Chocolate of the Day
Javier Confectionery
Shaved Chocolate Hot Cocoa Mix with Homemade Marshmallows
Good ++
Weight: 1 oz. (28.3 g.) / Approx. 15 oz. (weight unknown) total package
Calories: 155 calories (estimate) in 1 oz. serving
Cost: N/A - gift from a neighbor (Thank you Nallely!)
Purchased from: N/A - gift
Sunridge Farms
Dark Chocolate Coconut Chews
Good + - Good ++
Weight: 1.06 oz. (30 g.) / 5.5 oz. (156 g.) in total package
Calories: 150 calories in 1 (2-piece) serving
Cost: $5.59 for 1 package
Purchased from: The Market at Edgewood, Palo Alto, CA
Aloha, and welcome to Day #15 of Chocolate and Hawaii Theme Week.
Today's Hawaiian Hot Chocolate was made with three ingredients (listed below).
The last few days I've recreated a Hawaiian dessert/drink memory with available chocolate items from the chocolate vault. Tomorrow, I'll go back to featuring one (single) chocolate item per day that's either from Hawaii and/or made with cacao grown in Hawaii.
Javier Confectionery - Shaved Chocolate Hot Cocoa Mix
The base for this Hawaiian-themed hot chocolate was Shaved Chocolate Hot Cocoa Mix With Homemade Marshmallow(s) from Javier Confectionery (Burlingame, CA).
After adding hot water, and stirring, the dark milk shavings melted into a nice, almost velvety, warm drinking chocolate. Very satisfying--and a good choice for a hot chocolate or as a base for experimentation (if you'd like to add liqueurs, flavorings).
Ingredients: Shaved dark chocolate (that I believe contained some milk) + homemade marshmallows in a separate packet.
Sunridge Farms - Dark Chocolate Coconut Chews
The Dark Chocolate Coconut Chews were manufactured by Sunridge Farms (Royal Oaks, CA). Aroma and flavor notes for these hearty, two-bite sized, dark chocolate covered chews included: dark chocolate, coconut macaroon and very faint vanilla.
These tasty, chewy, sweet, bite-sized coconut chews would be enjoyable as a sweet snack. Their small size was perfect. I could see these being part of a holiday dessert plate with fruit and other items.
These were like high-end dark chocolate covered coconut macaroon cookies, only with a slightly shorter and healthier list of ingredients.
And two chews mixed into the hot chocolate achieved the rich coconut and chocolate flavor I wanted (in addition to the dark rum) to recreate today's Hawaiian Hot Chocolate memory.
(Note: straining out the small coconut shreds after allowing hot chocolate to sit for a few minutes is optional if hand-stirring ingredients and you're not using a blender.)
Ingredients: Coconut Bar (coconut, brown rice syrup), Dark Chocolate (unsweetened chocolate, cane sugar, cocoa butter, soy or sunflower lecithin [emulsifier], vanilla extract, milk).
Allergen-related information: Contains Coconut, Milk, Soy. "Manufactured on shared equipment with peanuts, tree nuts, wheat and sesame."
Rum
Last, but not least to be stirred in was the rum. I chose Myers's Original Dark Rum as that most closely replicated what was in the Hawaiian Hot Chocolate I had almost 20 years ago in Honolulu. (An updated version might include a small-batch Hawaiian rum.)
Result
The resulting combination of the three ingredients was very close to the (memory of the) Hawaiian Hot Chocolate I enjoyed years ago while on vacation in Hawaii.
