ChocolateBet: December 19, 2011

Chocolate of the Day:

1 bar
Godiva
Peppermint in Dark Chocolate bar
Good + - Very Good
Weight: 1.5 oz. (43 g.) total bar
Calories: 230 calories in 1 bar
Cost: $0.15 (with store coupon)
Purchased from: Kohl's, in Mountain View, CA

Today was Day #4 of Chocolate and Peppermint Candy Cane Theme Week. Santa's elves were presumably hard at work whipping up candy cane flecks -- from the canes shown on the wrapper -- to create the light pink peppermint filling for these dark chocolate truffle bars. Each of the four squares marked off on this bar were branded with the distinctive letter "G" for Godiva.

I liked that this bar was not too sugary sweet. The texture of the chocolate was what I'll call fudge clay like -- but not in a bad way. The chocolate was substantial enough to prevent any peppermint filling from leaking out of the bar, without being too hard and waxy as overly thick molded coverture chocolate can be. Eminently practical if you're packing this bar for a snack in the cold mornings or the warmer afternoons.