Jelina Chocolatier has long been one of my favorite chocolate makers that I discovered at Sweets and Snacks. The Earl Grey in 72% cacao was a free sample and the one that I was most wary of tasting, as tea flavored chocolates have never been my favorite. The dark, woodsy chocolate had the strong scent…
Category: fair trade
Madécasse Chocolate – Sea Salt & Nibs
On Wednesday, I covered Mad?casse Chocolate’s Pink Pepper & Citrus bar. They make bean-to-bar chocolate in Madagascar, which, in addition to paying their cocoa farmers a fair price, generates 4 times the impact of Fair Trade. Today, I’m writing up their Sea Salt & Nibs bar, which brags that it was Best in Show in…
Madécasse Chocolate – Pink Pepper & Citrus
Mad?casse Chocolate is a new company to me. They’re “bean-to-bar in Madagascar” and, though they’re not Fair Trade certified (probably due to the expense), they claim that their business practices generate 4 times the impact of fair trade cocoa. Pink Pepper & Citrus was 63% cocoa, pink pepper, & combava fruit. Combava fruit sounds super…
Guest Post: Zotter Mitzi Blue Nussmix (Nut Mix)
Here’s another great guest post from my ex-pat friend, Neil. Jealous that Zotter is so easy for him to get! ~Rosa I didn’t even have to travel out of the country for this one! I found the Zotter Mitzi Blue Nussmix (“Nut mix”) in a new organic gourmet shop in town. I was looking for…
Jelina Chocolatier – Honey Nougat and Maple Crunch
Jelina Chocolatier was one of the most interesting booths for me at Sweets and Snacks. At the time, they were a Canadian chocolate company looking for a US distributor. I hope they managed to strike a deal to get themselves sold in the US! Their line of chocolate bars included many intriguing offerings. Luckily for…
Endangered Species – Dark Chocolate with Hazelnut Toffee
Endangered Species is a brand that I’ve had a few times but only properly reviewed once. A sale at Whole Foods prompted me to pick up a couple of bars for review. Their gimmick is that they give 10% of their profits for animal conservation. As an added plus, their cacao is “100% ethically traded”,…
Sweetriot – Pure 70% and 85% Chocolate Bars!
Today I’m reviewing the rest of my free samples of Sweetriot’s new riotBar line: the pure 70% and pure 85% dark chocolate bars. I covered the 60% dark chocolate with crunchy cacao nibs on Wednesday. Like the 60%, both of these bars were too lightly scored to be useful for clean snapping. The 70% (top)…
Sweetriot – Pure 60% Dark Chocolate! [Review]
Sweetriot?recently sent me free samples of their?new line of chocolate riotBars.?Before the riotBar additions, they sold chocolate in unBars, which were in thick, unwieldy blocks. I have an unBar that’s been?kicking around my stash?for a while. I’ve yet to open it because it seemed so cumbersome to eat. Sweetriot is also known for their cacao…
Javaz Dark
Here’s the second of the two bags of Javaz that I found at Cost Plus World Market. I reviewed the milk ones on Wednesday, and today’s review is of the dark version. As I noted on Wednesday, Javaz are chocolate covered coffee beans that are then covered with a shiny sugar shell. The milk ones…
Javaz Milk
I found two bags of Javaz candies at Cost Plus World Market.?I’ll review the milk ones today and save the dark ones for Friday. They’re chocolate covered coffee beans – a once novel treat that’s become fairly run of the mill these days – but with a twist: they’re also covered with a candy shell….
