ChocolateBet: February 5, 2012

Chocolate of the Day: 

Madre Chocolate
Passion Fruit bar
Good + - Very Good
Weight: .5 oz. (14.1 g.) / 1.5 oz. (43 g.) total bar
Calories: 75 calories (estimate)
Cost: $12.00 (estimate)
Purchased from: The Chocolate Garage, in Palo Alto, CA

Today I continued the Hawaii/Islands Theme Week that I started yesterday with a Passion Fruit dark bar from Madre Chocolate (Honolulu, HI).



Made from Big Island Hawai'i cacao beans and passion fruit, the bar had a rich, dark chocolate base, with faint earth and coffee notes, paired with the slightly acidic taste of dried passion fruit bits. It was an interesting mix, perhaps not for everyone; but it grew on me. It was lovely to taste some chocolate grown in Hawaii -- the only U.S. state where (as far as I know) it's possible to grow cacao outdoors.

ChocolateBet: February 4, 2012

Chocolate of the Day: 

Madre Chocolate
rosita de cacao bar
Very Good
Weight: .5 oz. (14.1 g.)/ 1.5 oz. (43 g.) total bar
Calories: 75 calories (estimate)
Cost: $12.00 (estimate)
Purchased from: The Chocolate Garage, in Palo Alto, CA

Today was the last (Day #7) day of Chocolate + Hearts and Flowers Theme Week, and Day #1 of Chocolate and Islands Theme Week. And what a beautiful intersection of these two worlds this 70% dark bar was from Madre Chocolate (Honolulu, HI).

The rosita de cacao bar was made with rich, dark, fair trade Dominican cacao, with earthy and floral (rosita de cacao) notes. I could easily imagine being in the middle of a tropical jungle when I took a bite of this bar.