Showing posts with label Love Bites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Love Bites. Show all posts

Thursday, April 3, 2014

Love Bites - Dark Sweet Orange - April 2, 2014

Chocolate(s) of the Day: 

Love Bites Raw Confections
Button: Dark Sweet Orange
Good +
Weight: .39 oz. (11 g.) (estimate) for 1 piece
Calories: 59 calories (estimate) for 1 piece
Cost: N/A - gift from Katy
Purchased from: N/A gift

Today's Dark Sweet Orange, button/dome-shaped, raw chocolate from Love Bites Raw Confections (Thousand Oaks, CA) was part of an assortment container I received as a gift from the L.A. area. (Thank you Katy!)

This dark beauty was infused with natural tasting orange oil and was quite good, probably my favorite of the four pieces shown at right.

This was Day #2 of Chocolate and Orange Theme Week.

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Love Bites - Mayan Heat - Feb. 20, 2014

Chocolate(s) of the Day: 

Love Bites Raw Confections

Mayan Heat
Good
Weight: .33 oz. (9.3 g.) (estimate) for 1 piece
Calories: 49 calories (estimate) for 1 piece
Cost: N/A - gift
Purchased from: N/A - gift

Vegan Milk Chocolate
Good +
Weight: .4 oz. (11.32 g.) (estimate) for 1 piece
Calories: 60 calories (estimate) for 1 piece
Cost: N/A - gift
Purchased from: N/A - gift

Today was Day #1 of Chocolate and Chili Theme Week.

The combination of cacao and chili peppers is as old as the hills -- if by "old" you mean thousands of years ago, and if by "hills" you mean the Maya Mountains in Central America.

So, it seemed only right to start this theme week with a piece of dark chocolate bark, dubbed 'Mayan Heat" by Merissa, the creator of Love Bites Raw Confections (Thousand Oaks, CA). Each piece of bark was peppered with warm, colorful specks of cayenne and paprika -- adding interest, but not too much heat.

I also sampled the star-shaped Vegan Milk Chocolate, made with cashews. As claimed, this piece was creamy and wonderful.

Today's two Love Bites Raw Confections were free of gluten, soy, corn and milk, and were sweetened with organic maple sugar. While not a chocolate-maker who starts with whole cacao beans from growers, Merissa is clearly focused on providing consumers with healthy end-products, and sources her ingredients carefully. (The company used cacao products from David Wolfe's Longevity Warehouse to make these raw chocolates.)

Thank you Katy for sending these chocolates from Southern California!






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