Sunday, September 4, 2022

Oregon Orchard - Milk Chocolate Hazelnuts - Sept. 4, 2022

Chocolate of the Day

Oregon Orchard
Premium Milk Chocolate Hazelnuts
Good - Good +
Weight: 1.06 oz. (30 g.) / 6 oz. (170 g.) in total package
Calories: 170 calories in 1 serving
Cost: $3.49 for 1 package
Purchased from: Grocery Outlet Bargain Market, Palo Alto, CA

Welcome to Day #6 of Chocolate and Nuts Theme Week.

Today's Oregon Orchard Premium Milk Chocolate Hazelnuts Theme Week were distributed by Hazelnut Growers of Oregon (HGO) (Donald, OR). HGO is an agricultural co-operative that offers "value-added products" using hazelnuts from 200+ local (Oregon) farmers, including chocolate covered and seasoned nuts. 

The aroma for these glossy rounds included sweet, nutty and milk chocolate notes

The texture: a blend of sweet, creamy (emulsified) and mild milk chocolate coating and softly crunchy hazelnuts at the center.

The sweetness level for these confections was a bit high for me. The flavors felt somewhat eclipsed by sugar. (I love complex cacao flavors and have an admitted bias for bean-to-bar dark chocolates.) Both the milk chocolate and the hazelnut flavor were very subtle with fleeting authentic hazelnut, as well as warm vanilla cocoa, notes. 

These chocolate covered, dry roasted hazelnuts were well executed and there were no off flavors; but I would have loved to have seen a bit more authentic cacao and hazelnut complexity shining through.

Ingredients: Milk Chocolate [(sugar, unsweetened chocolate, milk, cocoa butter), sunflower lecithin, vanillin], dry roasted hazelnuts, gum arabic, confectioners glaze.

Allergen-related information: Contains: Milk, tree nuts. "Processed in a facility that uses milk, soy, wheat and other tree nuts."




Creative Snacks Co. - Dark Chocolate Cashews - Sept. 3, 2022

Chocolate of the Day

Creative Snacks Co.
Dark Chocolate Cashews
Good 
Weight: 1.06 oz. (30 g.) / 9.5 oz. (269 g.) in total container
Calories: 160 calories in 1 serving (5 pieces)
Cost: $5.99 for 1 container
Purchased from: Grocery Outlet Bargain Market, Palo Alto, CA 

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

Today's Dark Chocolate Cashews were packed by Creative Snacks Co. (High Point, NC).

The aroma for these dark chocolate covered nuts included: very subtle, sweet, slightly earthy, and dark berry jam notes.

The texture was a blend of a generously thick layer of smooth dark chocolate covering and softly crunchy cashew nut centers.

Flavor notes included: smooth, sweet and relatively mild dark chocolate; fruity (dark berry jam); light vanilla; nut; and faint, fleeting earth.

Ingredients: Dark chocolate coating (sugar, chocolate liquor processed with alkali, cocoa butter, butterfat [milk], soy lecithin, and vanilla), cashews (cashews, canola oil), corn syrup, modified starch (tapioca), confectioner's glaze. 

Allergen-related information: Contains tree nuts, (cashews), milk and soy. "May contain peanuts, tree nuts, milk, soy, egg, wheat and sesame seeds."


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