Dark Horse Chocolates - Grand Prix Jumpers - Dark Chocolate and Caramel - Aug. 8, 2024

Chocolate of The Day 

Harbor Sweets
Dark Horse Chocolates - Grand Prix Jumpers - Dark Chocolate & Caramel 
Good +
Weight: 1.01 oz. (28.6 g.)  / 7 7/8 oz. (223 g.) in an assortment box of 16 pieces
Calories: 133 calories in 2 pieces (per label)
Cost: $29.50 for 1 box of 16 pieces (3 different flavors)
Purchased from: Harbor Sweets, online order

Welcome to Day #6 of Chocolate and Horses Theme Week, and Day #1 of Chocolate and Honey Week.

Today's Grand Prix Jumpers Dark Chocolate & Caramel confections were from Harbor Sweets (Salem, MA). These were part of a 3-flavor, English Assortment box of horse-related dark chocolates. 

Note: one of the other flavors was a dark chocolate and peppermint crunch pony (featured earlier this week). And the peppermint scent (while lovely on its own) wafted over to these adjacent dark chocolate caramels and gave them a peppermint aroma and flavor as well.

Aroma notes for these "Grand Prix Jumpers" included: sweet dark chocolate, caramel, faint vanilla, and peppermint.

The dark chocolate was smooth, and the authentic caramel center was soft and slightly chewy. Flavor notes were similar to the aroma notes above and included: sweet dark chocolate (fudge brownie, very faint oxalis), chewy caramel, faint vanilla...and peppermint.

I liked the action pose captured with this jumper--the rider astride the horse, hunched forward over the horse, as the two clear a hurdle in mid-air. I could almost feel the movement--up and over, and back to earth. 

While the ingredients list for this handsome, gold-wrapped confection was a bit long on additives, it did also reveal a touch of wildflower honey and a very judicious amount of salt--both very nice.

Ingredients: "dark chocolate (sugar, chocolate liquor, chocolate liquor processed with alkali, cocoa butter, butterfat (milk), soy lecithin, vanilla), cream (light cream and sodium phosphate), tapioca syrup (tapioca starch), evaporated milk (milk, 0.5% or less of: dipotassium phosphate, carrageenan, vitamin D3), sugar, light brown sugar, butter (cream (milk), salt), wildflower honey, vanilla salt, soy lecithin, baking soda."

Allergen-related information: Contains Milk, Soy. "This product is prepared in a facility that handles soy, milk, peanuts, wheat, tree nuts and sesame."