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2 Chicks with Chocolate – Cocoa Tiles and Chocolate Pops

August 5th, 2010 · No Comments · chocolate

As regular readers are probably aware by now, I’m on a simple quest to try and find the best spicy chocolates I can find. Dark, milk, whatever, as long as it’s gots some of dat heat!

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Dolfin Chocolat Au Lait Au Hot Masala

December 16th, 2009 · No Comments · chocolate

Dolfin is a fantabulous Belgian chocolate maker. They have a number of interesting sounding chocolates, so on a recent trip to NYC we picked a couple up to try. Two words made this an easy pick: hot masala.

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Chuao Spicy Maya

September 11th, 2008 · No Comments · chocolate

Heaven in a bar? here it is: cocoa, cinnamon, spices, chilies perfectly blended together. Short and sweet: perfect sweetness, creamy chocolate, complex character from cinnamon and chilies. These guys from Carlsbad, California make a damn good chocolate. We picked this up in Wegman’s, where it was significantly higher in price than other bars, but I [...]

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Choxie dark chocolate Ceylon spice bar

June 15th, 2008 · No Comments · chocolate

Found this in the discount bin of our local Target. This is a nice, fairly spicy bar, with good texture from the cocao been nibs mixed in. I was surprised, honestly, with the balance of ingredients in this bar; it’s not what we expected.

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Vosges – Red Fire Bar

December 31st, 2007 · No Comments · chocolate

Chocolate intended for Aztecs. Delicious. Dark chocolate with a slow-building ancho and chipotle chili undertone. Cinnamon nicely bridges the spice with the chocolate, and fills the gap on flavor between the burnt caramel chocolate and the crescendo of the chilies. 4 yr. old: “I don’t like it. It’s too spicy” (Note: she also feels candy [...]

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