Utopick Chocolate Makers - Saffron - 56% Cocoa Milk Chocolate with Saffron (bar) - Apr. 14, 2026

Chocolate of the Day

Utopick Chocolate Makers
Saffron (Azafran) - 56% Cocoa Milk Chocolate with Saffron (bar)
Good ++ 
Weight: 1.41 oz. (40 g.) / 2.82 oz. (80 g.) in total bar
Calories: 242 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: $16.99 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Oceana Market, Pacifica, CA

Welcome to Day #6 of Chocolate & Flowers Theme Week.

Cacao and saffron are both versatile edible plants that can go sweet or savory. Love them both. Which is why I was excited about today's bar.

Today's "Saffron 56% Cocoa Milk Chocolate with Saffron" bar was from Utopick Chocolate s.l. (Valencia, Spain).

Aroma and flavor notes included: buttery, warm milk chocolate with clean spice (saffron floral) and light caramel.

Texture: uniformly creamy smooth with a slight caramel "chew" in the early melt (in a cool room), and a very faint astringency toward the finish.

I really enjoyed and appreciated the authentic saffron (saffron crocus stamens were visible on the back of the bar). The subtle, undulating saffron complexity was wonderful. And the fleeting, aromatic buttery saffron notes (that I recognized from eating saffron rice as a child) reinforced the buttery taste in the milk chocolate, enhancing buttery caramel flavor notes.

Ingredients: Cocoa beans, cane sugar, pure cocoa butter, whole milk powder, saffron threads from Spain (0.5%).

Allergen-related information: Contains Milk. May contain traces of nuts, gluten, egg, sesame, soya.