Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Coblentz Chocolate - Dark Chocolate Espresso Beans - Apr. 25, 2023

Chocolate of the Day

Coblentz Chocolate Company 
Dark Chocolate Espresso Beans 
Good + - Good ++
Weight: 1 oz. (28.3 g.) / 6 oz. (170 g.) total package
Calories: 155 calories (estimate) in 1 oz. (28.3 g.) serving 
Cost: $10.99 for 1 package
Purchased from: The Market at Edgewood, Palo Alto, CA

Welcome to Day #11 of Chocolate and Coffee Theme Week.

Today's Dark Chocolate Espresso Beans were from Coblentz Chocolate Company (Walnut Creek, OH). 

Aroma notes for these glossy, ebony-colored pearls included: dark chocolate and faint coconut.

These dark chocolate covered coffee beans were a well-balanced blend of smooth and crunchy, and sweet and dark. Bold, but smooth, unsweetened, espresso roast coffee beans were housed inside a coat of relatively velvety, smooth and uniform dark chocolate. 

Just a small handful of these flavorful, but not overly sweet (or addictive), small dark orbs satisfied a dark chocolate craving; and provided a perfect morning boost.

Ingredients: Dark chocolate (sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, chocolate liquor processed with alkali, butterfat, soy lecithin (emulsifier), natural vanilla flavor, salt), coffee beans, water, gum arabic, confectioners glaze, modified starch (tapioca), vegetable oil (coconut, canola)

Allergen-related information: Contains: milk, soy



Chocolarder - Maleku Upala, Costa Rica 70% Dark Chocolate (bar) - Apr. 23, 2023

Chocolate of the Day

Chocolarder
Maleku Upala, Costa Rica 70% Dark Chocolate (bar)
Good + - Good ++
Weight:1.25 oz. (35 g.)/ 2.5 oz. (70 gram in total bar)
Calories: 185.8 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost $10.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Bar and Cocoa, online order

Welcome to Day #9 of Chocolate and Coffee Theme Week. This week's chocolates include coffee in many forms including: brewed, ground, and whole beans. 

Today's chocolate doesn't contain coffee, but it has coffee taste or "notes"--earning it a spot in this group.

The Maleku* Costa Rica 70% bar was from small batch, craft chocolate maker, Chocolarder (Falmouth, Cornwall, England).

This dark chocolate was made using Costa Rica-grown cacao. (Producer: Nahua Cacao.)

This relatively thick bar broke with a hard snap in a cool room (67 degrees F. / 19.4 degrees C.); and it had a smooth and uniform texture, with a very slight astringency (dryness) toward the finish.

The dark chocolate was a unique blend of complex aromas and flavors. 

Notes included: chocolate (fermented cacao, mocha, ganache), faint light green, floral botanical, citrus, faint pine (faint, fleeting sweet resin), and fruit (ripe yellow/orange fruit: pureed ripe banana, loquat and sweet pumpkin), fig, and fleeting goji berry. An initial faint overripe fruit note subsided after initial detection.

Maker's tasting notes: "Rich cocoa flavours with notes of coffee, fig, and caramelised banana"

Ingredients: Cocoa beans, raw unrefined sugar.

Allergen-related information: Made in a facility that also handles tree nuts and milk.

* The Maleku are "an indigenous people who still inhabit Costa Rica..." One estimate puts their remaining tribe members at only 650. 




The Xocolate Bar - Cafe Con Leche (bar) - Apr. 24, 2023

Chocolate of the Day

The Xocolate Bar
Cafe Con Leche (bar)
Good ++
Weight: 2 oz. (57 g.) in total bar
Calories: 310 calories (estimate) in 1/2 bar
Cost: $14.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: The Phoenix (shop), Big Sur, CA

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

Today's Cafe Con Leche (bar) was from The Xocolate Bar (Berkeley, CA)

Aroma notes included: chocolate, mocha and roasted nut (peanut butter). (There were no nut or peanut ingredients in this bar.)

Rich, creamy, sweet milk chocolate surrounded crunchy whole, roasted (flavorful, relatively low acid) coffee beans (with nut, roasted coffee and mellow wood notes). The crunchy (whole) coffee beans helped balance out the sweetness to create a very harmonious flavor blend. 

Ingredients: Organic, fair trade milk chocolate (organic sugar, 40% cacao, organic milk, sunflower lecithin), roasted coffee beans

Allergy-related information: (None found on packaging.)








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