Saturday, July 9, 2022

Exquisito Chocolates - Cafe Con Leche Per'La Coffee (bar) - July 9, 2022

Chocolate of the Day

Exquisito Chocolates
Cafe Con Leche with Per'La Coffee (bar)
Good ++
Weight: 1.25 oz. (35.5 g.) / 2.5 oz. (71 g.) in total bar
Calories: 194 calories (estimate) in 1/2 bar
Cost: $8.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Exquisito Chocolates, online order

Welcome to Day #8 of Chocolate and Coffee Theme Week.

Today's Cafe Con Leche with Per'La Coffee (bar) was handcrafted by Exquisito Chocolates (in Little Havana, Miami, FL). 

The company (a small batch chocolate factory and retail shop) offers a line of truffles, bars and confections, including bean-to-bar and single origin chocolates.*

Today's smooth, creamy and cocoa-buttery dark coffee bar was a seamless blend of sweet, authentic coffee blended with 63% cacao dark chocolate. 

The espresso used to make this bar was from Miami-based Per'La Specialty Roasters.

All five ingredients were very effectively used and were well balanced. (No preservatives or emulsifiers.)

Ingredients: Cacao beans, unrefined cane sugar, cocoa butter, milk, espresso.

Allergy-related information: (Contained milk) (No other information on package. See website more more detail.)

*Exquisito Chocolates owner/founder, Carolina Quijano, has described a chocolate maker as a "masochistic chocolatier who also self-produces chocolate from cocoa beans." 

Humorous and very true. A chocolatier can buy blocks of chocolate from a chocolate maker; but a chocolate maker (making chocolates from scratch) must go through many more steps to create bean-to-bar chocolate.


Exquisito Chocolates - "Miami Vice" Cafe con Leche + Dulce de Leche chocolate - July 8, 2022

Chocolate of the Day

Exquisito Chocolates
"Miami Vice"
Cafe con Leche + Dulce de Leche chocolate
Good ++
Weight: .5 oz. (14.1 g.) / 3 oz. (85 g.) (estimate) in 6-piece assortment box
Calories: 77 calories (estimate) in 1 piece
Cost: $3.50 for 1 piece ($21.00 for a 6-piece assortment box) 
Purchased from: Exquisito Chocolates, online order

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

Today's "Miami Vice" (Cafe con Leche + Dulce de Leche) chocolate was from Exquisito Chocolates (Little Havana, Miami, FL). These two flavors were part of a 6-piece Artisan Collection assortment box.

This festive ("painted" with tiny speckles of hot pink and turquoise) domed chocolate combined two Miami flavors: cafe con leche (coffee with milk) and dulce de leche (caramelized/cooked milk)

Aroma flavor notes for this smooth, flavorful and sweet Miami-infused confection included chocolate with a hint of coffee caramel.

Ingredients: (Not listed on box)

Allergen-related information: (Not listed on box) 

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