Ragged Coast Chocolates - Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups - Aug. 1, 2024

Chocolate of the Day

Ragged Coast Chocolates
Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
Good ++
Weight: (Not listed on package)
Calories: (Not listed on package)
Cost: $11.95 for 1 package of 5 cups
Purchased from: Ragged Coast Chocolates, online order

Welcome to Day #6 of Chocolate and Peanut Theme Week--featuring a variety of different high-end chocolates, confections and a few protein/snack bars.

Today's Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups from Ragged Coast Chocolates (Westbrook, ME) garnered a 2023 Good Food Awards win in the Confections category.

Aroma notes included: dark chocolate, faint nuts, and very faint aromatic (jasmine) rice.

Texture: very smooth dark chocolate with silken peanut butter center(s).

Layered flavor notes for these cups included: smooth dark chocolate; the aforementioned, silky, peanut butter center; and light sparkles of (Maine) sea salt.

I loved that these peanut butter cups were not overly sweet (thank you!). I also appreciated the short list of ingredients, the layered flavors and the use of single origin dark chocolate. The levels of salt and sugar were both in the Goldilocks* zone for me.

Ingredients: "Directly traded and sustainably grown bittersweet chocolate from Ecuador (cocoa mass, cocoa butter, sugar, soy lecithin, natural vanilla extract), organic peanut butter, organic cane sugar, cocoa butter, Maine sea salt."

Allergen-related information: "Allergens: Peanut, Soy" ("Dairy Free")

*The Goldilocks zone is a reference to a European folk tale. In the U.S. version of this tale, a girl (named Goldilocks), breaks into a house belonging to three bears and she eventually finds items inside that are, for her, just right. (The first bowl of porridge left on the table was too hot, the second bowl was too cold; but the last one was just right. The same sequence of events were repeated with the chairs and the beds she found.) 

You might also hear a version of the Goldilocks zone reference from astronomers; e.g., that planet is too hot and that planet is too cold. But conditions on this planet may be just right to sustain life, water or other favorable conditions. (Earth is a great example of being in the zone, and why I've been able to write about a different chocolate every day for almost 18 years now.)