La Fermiere - Chocolate Creme Dessert - Oct. 19, 2025

Chocolate of the Day 

La Fermiere 
Chocolate Creme Dessert
Good ++
Weight: 4.4 oz. (125 g.) in one glass container
Calories: 260 calories in 1 serving/container
Cost: $3.79 for 1 container
Purchased from: The Market at Edgewood, Palo Alto, CA

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

Today's chilled Chocolate Creme Dessert was distributed by La Fermiere Inc. (Jersey City, NJ). It was made "in the U.S. with U.S. and imported ingredients "-- using a French recipe and single origin chocolate from Vietnam.

Texture: Creamy, almost silken, and substantial. (It was thicker, creamier than a chocolate mousse; and it contained real cream and egg(s).)

Flavor notes included: chocolate pot-de-creme, flavorful milk chocolate, very slightly nutty cocoa.

I liked that this chilled chocolate "naturally French" dessert was made from a French recipe, using a short list of (gluten free) quality ingredients. I appreciated the use of single origin chocolate and the lack of vegetable oils and gums, emulsifiers and other extra ingredients.

Ingredients: Pasteurized Whole Milk, Pasteurized Cream, Dark Chocolate (cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, natural vanilla flavoring), Pasture-raised Eggs (whole eggs, citric acid), Cane Sugar, Tapioca Starch.

Allergen-related information: "Contains Milk, Eggs. Made in a facility that uses coconut and pistachios."

Marou Faiseurs de Chocolat - Ca Phe Sua Vietnamese Coffee Milk Chocolate 44% - Oct. 18, 2025

Chocolate of the Day

Marou Faiseurs de Chocolat 
Ca Phe Sua Vietnamese Coffee Milk Chocolate 44% (bar)
Good ++
Weight: .8 oz. (24 g.) in total bar
Calories: 145 calories in 1 bar
Cost: $3.17 (sale) for 1 bar
Purchased from: Whole Foods Market, Los Altos, CA

Welcome to Day #5 of Chocolate and France Theme Week.

Today's Ca Phe Sua Vietnamese Coffee Milk Chocolate 44% (bar) was made by Marou Chocolate in Vietnam. 

What's the French connection? Marou was founded in 2011 by two Frenchmen, Samuel Maruta and Vincent Mourou. Also, a French missionary is credited with having first brought coffee to Vietnam in 1857; and coffee became a significant crop under French colonial rule. (Vietnam still produces 40% of the world's Robusta coffee beans.)

Aroma notes included: fragrant coffee/mocha.

This sweet, milky dark chocolate bar just the right amount of quality coffee (Robusta from Vietnam); very faint warm spice (cardamom, cinnamon); and barely detectable, diffuse, dried fruit (cacao pulp, sweet, mild kumquat + tamarind) notes.

What did I like? The smaller size was great. It was as satisfying as a small cup of espresso and milk. No need for more. I also liked that the coffee was incorporated into the chocolate. (I did not miss the coffee grit.) And I appreciated the short list of quality ingredients.

Ingredients: Cane sugar, cacao butter, whole milk powder, cacao nibs, coffee. Cacao content: 44%.

Allergen-related information: Contains Milk. "Manufactured in a facility that also processes: Eggs, Cashews, Peanuts and Coconut."

*Robusta is one of the two main species of coffee we encounter. (The other is Arabica.) Like the Forastero variety of cacao, Robusta coffee has a reputation for bolder flavor and for being more disease resistant. However the flavor was quite smooth. And perhaps because of the higher level of sugar and the smooth cacao, I found the coffee flavor to be almost delicate.