawberry jelly

Dragon (Dragon) – spicy-flavoured caramel filling

Among the discontinued ones, the most popular were: Irys (Iris; dulce de leche mass), Rekord (Record; peanuts, caramel and nougat), Figiel (Prank; apple jelly and caramel), Wenecki (Venetian; strawberry jelly), Kawuś (Coffeer; coffee and cocoa), Wiedeński (Viennese; cherry jelly), Tarragona (Tarragona; Sangria-flavoured), Kokoladka (Cocolate; coconut and cocoa), Arachidka (Peanutess; peanuts).

Sezamki

Name: Sezamki AHA!
Pronunciation: sɛˈzamci aˈxa
Translation: Sesames (diminutive)
Producer: E.Wedel/LOTTE
Weight: 27,2 g/0.96 oz
Price: 1.49 PLN/$ 0.40/€ 0.30/£ 0.20
Energy: 137 kcal

Ingredients: sesame seed 44%, glucose syrup, sugar.

One bag contains 3 rectangular bars (7 x 3.5cm/2.8 x 1.4 in) made of sesame seeds glued together by sticky syrup. They are crispy, semi-sweet and have a characteristic sesame aftertaste. Such bars are produced by a number of manufactures, but AHA! by Wedel are definitely the most popular ones.

Jedyna. Czekolada wyborowa

Name: Jedyna. Czekolada wyborowa
Pronunciation: jɛˈdɨna ˌʧ̑ɛkɔˈlada vɨbɔˈrɔva
Translation: The Only One. The Choice Chocolate
Producer: E.Wedel/LOTTE
Weight: 100 g/3.5 oz
Price: 3.50 PLN/$ 1.00/€ 0.85/£ 0.70
Energy: 501 kcal

Ingredients: sugar, cocoa mass, fat-reduced cocoa powder, cocoa butter, milk fat, emulsifiers: soya lecithin and E 476, salt, flavour. Cocoa solids min. 50%.

Jedyna is Wedel‘s flagship product, having been produced for almost 90 years! It’s also the company’s only product whose package hasn’t been changed over the years. Its taste lies somewhere between milk and dark chocolate.

Pierrot

Name: Pierrot
Pronunciation: ˈpʲjɛrːɔt
Translation: Pierrot
Producer: E.Wedel/LOTTE
Weight: 45 g/1.59 oz
Price: 1.50 PLN/$ 0.50/€ 0.35/£ 0.30
Energy: 248 kcal

Ingredients: milk chocolate 21% (sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, dried whole milk, dried whey, milk fat, emulsifiers: soya lecithin and E 476, flavours), peanuts (paste and pieces) 25%, sugar, partially hydrogenated vegetable fat, dried whey, fat-reduced cocoa powder, dried whole milk. Milk chocolate: cocoa solids min. 31%, milk solids min. 14%.

Pierrot is a bar with peanut filling (which contains peanuts crumbs) covered with a thick layer of milk chocolate. It’s Bajeczny‘s brother in that they both developed from candies of Mieszanka Wedlowska (Wedel Mix) and initially were both scarce. Pierrot has been produced since the 1930s as a part of the mix (and since 1995 as a separate bar) by Wedel in Warsaw.

WW

Name: WW
Pronunciation: ˈvuvu
Translation: —
Producer: E.Wedel/LOTTE
Weight: 45 g/1.59 oz
Price: 1.35 PLN/$ 0.45/€ 0.35/£ 0.30
Energy: 238 kcal

Ingredients: milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, dried whole milk, lactose and milk proteins, dried whey, milk fat, emulsifiers (soya lecithin and E 476, flavours), wheat flour, vegetable fat, sugar, dried whole milk, dried whey, peanut mass (1.5%), fat-reduced cocoa powder, rye flour, sunflower oil, dried eggs, maltodextrin, emulsifier (soya lecithin), raising agents (sodium hydrogen carbonate, ammonium hydrogen carbonate, sodium pyrosulfite), salt, flavours. Milk chocolate: cocoa solids min. 29%.

WW is a bar of four finger-like wafers with peanut filling covered with milk chocolate. It’s produced in Warsaw by Wedel – one of the oldest Polish sweets and chocolate manufacturers, founded in 1851.

Bajeczny

Name: Bajeczny
Pronunciation: baˈjɛʧ̑nɨ
Translation: Fabulous
Producer: E.Wedel/LOTTE
Weight: 45 g/1.59 oz
Price: 1.50 PLN/$ 0.50/€ 0.35/£ 0.30
Energy: 549 kcal/100 g, 247 kcal/45 g

Ingredients: milk chocolate 23% (sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, dried whole milk, dried whey, milk fat, emulsifiers (soya lecithin, E 476), flavouring), sugar, partially hydrogenated vegetable fat, wheat flour, peanuts 7.8% (paste and pieces), dried whey, dried whole milk, fat-reduced cocoa powder, rye flour, sunflower oil, egg powder, desiccated coconut, maltodextrin, emulsifier (soya lecithin, invert sugar solution, dried yoghurt, salty, raising agents: sodium hydrogen carbonate, ammonium hydrogen carbohydrate, sodium metabisulphite, flavourings. Milk chocolate: cocoa solids min. 31%, milk solids min. 14%.

Bajeczny is a bar with peanut filling enriched with crumbled wafers, covered with a thin layer of milk chocolate. Originally, it was a type of a chocolate candy from Mieszanka Wedlowska (Wedel Mix – I will definitely devote one entry to the Wedel Mix in the future!). As a part of the mix, it has been produced since 1930s. Because of the special equipment required for its production it used to be (along with the Pierrot and currently-withdrawn Rekord) the rarest type in the mix. In 1995 the bigger, bar version appeared. It’s considered one of the most popular types of sweets in Poland.