Nestlé 100 Grand

January 1, 2009 / 0 comments

With the onset of a New Year, I thought I’d take it upon myself to make a resolution to not be so freakin’ high-falutin’ with our reviews, or at least in selecting the chocolates we end up good/bad-mouthing here. Bearing this in mind, here’s probably my all-time favorite chocolate candy bar: the humble 100 Grand…

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E. Wedel milk chocolate

October 12, 2008 / 1 comment

Just how I remember this: milky, rich chocolate. 30% cocoa, 15% milk solids, here’s a nice milk chocolate bar. It’s not as rich as some other Cadbury milk chocolates that tend to linger in your mouth and give a bit more texture and flavor (clearly, we are influenced by a sincere favoristism for Flake bars)….

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Choklad Mörk Dark Chocolate

October 12, 2008 / 0 comments

Here’s a nice, solid, well-made chocolate bar to satisfy your chocolate craving, while browsing your local IKEA. Sure, we’ve done the obligatory swedish meatballs and macaroni and cheese for lunch many times with the kids. On our most recent excursion, we noticed a case (and I do mean an IKEA case – 6 bars wide,…

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Ghiradelli Twilight Delight 72% dark chocolate

September 25, 2008 / 0 comments

I think we might have chewed this one up before, but given that we came into a bar (thank you, Beth, thank you so much, and thank you Stephenie Meyer…) we’ll take another stab at it. Here’s a bar that’s dark dark – as dark as the , um, breaking dawn? Whatever… Seriously, dear reader,…

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Chuao Spicy Maya

September 11, 2008 / 0 comments

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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Chocolove: Chilies & Cherries in Dark Chocolate

September 11, 2008 / 0 comments

This is helluva nice bar – great balance between the chili peppers and the intensely sweet cherries. If you’ll recall, these guys from Boulder made an Almonds & Cherries bar we reviewed (and liked), so our first question is: are these Michigan cherries? Or they from somewhere else? Never mind the cherries – it’s the…

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Hachez Cocoa d’Arriba – Strawberry & Pepper

September 11, 2008 / 0 comments

Strawberry and pepper? German dark chocolate? Sounded interesting. Using Ecuadorian dark chocolate, this is a mildly bitter, dark, not overly sweet chocolate. Very smooth, full-flavored, bittersweet chocolate. We think while the pepper is just about right, the strawberry could stand to be a little more prominent. As it is, it has just a hint of…

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Wegman’s 72% dark chocolate

September 11, 2008 / 0 comments

It’s dry; not a great mouthfeel. Tastes waxy or clumpy as it melts in your mouth. Basically, an average bar; nothing outstanding or noteworthy, which is a bit surprising to us über-consumers who sway towards Wegman’s and its ilk for above-average food. Two-year-old hands it back and says “no, do you have another one?” Four-year-old…

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Dove Originals: Ghana (another “rich, dark”)

September 9, 2008 / 0 comments

We’ve been a bit remiss lately – I know for a fact that there were at least three other chocolate bars lying around our high-tech chocolate FATLab (facility for analysis and testing laboratory), including a caramel-filled dark chocolate that was yummy… but that was two weeks ago, and these chocolate bars have a nasty habit…

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Russell Stover Urban Chocolates

September 9, 2008 / 0 comments

While hunting around our local Wal-Mart, I stumbled across these in a discount endcap. I realize the notion of a discount rack in Wal-Mart should raise some red flags, but given this item’s name, and that was a a buck or two (I can’t remember the price anymore), I decided it was worth investigating. Worth…

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Ethel M Mocha Cappuccino in dark chocolate

June 15, 2008 / 0 comments

From Ethel M in Vegas we picked up a small chocolate bar to try. For those who don’t recognize the brand, Ethel’s is to M&M’s as Lexus is to Toyota. Whenever in Vegas, we’ll try to pick up some of their truffles – they have some really wonderful alcoholic-inspired ones, like the margarita and the…

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Trader Joe’s swiss 71% dark chocolate

June 15, 2008 / 0 comments

Like Costco, Trader Joe’s is a supplier of all good things, in our view. So how could you go wrong with a 71% cocao dark chocolate bar from them? Especially when it’s made in Switzerland, with fairly traded cocao beans? Well, the answer is you can’t. This a good, solid, smooth bar with a great…

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Frey Supreme Hot Chili Pepper

June 15, 2008 / 0 comments

One look at the bright red wrapper of this bar and you would think we’ve finally found the end-all of spicy chocolate bars: two chili peppers and a piece of chocolate are pictured with “Extra Fine dark chocolate with chili.”

Dagoba organic chocolate Lavender

June 15, 2008 / 0 comments

We really like some of these Dagoba bars we have managed to find. We hadn’t noticed this one before and were immediately intrigued by the concept: blueberries and lavender. This has a really great aroma and mouthfeel – the lavender is a wonderful complement to the blueberries. Like other Dagoba dark chocolate, this has a…

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Choxie dark chocolate Ceylon spice bar

June 15, 2008 / 0 comments

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.