Chocolate of The Day
Wild West Chocolate
Prairie Oat - Organic Oatmilk Chocolate with Toasted Oats 50% Cacao (bar)
Good ++
Weight: 2.3 oz. (65.2 g.) in total bar
Calories: 340 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: $7.08 (approx.) for 1 bar - Part of a 3-bar pack for $21.25
Purchased from: Wild West Chocolate, online order
Welcome to Day #2 of Chocolate & Earth Theme Week (including chocolates that have ties with mountains, forests and gardens...and at least one chocolate related to plains and prairies.
Today's Prairie Oat Organic Oat Milk Chocolate 50% Cacao (bar) from Wild West Chocolate (Missoula, MT) managed to represent earth, wind and water elements.
I find undulating wind-driven waves rolling through grasses (or large wheat/oat fields) mesmerizing. City dwellers like me need to drive several hours to enjoy wind dancing through oceans of prairie grasses. Happily, this bar conjured memories of wide open prairies and waving oat grasses catching golden light.
Today's Prairie Oat - Organic Oatmilk Chocolate with Toasted Oats 50% Cacao (bar) was from Wild West Chocolate (Missoula, MT).
Aroma and flavor notes included: subtle chocolate, very faint fruit, and a satisfying oatmeal-like flavor.
I don't care for the slightly dry/gritty texture and flavor of some oat milk* chocolates--or the fact that any "milks" can mask/dull subtle cacao flavors.
However, the oatmilk bars from Wild West Chocolate haven't given me this experience. And the whole oats (that covered the back side of today's Prairie Oat bar) were pleasant (not too rough, and imparting a mellow oat flavor)--making the whole oat experience quite enjoyable. And I believe the company's blend of fruit powders (used to sweeten the chocolate instead of sugar) provided a good balance with the oats.
Ingredients: Organic Oat milk Chocolate (Organic Fruit Blend [Powdered Date+, Powdered Mulberry+, Powdered Peach+, Powdered Mango+], Organic Cocoa Liquor++, Organic Cocoa Butter++, Oat milk+, Vanilla Extract+), Gluten-Free Oats+. (+Organic Ingredients; ++47% Fair Trade Ingredients, Fair Trade Certified by Fair Trade USA
Allergen-related information: Contains Gluten Free Oats. "Made in the USA with globally sourced ingredients. Made with 100% fair trade and sustainable cocoa. Manufactured on equipment that processes tree nuts, peanuts, milk, wheat and soy."
*Bottom line: Making a good oat milk chocolate is not easy. You have to get those starches and saponins, particle sizes, temperatures, interactions with cacao flavors, etc. just right.
