Saturday, June 15, 2019

Zak's Chocolate - 70% Cacao Nicaragua bar - June 15, 2019

Chocolate of the Day: 

Zak's Chocolate
70% Cacao Nicaragua bar
Good + - Good ++
Weight: .9 oz. (25 g.) / 1.8 oz. (50 g.) (per label) in total bar
Calories: 135 calories (estimate) in 1/2 bar
Cost: $11.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Chocolate Covered, San Francisco, CA

Welcome to Day #8 of Chocolate and Nicaragua Theme Week, featuring another attractively packaged artisan chocolate bar.

Today's 70% Nicaragua bar was made by Zak's Chocolate, a craft chocolate and confection maker with a small factory and retail space in Scottsdale,  AZ.

This single origin bar had a pleasing complex aroma with balanced green, fruit, bitter, chocolate, earth and light spice notes. The flavor was smooth with medium fruit acidity and a very faint roasted coffee note.

Ingredients: "Nicaragua Matagalpa cacao, organic cane sugar, Nicaragua Matagalpa cacao butter pressed in house" (Matagalpa is a relatively mountainous cacao-, coffee- and tobacco-growing region (department) in Nicaragua.)





Omnom Chocolate - Milk of Nicaragua 50% bar - June 14, 2019

Chocolate of the Day: 

Omnom Chocolate
Milk of Nicaragua 50% bar
Good+
Weight: 1.05 oz. (30 g.) / 2.1 oz. (60 g.) in total bar
Calories: 160 calories (estimate) in 1/2 bar
Cost: $9.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Chocolate Covered, San Francisco, CA

Welcome to Day #7 of Chocolate and Nicaragua Theme Week.

Today's Milk of Nicaragua 50% bar was handcrafted in Iceland by Omnom Chocolate (Reykjavik, Iceland).

This attractively packaged bar was relatively complex and interesting for a milk chocolate containing only 50% cacao.

The single origin, small batch milk bar possessed rich authentic caramel flavor; and even the texture (with a slightly gummy melt) was reminiscent of caramel.

The two founders (Kjartan and Oskar ) source their cacao beans from Madagascar, Tanzania and, most recently, Nicaragua. Today's bar was made with an organic O'payo cacao, one of several varieties of cacao offered by Ingemann Fine Cacao (Tipitapa, Nicaragua).

The OmNom makers use cane sugar from Brazil, and milk and sea salt from Iceland.

Ingredients: "Organic cocoa beans from Nicaragua, organic cane sugar, cocoa butter, Icelandic milk powder, sunflower lecithin (E322)."


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