Chocolate of The Day
Utopick
Milk Chocolate Sparkling Passionfruit 56% Cocoa (bar)
Good ++
Weight: 1.41 oz. (40 g.) / 2.82 oz. (80 g.) in total bar
Calories: 238.8 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: Missing information - estimate $13.00
Purchased from: Oceana Market, Pacifica, CA
Welcome to Day #8 of Chocolate & Passion Fruit Theme Week.
Today's Milk Chocolate Sparkling Passionfruit 56% Cocoa (bar) was from Utopick Chocolates s.l. (Valencia, Spain).
Aroma and flavor notes included: sweet dark milk chocolate with a hint of caramel, effervescent popping candy bits and warm tart-sweet passion fruit. It had the fun of a sparkling, passion fruit cocktail (mixed with a peach-apricot Bellini), surrounded by a creamy, craft chocolate mousse-tart, all in one bite. No small feat.
Texture: creamy milk chocolate with crunchy, fizzy bits of popping candy.
Even though this was on the sweeter side, I enjoyed the upbeat, layered tasting experience of this chocolate. It seemed perfect for a summer tasting--but could be enjoyed year-round.
Ingredients: Cocoa beans, cane sugar, pure cocoa butter, whole milk powder; Popping candy (8%): sucrose, cocoa butter, lactose (13.2%), skim milk powder, cocoa mass, glucose, anhydrous butter, soy lecithin (E322), vanilla -- vanillin, flavorings, raising agent: carbon dioxide (E290), freeze-dried passion fruit (4%): cocoa butter, glucose syrup, passion fruit juice concentrate, maltodextrin, apricot pulp, thickeners: modified starch (E1414) and sodium alginate (E401).
Allergen-related information: Contains Milk, Soy.
"May contain traces of: Gluten, eggs, celery, peanuts, nuts, mustard, sulfur dioxide and sesame seeds, soy, sulfites."
