1/2 bar
Madre Chocolate
Pink Peppercorn Smoked Salt (bar)
Very Good
Weight: .75 oz. (21.5 g.) / 1.5 oz. (43 g.) total bar
Calories: 109 calories (estimate)
Cost: $12.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: The Chocolate Garage, in Palo Alto, CA
Today was Day #3 of Chocolate and Pepper Theme Week. This week focuses primarily on add-ins to chocolates in the form of peppercorns, often accompanied by a little salt. Happily, there are chocolates available now with almost every type and color of peppercorn imaginable.Today's bar was unique, and place-specific in just about every way -- from the bar's molded design that includes Maya-influenced, historic totem-like figures, to incorporation of locally grown island cacao and other ingredients. Madre Chocolate's 70% dark "Locavore" (vegan, soy-free) bar was rich and fruity tasting, and riddled with flecks of rosy-colored, Hawaiian pink peppercorn -- from the peppercorn skins is my guess. Madre Chocolate specializes in hand-crafted, lightly processed, bean-to-bar items, made from locally grown cacao. For example, the smoked sea salt and pink peppercorns in this bar are from Hawaii as well. The only ingredient not from Hawaii that I could see: a hint of Mexican vanilla.
3 comments:
I love the Madre molding. Have you had the plain Hawaiian chocolate bar? It has a complex but mild flavor. Very nice.
A chocolate bar a day bet - I love it! You're my kind of daredevil. A dare to eat something delicious, healthy and fun every day...no downside to this one.
Have you tried our triple cacao bar? Bold cacao nibs and fruity cacao pulp bathed in organic (& fair) 70% dark chocolate. Maybe you should eat it to celebrate day 365 of your bet! We just sent a new order of them off to Sunita at the Chocolate Garage.
Thanks! I do indeed have a triple cacao bar (from Sunita at the Chocolate Garage). And I love cacao fruit, so I'm looking forward to trying/featuring this bar soon.
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