Eigen Chocolate - Dulce de Oso 54% Brown Butter Milk Chocolate (bar) - June 14, 2026

Chocolate of The Day

Eigen Chocolate
Dulce Del Oso 54% Brown Butter Milk Chocolate (bar)
Good ++
Weight: .88 oz. (25 g.) in 1 bar
Calories: 136 calories (estimate) in 1 bar 
Cost: $7.50 for 1 small bar
Purchased from: Eigen Chocolate, online order

Welcome to Day #10 of Chocolate & Bears Theme Week.

Today's Dulce Del Oso 54% Brown Butter Milk Chocolate (bar) was made at Eigen Chocolate (High Point, NC). 

The makers sourced their cacao from Osito Coffee and Cacao in Colombia.

Aroma notes included: sweet, rich, dark milk chocolate (drinking chocolate), buttery toffee and caramel. The flavor notes were similar, but with more rich chocolate-y (brown butter chocolate ice cream) flavors and very faint tropical fruit (cacao fruit, passion fruit) and very faint pomegranate.

Texture: creamy, velvety dark milk chocolate with a satisfying buttery melt and mouthfeel.

Maker's Tasting Notes: "Fudge, Butterscotch, Tropical Fruit" "...ultra-rich butterscotchy-fudgy milk chocolate with a toasted brown butter finish."

I enjoyed this authentic, flavorful and buttery dark milk chocolate with balanced, single origin complexity. Perfect for those with a brown butter chocolate ice cream sweet tooth who also appreciate gentler (less bitter), high-end, deep cacao flavor(s).

Ingredients: Cacao nibs, Organic cane sugar, Organic A2/A2 whole milk powder, Organic cocoa butter

Allergen-related information: Contains Milk. Made in a facility that handles nuts, dairy & soy.

Seahorse Chocolate - La Cueva del Oso 70% Dark Chocolate (bar) - June 13, 2026

Chocolate of the Day

Seahorse Chocolate
La Cueva del Oso 70% Dark Chocolate (bar)
Good ++
Weight: .88 oz. (25 g.) / 1.75 oz. (50 g.) in total bar
Calories: 137 calories (estimate) in 1/2 bar
Cost: $14.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Seahorse Chocolate, online order 

Welcome to Day #9 of Chocolate & Bears Theme Week. 

Today's La Cueva del Oso 70% Dark Chocolate (bar) was made by the bean-to-bar chocolate makers at Seahorse Chocolate (Bend, OR).

The cacao beans were sourced from smallholder farmers in Huila, Colombia (and were processed at a centralized fermentary in Altamira--run by Osito Coffee. (Osito means little bear. And the name of their cacao operation is La Cueva del Oso (bear's cave). 

The connection with "bears" could also be a tribute of sorts to local bears*--that have also become a modern day symbol of conservation and good stewardship.

Unique aroma and flavor notes for this single origin bar included rich dark cocoa, sweet toffee and balanced herb-y menthol--that I thought might be headed toward bitterness, but that never happened.

Texture: smooth, relatively pleasant melt

I liked the short list of ingredients, the single origin cacao story, the smooth texture, the unique flavor profile...and the bear connection.

Maker's Tasting Notes: Toffee, Molasses, Wild Mint

Ingredients: Cocoa Beans, Organic Cane Sugar

Allergen-related information: (None listed on packaging.)

*Osos de Anteojos (Spectacled Bears, aka Andean Bears) live in several South American countries, including Colombia--and can be found not far from where today's cacao was grown/fermented. These bears live in mountainous and forested areas. They occasionally visit farms to enjoy fruits, including the pulpy cacao fruit (that surrounds the cacao seeds/beans). This helps disperse seeds and can benefit local ecosystems.