This was an interesting find – kudos to Chelsea Market Baskets in New York City for the recommendation. Made in Italy, in the laboratorio Don Puglisi, it comes in a plain wrapper, tied with a red string, and a card: Handmade in the Aztec tradition, the unique opaque patina and rustic, brittle texture are the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'dark chocolate'
Newman’s Own Organics – Super Dark Chocolate 70%
August 17th, 2009 · No Comments · chocolate
Speaking purely as a marketer, this intrigued me on the level of curiosity. Would this compare to other dark chocolates we have sampled? Was this merely a branded version of an organic chocolate produced by some larger chocolate concern? Would this hold up? Would it have been worth it? In short, to my best estimation, [...]
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Dagoba Conacado – 73% Dark Chocolate, Dominican Republic origin
August 17th, 2009 · No Comments · chocolate
Dagoba has a phenomenal line of organic, single origin chocolates. We tried another in the line this past weekend, called “conacado,” after the Conacado Fair Trade co-op in the Dominican Republic. This is truly a wonderful chocolate – the flavor covers a wide spectrum of sweet tart fruit (cherry? cranberry?), coffee, hazelnut, and vanilla. This [...]
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Maria Tepozteca Chocolate Xocolatl (Chile)
August 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments · chocolate
Picked this interesting chocolate up while down in Cancún, Mexico. Marketed as a traditional, Aztec-style chocolate, this massive 200g bar had me at “Chile.” “It tastes sweet and a little bit spicy. And, it feels smooth and good.” – 5-year-old.
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Hershey’s Extra Dark Chocolate with pomegranate
August 7th, 2009 · No Comments · chocolate
“It’s delicious, and it has a little taste of [fruit] punch in it. It tastes a little bit like grape juice.” – 5-year-old “It tastes like Giselle.” – 3-year-old Surprisingly, it doesn’t immediately taste like Hershey’s chocolate. We think there might be a little too much pomegranate; the sweet and tart fruit almost overwhelm the [...]
Tags: apple·cranberry·dark chocolate·fruit·hershey's·pineapple·pomegranate
Chocolove Orange Peel in Dark Chocolate
June 5th, 2009 · No Comments · chocolate
Compared to the Frey orange dark chocolate, the orange flavor is much more even and subtle, but the freeze-dried orange peel itself is distracting. The chocolate is nice – the Belgian dark chocolate is smoother, more buttery, than the swiss counterpart – but it’s just those damn peels that get in the way.
Valrhona Le Noir Amer
June 5th, 2009 · No Comments · chocolate
I can’t believe this chocolate hasn;t been reviewed yet. I’m fairly certain we’ve eaten this at least a half dozen times – and probably never had enough lying around long enough to review. We usually pick this up at our local Trader Joes – and quickly devour it. This is a good, straightforward chocolate. Dark? [...]
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Cadbury Royal Dark
May 20th, 2009 · No Comments · chocolate
Never saw a dark chocolate from Cadbury here in the States, so we thought we’d pick this up for a try. The chocolate snob in us shudder at the mere thought of even trying this, but fair is fair. So, here we go: a bit too sweet for my taste. There’s a bit of a [...]
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Lindt Chili Dark
May 15th, 2009 · No Comments · chocolate
This chocolate is a tantalizing conundrum. If we look at this from the chocolate point of view, then this dark Swiss chocolate is what one would hope to have for a mass-market gourmet chocolate: it’s silky smooth, with a tantalizing mouthfeel. It’s dark – not sure exactly how dark since no cocoa percentages are on [...]
Chuao Chinita Nibs
May 14th, 2009 · No Comments · chocolate
In a word – yummerific. Ok, so I’m a little biased: I (heart) Chuao chocolates – I have yet to be disappointed. Throw in caramelized cacao nibs, nutmeg into dark chocolate and you’ve got a winner. Bonus: girls in the three- to five-year-old category appreciate the shiny purple wrapper. How can you go wrong? A [...]
Guylian Solitaires – Asian, Aztec, African dark
May 14th, 2009 · No Comments · chocolate
An assortment of solitaire-sized chocolates, this Guylian assortment presented many challenges, not the least of which was which one to try, in what order. As the anal, compulsive, chocoholics that we are, it seemed the most logical to ascertain these in ascending cocoa percentages – that is, from lightest to darkest. And so: Asian dark [...]
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Kallari 85% single source organic chocolate
January 6th, 2009 · No Comments · chocolate
Very interesting, especially comparing this to the 75% Kallari, I’m truly amazed the difference that the extra 10% makes. This is not like the 75% at all – completely different flavor spectrum, much more restrained and concentrrated. This really is a chocolate-lovers’ chocolate, but borderline too intense. The overwhelming cocoa-ness very nearly drowns out some [...]
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Kallari 75% single source organic chocolate
January 6th, 2009 · No Comments · chocolate
Wow – pleasantly surprised by this one. You get a nice coating along the sides and back of your tongue, and there’s a nice and full nutty, earthy flavor. It’s almost like eating peanut butter, where you smack the roof of your mouth, except that it’s chocolate. Five-year-old: “It tastes like peanuts.” “It’s delicious and [...]
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Godiva 50% Dark Chocolate with Orange
January 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · chocolate
As soon as we tear the trademark gold foil open, we can smell the orange – yummy. What’s interesting about this one is the initial orange note is the high sweet orange, more aromatic, but then as the chocolate dissolves, you get the deeper, heartier orange flavor and mouthfeel within the chocolate. As you would [...]
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Dagoba Single Origin 68% Organic Dark Los Rios Ecuador
January 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · chocolate
In stark contrast to the other Ecuador chocolate we just reviewed, here’s one with a much more interesting arrangment of flavors. Also from the Amazonian Ecuador region, this chocolate possessed more of a fruity cocoa flavor and a smoother mouthfeel. The chocolate itself was interesting in appearance – whether it was a brief exposure to [...]