NeoCocoa - Milk Tea Toffee Brittle - Apr. 4, 2025

Chocolate of the Day

NeoCocoa
Milk Tea Toffee Brittle 
Good ++ - Good +++
Weight: 3.0 oz. (85 g.) in total package
Calories: N/A - not listed on packaging 
Cost: $11.99 for 1 package
Purchased from: Toque Blanche, Santa Cruz, CA

Welcome to Day #1 of Chocolate and Tea Theme Week.

Today's Milk Tea Toffee Brittle was from NeoCocoa (Belmont, CA).

NeoCocoa founder and chocolatier, Christine Doerr, has produced a line of very tasty chocolate covered toffees and treats since 2008 (and probably before then). See previous entries on Chocolate Banquet.*

Aroma notes for today's toffee brittle included: subtle dark milk chocolate; tea with milk and sugar; faint botanical (citrus, seed) and floral (bergamot orange blossom, and (imagined) very faint, sweet lavender).

Texture: generously-sized, shards of (crunchy then chewy) toffee brittle were covered in smooth milk chocolate.

Flavor notes: smooth, creamy milk chocolate, authentic buttery toffee (browned sugar, butter, vanilla), and very faint seed and botanical (tea with bergamot). The Earl Grey (bergamot orange) tea flavor became more prominent toward the finish, and continued (in a most pleasing way) into an extended finish. I loved the progression of the tea flavor. 

As with all NeoCocoa toffee brittles, this Milk Tea flavor was addicting. Be forewarned. If you're overly hungry, this toffee in this package will disappear almost immediately.

Ingredients: Dark-milk chocolate (cane sugar, milk, cocoa butter, cacao beans, sunflower lecithin, vanilla beans), brown sugar, butter, black tea, bergamot. 

Allergen-related information: Contains Dairy.

*Other toffee brittle flavors include: black sesame seed; warm ginger root; and toffee (cacao) nib.

Neo Cocoa - Mocha Cinnamon truffles - Dec. 29, 2017

Chocolate of the Day: 

Neo Cocoa 

Mocha Cinnamon truffles

Good + - Good ++

Weight: .8 oz. (23 g.) / 2.4 oz. (69 g.) in total box of 6 pcs.

Calories: 120 calories (estimate) in 2 pieces

Cost: $12.00 for 1 box of 6 pieces

Purchased from: La Cocina retail space, San Francisco Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA

Welcome to Day #10 of Chocolate, Holiday Spices and Maple Theme Week.

Today's Mocha Cinnamon truffles were from Neo Cocoa (Belmont, CA) and were part of holiday snack duo on the go.

These Neo Cocoa rectangular truffles were lightly dusted with dark cocoa powder, had a roasted coffee (espresso) and cinnamon (cassia) aroma, a creamy, velvety texture, and a rich 72% dark chocolate flavor.

I paired these silky chocolate pieces with a snack "opposite:" a Larabar Nut and Seed Maple and Cinnamon Crunchy Bar.* Both were great with fresh fruit.

The company specializes in the heart of truffles, meaning the lovely silky smooth chocolate "insides" of some chocolates covered with a harder chocolate shell or couverture.

Neo Cocoa founder Christine Doerr was trained as a chef and worked as a graphic designer, but she was eventually drawn to chocolate. With the help of La Cocina (a kitchen incubator in San Francisco) she launched her own company, offering soft, shell-less truffles (the "hearts of truffles") in a variety of delicious flavors.

*This Larabar Maple and Cinnamon Crunchy Bar did not contain any chocolate.