Coco - Isle of Skye Sea Salt Milk Chocolate (bar) - July 14, 2025

Chocolate of the Day

Coco
Isle of Skye Sea Salt Milk Chocolate (bar)
Good ++
Weight: 1.41 oz. (40 g.) / 2.82 oz. (80 g.) in total bar
Calories: 227.48 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: N/A - gift from a friend - thank you Wendy!
Purchased from: N/A - gift

Welcome to Day #6 of Chocolate and Salt Theme Week.

Today's Isle of Skye Sea Salt Milk Chocolate 40% (bar) was from Coco Chocolatier (South Queensferry, Scotland).

The colorful wrapper for this truly international bar--made in Scotland using Colombian cacao--was designed by a French artist. Perfect for Bastille Day today. And this chocolate was a gift from friends in Minnesota. Thank you Wendy!

Aroma and flavor notes included sweet and creamy milk chocolate, lightly salted, with very faint vanilla.

I liked the creamy texture and taste. This 40% cacao bar was sweet and relatively addictive ("more-ish") due to sugar, salt and fat blend. Those with a sweet tooth will likely enjoy this chocolate. 

The subtle Isle of Skye sea salt (from Scotland) helped balance out the relatively high level of sweetness.

A sweet milk chocolate bar can mute some more subtle naturally occurring cacao flavors; but the choice of higher-quality, single origin cacao (as in this bar) elevated the overall taste. Thank you to Coco for using Colombian cacao for this bar.

Ingredients: Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Milk Powder 14.5%, Emulsifier: Non-GMO Soya Lecithin, Natural Vanilla Flavour, Isle of Skye Sea Salt (<1%), Cocoa Solids: 40% Minimum.

Allergen-related information: Contains Milk, Soya. May Contain Traces of Peanuts, Nuts and Gluten.

Dolfin - Eclats de Caramel & Sel mirror de Bolivie (bar) - July 13, 2025

Chocolate of the Day

Dolfin 
Eclats de Caramel & Sel miroir de Bolivie
(Dark chocolate with caramel Pieces & a touch of Miroir salt from Bolivia)
Good ++
Weight: 1.058 oz. (30 g,) in 1 small bar 
Calories: 160 calories in 1 small bar
Cost: $7.50 for 1 bar 

Purchased from: World Wide Chocolate, online order

Bonjour and welcome to Day #5 of Chocolate and Salt Theme Week.

Today's Chocolat Noir Eclats de Caramel & Sel miroir de Bolivie (small bar) was made in Belgium by Dolfin Chocolaterie (Baulers Nivelles, Belgium).

Salts from France (Guerande) and Bolivia were included in today's bar. The latter miroir salt (also known as mirror salt) was from Salar de Uyani--a large, high altitude, salt plain that (when it rains and leaves a thin layer of water on the salt) can have almost other-worldly reflective, mirror-like properties.

Aroma and flavor notes included: dark chocolate (dark fudge), butter, caramel, vanilla flavoring, and balanced salt.

Texture: smooth, creamy texture--with very tiny crystal-like crunchy bits.

I liked the chocolate-y flavor, light caramel and touch of salt. The 60% dark chocolate was well managed (robust but not too dark, and had no "off" notes).

Ingredients: Cocoa paste, sugar, caramel 4% (sugar, glucose syrup, whole milk powder, fresh cream (milk), salted butter (milk), Guerande salt, rapeseed lecithin), cocoa butter, emulsifier: soy lecithin... ???? from Bolivia 0.2%, natural vanilla flavoring. Cocoa solids, Miroir salt from Bolvia

Allergen-related information: Contained milk and soy. "May contain tree nuts, eggs, wheat and sesame.