Chip’n Dipped Hot! Chocolate

May 30, 2013 / 0 comments

On first bite, the dark chocolate in this bar (63%) comes through alone: it’s good, it’s okay, it’s dark chocolate. This is supposed to be spicy chocolate, so then I’m waiting for the heat to kick in, after all, this is called Hot! Chocolate.

Wild Ophelia New Orleans Chili

May 24, 2013 / 0 comments

One of our favorite chocolate makers, Katrina, of Vosges Haut-Chocolat fame, has another line of chocolates inspired by a cross-country trip across the U.S., and the inevitable attraction to local flavors that such a trip would impart: peaches, pecans, barbecue-flavored potato chips…