Dick Taylor - Single Origin Chocolate Rabbit 72% Belize - April 1, 2018

Chocolate of the Day:

Dick Taylor 

Chocolate Rabbit Single Origin 72% Belize Dark Chocolate

Very Good

Weight: 1 oz. (28.3 g.) / 2 oz. (57 g.) in total rabbit

Calories: 150 calories (estimate) in 1/2 rabbit

Cost: $15.00 for 1 rabbit

Purchased from: The Chocolate Garage, Palo Alto, CA

Bonus Feature!

This year April Fool's Day and Easter fell on the same Sunday (which also overlapped with Passover). Regardless of where and how you celebrate the return of Spring, today's bonus item would have delighted dark chocolate lovers.

Today's Single Origin 72% Dark Chocolate Chocolate Rabbit was lovely, complex, and made with Belize-grown cacao. This rabbit was not too sweet, and full of exquisitely-crafted and well-balanced flavor depth, including bold fruit, light spice and bittersweet notes.

It was the perfect finish to a great Spring celebration meal, and it was followed by a hike up in the green hills.  

Yves Thuries - Dark Chocolate Peppermint Oil and Flowers bar - April 1, 2018

Chocolate of the Day: 

Yves Thuries
Dark Chocolate with Peppermint Essential Oil and Flowers bar
Good - Good +
Weight: 1 oz. (28 g.) / 3 oz. (85 g.) in total bar
Calories: 150 calories in 5 pieces of bar
Cost: $2.99 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Grocery Outlet Bargain Market, Palo Alto, CA

Welcome to Day #10 of Chocolate and Flowers Theme Week.

Today's Dark Chocolate with Peppermint Essential Oil and Flowers bar from Yves Thuries (France) was made in France with cacao from the company's plantation in Ecuador.

Yves Thuries is award-winning French Chef that who made his name in cookies and pastry. This namesake chocolate bar was manufactured by Excellent SAS Marssac Sur Tarn, France, and distributed by Salpa Inc. (Greenwich, CT).

This 70% cocoa dark bar consisted of smooth dark chocolate and creamy peppermint ganache (filling); and the pretty, sparkly green, mint chips were sweet and slightly crunchy and flavored with both peppermint oil and flowers as well as other ingredients.*

*The ingredients list: Chocolate liquor, sugar, cocoa butter, mint chip (sugar, mint flower, acacia gum, sodium copper chlorophyllin color, artificial flavor), whole milk powder, water, sorbitol, butterfat, dextrose, glycerol, soy lecithin, natural flavors mint and vanilla"