Saturday, April 18, 2020

Chapon Chocolatier - Perou Gran Blanco mini bar - Apr. 18, 2020

Chocolate of the Day:

Chapon Chocolatier
Perou Gran Blanco mini bar
Good +
Weight: .176 oz. (5 g.) in 1 mini bar / 6.35 oz. (180 g.) in box of 36 mini bars
Calories: 27.7 calories for 1 mini bar
Cost: $45.00 for 1 box of 36 mini bars
Purchased from: Chocolate Covered, San Francisco, CA

Welcome to Day #5 of Chocolate and Peru Theme Week.

Today's Perou Gran Blanco* 70% dark miniature bar was from Chapon Chocolatier (Paris, France). This smooth, chocolate morsel had fruit, balanced earth and true chocolate flavor notes. (*"Blanco" likely refers to ivory or white-colored Criollo variety cacao beans used to make this bar.)

As usual, Chapon packaging--and every illustrations in miniature, printed on tiny individual wrappers--was exquisite. These colorful, nature-oriented and lushly exotic scenes are the best kind of escape in today's world. On today's Perou (Peru) bar wrapper, indigenous people on horses become almost invisible against towering tropical foliage.


Marana Craft Chocolate - Cusco, Peru 50% Milk Chocolate (bar) - Apr. 17, 2020

Chocolate of the Day: 

Marana Craft Chocolate
Cusco, Peru Single Origin - 50% Milk Chocolate (bar)
Good +++
Weight: 1.25 oz. (35 g.) / 2.5 oz. (70 g.) total bar
Calories: 200 calories (per packaging) in 1/2 bar
Cost: $7.50 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Chocosphere.com, online order

Welcome to Day #4 of Chocolate and Peru Theme Week.

Today's Cusco, Peru Single Origin 50% Cacao Milk Chocolate (bar) was made in Peru by Cacao Valley E.I.R.L./Marana Craft Chocolate (Lima, Peru).

This four-ingredient* bar had delicious peanut/nut butter and fruit notes, melded into rich, flavorful dark milk chocolate.

The maker's description read as follows: "Our Cusco collection is made from the finest "Chuncho" variety of cacao beans., grown in the fertile valleys of Quillabamba. With this chocolate, we offer an intense, nutty flavor that will transport you to the magical land of the Incas."

*Ingredients: cocoa mass, sugar, skim milk and cocoa butter


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