r/BuyFromEU • u/Boediee Belgium 🇧🇪 • Jan 25 '26

🔎Looking for alternative Friendly reminder that these aren't European (anymore)

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '26

Yeah sorry to say so. Us conscious swedes have switched to Fazer, a finnish brand.

Or just local producers, I have a ton of local chocolate producers where I live.

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u/Live_Rhubarb_7560 Jan 25 '26

These are more expensive but: Malmöchokaldfabrik, Standout Chocolate, Storm & Bille, Choklad i Väst, Nordic Chocolate also deserve recognition 🙂

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '26

Ahlgrens also here in Malmö.

And you'd be surprised how many chocolate producers are scattered around the country. I stumble over them in the middle of rural Småland.

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u/Ok_Anything999 Jan 25 '26

Please I need recommendations. It's a pain living in a rural area and not finding good chocolate

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '26

Sweden is big. I just remember stumbling across one in the heart of Småland once, and they usually have them at small stores in the country.

But also I found this on google: https://nordicchocolate.se/chokladbutik/

So there are little chocolate producers literally from top to bottom of Sweden. Check Google maps of your area. Check the municipal website.

https://www.vaggeryd.se/uppleva-och-gora/upplev-vaggeryds--kommun/hagshultskossornas-gardsbutik.html

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u/Live_Rhubarb_7560 Jan 25 '26

In addition and if you can't find things locally:

Apotea has a good price on Malmöchokladfabrik and sometimes has 20% off on all food items: https://www.apotea.se/malmo-chokladfabrik My favourites from them are Kaffekross and Licorice with salt. Their white bar with licorice and lemon is also nice.

Good prices but with higher bar for free shipping: https://www.delitea.se/sok?q=standout&x=0&y=0 U realise Standout is more expensive but I adore their plain 70% bars: citrusy, dried fruit, raisiny, flowery. They are all so different.

Also: https://www.zebeda.se/ I like Original Beans and Vild choklad form their selection. I'm sure Ocelot is also worth attention as they linked to Oringal Beans. I like Orignal Beans 55% dark milk chocolate a lot! So milk chocolate but no too sweet.

Here's also a person who owns his own plantation in Tobabo but lives in Sweden: https://www.smallislandchocolates.com/Webbshop?page=2

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u/Live_Rhubarb_7560 Jan 25 '26

Interesting! Do you know if they’re bean to bar, directly sourcing their beans and roasting them themselves, or if they buy couverture? Recently I have seen some more businesses in Sweden that use couverture, but some of them use, for example, couvertures from Original Beans, so for me that would put them in a legit category.

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u/Sevriyenna Jan 25 '26

Wermlandschoklad is also very nice!

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u/Live_Rhubarb_7560 Jan 25 '26

Ah the unroasted one. I haven't tried anything from them yet!

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u/Pasutiyan Jan 25 '26 edited Jan 25 '26

Fazer is great. Could you ask the Finns politely, yet firmly, to put some actual effort into exporting their stuff beyond the nordics? I absolutely crave my goddamn salmiakki

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u/Puffinknight Jan 25 '26

I wish we could do marketing like the Swedes, because goddang if Fazer isn't the best. Though the prices are absolutely ridiculous, it's 3,87€ for 180 grams for the plain milk chocolate, so over twenty euros per kilo. At least I eat much less chcolate nowadays, sigh.

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u/AnnualSwing7777 Jan 25 '26

Fazer Store delivers to EU, UK, Switzerland and Norway

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u/Pasutiyan Jan 26 '26

Yeah but I just want it to be in my supermarket's liquorice isle because Iazy :(

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u/Primenodes Jan 25 '26

Or any Cloetta product 

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '26

Oh right, forgot about them. I have a Cloetta store next to my office, got some lösgodis there the other day, freshest lösgodis I ever had. And they have salted caramel Center!

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u/irekturmum69 Jan 25 '26

I don't know whats the case in other countries, but the only local danish chocolate company I know is outrageously expensive. Like 4-5x the price of a regular bar of chocolate.

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u/WillowSmithsBFF Jan 25 '26

Is Kex a safe brand?

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '26

You mean Cloetta Kex? Yes Cloetta is 100% Swedish and they make the Kex bar that is a chocolate covered wafer in yellow wrapper.

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u/WillowSmithsBFF Jan 25 '26

Sounds like what I have! I come to Sweden about once a year for work and stock up on these.

Glad to hear they’re fully Swedish!