Chocolate of the Day
Fortunato Chocolate
Milk Chocolate Peanut Clusters
Good ++
Weight: 4 oz. (113 g.) / 8 oz. (226 g.) in total package
Calories: 650 calories in 1/2 package
Cost: $9.99 for 1 package
Purchased from: Fortunato Chocolate, online order
Welcome to Day #5 of Chocolate and Peru Theme Week.
Today's Milk Chocolate Peanut Clusters were from Fortunato Chocolate (Issaquah, WA).
Aroma notes included: milk chocolate, roasted peanuts, and peanut brittle.
Texture: creamy milk chocolate chock full of crunchy roasted peanuts.
Flavor notes included: sweet, creamy milk chocolate and salted, roasted peanuts. These clusters were creamy, crunchy, and had enough sugar and salt to land in the tasty, addictive snack zone. (Caution: do not start eating these if you're overly hungry. It's easy to mow through multiple servings.)
The higher sugar 36+% (and milk 27%) content made it difficult to detect cacao flavor nuances. However, the salt helped balance the sweetness a bit.
Ingredients: Roasted Peanuts, 36% Fortunato Milk Chocolate (Organically grown cacao and cocoa butter 36.2%, whole/skim milk and cream 27.02%, cane sugar 36.69%, soy lecithin 0.07%, vanilla 0.02%), sea salt.
Allergen-related information: Contains peanuts, milk, soy. May contain traces of almonds and hazelnuts.
