Seattle Chocolate - Sip Sip Hooray (bar) - Dec. 8, 2024

Chocolate of the Day

Seattle Chocolate
Sip Sip Hooray (bar)
Good ++
Weight: 1.25 oz. (35 g.) / 2.5 oz. (70 g.) in total bar
Calories: 200 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: $5.95 for 1 bar 
Purchased from: Pebble Beach Market Market, Pebble Beach, CA

Welcome to Day # of Chocolate and Spirits* Theme Week

Aroma and flavor notes included: dark chocolate, tart-sweet raspberry candy, and faint lemon.

Texture: smooth truffle bar texture: creaminess, punctuated by the crunch and fizz of raspberry popping candy.

What did I like? I enjoyed the creamy + crunchy layered flavors and textures (almost velvety dark chocolate coating and white chocolate interior) and the subtle raspberry popping candy. 

This bar had a festive (touch of bubbly and pink champagne bottle like illustrations on label) feel to it. The label was splashed with celebratory golden yellow and pink. Yes this bar was a little bit sweet, but it was also fun. And fun is underrated.

Ingredients: white chocolate (cane sugar, cocoa butter*, milk, soy lecithin, natural vanilla), dark chocolate (cocoa mass, cane sugar, cocoa butter, organic soy lecithin, natural vanilla), popping candy (cane sugar, lactose, corn syrup, carbon dioxide), coconut oil, raspberry powder, citric acid, beet extract (color), organic natural flavor. (* = Rainforest Alliance Certified)

Allergen-related information: Contains Milk, Soy, and Coconut. "This product is manufactured in a plant that processes milk, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, egg, and wheat products."

*Vedrenne Creme de Cacao Blanc

To make this day technically compliant with the "Chocolate and Spirits" Theme this week, I paired this bar with a very small glass of Vedrenne Creme de Cacao Blanc liqueur (made with the cacao fruit that surrounds cacao beans/seeds). 

This Creme de Cacao was head and shoulders above most liqueur-style spirits in terms of quality and flavor had a refreshing, lovely, tart-sweet, tropical fruit taste--consistent with cacao fruit pulp I've tried in the past--with subtle, authentic notes of mango, tangerine, very faint pineapple and melon. It also had 1-2 other very faint (barely there) botanical notes I associate with chocolate that I couldn't quite identify.