Turn up the heat! Finally, a dark chocolate with some teeth. Dry chilies that kick it up a notch. Frey chocolates, a Swiss chocolate company (the only one left?) recently introduced to the American market via Target stores. And all we can say is: thanks, Target! Here’s a dark chocolate with oomph. The chili creeps [...]
Entries from March 28th, 2008
Frey Chocolate Hot Chili Pepper
March 28th, 2008 · No Comments · chocolate
Tags: chili pepper·dark chocolate
Frey Chocolate Citron & Poivre (lemon & pepper)
March 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments · chocolate
Wow – once in a while you try a chocolate that really makes you stop and think about what you’re trying. This is one of them – what a delicious combination of dark swiss chocolate (55%), lemon powder and black pepper. Made by Frey Chocolate, a Swiss chocolatier recently (2006?) introduced their chocolate into the [...]
Tags: lemon·pepper·swiss dark chocolate
Mo’s Bacon Bar
March 21st, 2008 · No Comments · chocolate
Yeah yeah, I know, we have a review of this bar already. It’s just that after focusing several fruity chocolate bars, my thoughts turn to meat. And this is such a great chocolate. What really triggered this? It was the seeds from the freeze dried raspberries of a Chocolove bar that got me hankering for [...]
Tags: bacon
Chocolove Dark Raspberry
March 21st, 2008 · No Comments · chocolate
A nice dark semi-sweet bar from the Chocolove folks in Boulder – made with freeze-dried raspberries and 55% dark chocolate. An interesting comparison to their Cherry-Almond bar: the seeds of the raspberries provide the crunchiness amongst one’s teeth after all the chocolate has melted away. With a great belgian chocolate base, this is a another [...]
Tags: dark chocolate·raspberries
Chocolove Cherries & Almonds in Dark Chocolate
March 21st, 2008 · No Comments · chocolate
So I’m not a huge almond lover – not in my top ten favorite nuts – but in this chocolate bar, I think it works wonderfully. You try to break off a piece of this bar, and you can see almonds, but you can’t get to them because the dried cherries are keeping everything together [...]
Dagoba Super Fruit dark chocolate
March 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · chocolate
The third chocolate in our Dagoba trilogy this evening is the Super Fruit. Made with acai powder, goji berries and currants – where does these guys in Oregon come up with these ingredients? It’s not like we walk into a Trader Joes and find this in the dried fruit and nuts section… So goji berries [...]
Dagoba Xocolatl dark chocolate, chilis and nibs
March 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment · chocolate
So I’m reading this label and wondering what the heck ‘nibs’ are. Are nibs to cocoa beans what giblets are to turkey? Turns out, it’s probably what you expect it to be: roasted cocoa beans, broken into smaller pieces, essentially a purist’s version of chocolate chips. Back to the chocolate – like the Lemon-Ginger chocolate [...]
Dagoba Organic Chocolate Lemon Ginger
March 14th, 2008 · No Comments · chocolate
Found this other organic chocolate line from Oregon – a nice base chocolate, with crystallized ginger and a hint of lemon. The chocolate is well-made, smooth and even-tasting: not too bitter, not too sweet. Ok, so maybe for my taste it’s not too bitter, I admit I like chocolate on the bitter side, to better [...]