Cacao Hunters - 53% Tumaco Leche Milk Chocolate Bars - May 19, 2026

Chocolate of the Day

Cacao Hunters
53% Tumaco Leche Milk Chocolate Bars
Good ++
Weight: 2 oz. (56 g.) total box of 2 bars
Calories: 170 calories in 1 of 2 bars
Cost: $6.29 for 1 package of 2 bars
Purchased from: Whole Foods Market, Los Altos, CA

Welcome to Day #18 of Chocolate & Colombia Theme Week, and Day #7 of Chocolate & Coffee Theme Week. Colombia is well known for specialty cacao and coffee, thus the considerable overlap of these two themes this month.

Today's Cacao Hunters 53% Tumaco Leche Milk Chocolate Bars (package of 2 bars) were manufactured by Cacao de Colombia (Popayan, Cauca, Colombia). 

Cacao Hunters offers several bean-to-bar chocolate bars that highlight regional Colombian/cacao flavors and the company is committed to ethical sourcing and helping small stakeholder farmers. Today's cacao was from Tumaco (located in southwest Colombia, near the Pacific Ocean).

Aroma and flavor notes for today's 53% milk chocolate Tumaco Colombia bar included: rich and nutty cocoa, caramel, faint fruit (stone fruit (peach, plum) and berry jam) and very faint, sweet green/ herbal (anethole).

Texture: smooth and creamy

This bar was surprisingly and wonderfully aromatic and flavorful for a milk chocolate bar--a great choice for someone who doesn't care for the flat affect and of many commercially available milk chocolates. The combination of flavors + (cane) sugar and milk also made it relatively addictive.

I paired this bar with a honey-sweetened, chocolate coated, coffee ice cream bar. Both the chocolate and coffee ice cream bar were very tasty. (A double-barreled shot of high-quality, milky sweets for the day.)

Ingredients: "Cocoa beans, cane sugar, milk powder, cocoa butter, emulsifier (sunflower lecithin)."

Allergen-related information: Contains milk. 

Cacao Hunters - 64% Campesino Dark Chocolate Bars - May 18, 2026

Chocolate of the Day

Cacao Hunters
64% Campesino Dark Chocolate Bars
Good ++ - Good +++
Weight: 2 oz. (56 g.) total box of 2 bars
Calories: 160 calories in 1 of 2 bars
Cost: $6.99 for 1 package of 2 bars
Purchased from: Whole Foods Market, Los Altos, CA

Welcome to Day #17 of Chocolate & Colombia Theme Week, and Day #6 of Chocolate & Coffee Theme Week. Colombia is well known for specialty cacao and coffee, thus the considerable overlap of these two themes this month.

Today's Cacao Hunters 64% Campesino Dark Chocolate Bars (package of 2 bars) were manufactured by Cacao de Colombia (Popayan, Cauca, Colombia). 

Cacao Hunters offers several bean-to-bar chocolate bars that highlight regional Colombian/cacao flavors and the company is committed to ethical sourcing and helping small stakeholder farmers.

The word campesino in English means a person from the country. Campesinos include small-to-medium sized farmers (that may or may not be landholders, who live in fairly remote, forested regions). These are the people who often grow and harvest the fine flavored cacaos and specialty coffees that we love so much. It's a term that has my respect.

Aroma and flavor notes for today's 64% Campesino dark bar included: rich cocoa and warm spices (cloves, cinnamon), brown sugar caramel, and very faint floral (vanilla), wood (very faint cedar) and brown fruit (dried peach).

Texture: smooth 

I loved the pleasing, gently complex and complementary flavors in this chocolate. The warm spice notes were balanced and could even be mistaken for naturally occurring cacao flavors.

I paired this bar with a gently spiced, iced coffee latte.

I also appreciated the short list of quality ingredients.

Ingredients: "Cocoa beans, canela brown sugar cane, cocoa butter, cinnamon, clove."

Allergen-related information: May contain traces of milk.