Oodaalolly Chocolate - Trinitario (Philippine) Cacao 40% Swiss-Style Milk Chocolate (bar) - Aug. 20, 2026

Chocolate of The Day

Oodaalolly Chocolate
Trinitario Cacao 40% Swiss-Style Milk Chocolate (bar)
Good ++
Weight: 2.1 oz. (60 g.) in total bar 
Calories: 340 calories in 1 bar
Cost: $8.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Malaya Botanicals, Alameda, CA

Welcome to Day #3 of Chocolate and The Philippines Theme Week.

Today's Trinitario Cacao 40% Swiss-Style Milk Chocolate (bar) was created by Oodaalolly Chocolate founder Hernan Lauber, using Trinitario variety cacao from the Philippines and Swiss chocolate making techniques learned from his father. 

Aroma and Flavor notes included: sweet, smooth milk chocolate with chocolate-y (dark milk chocolate ganache) and very faint (barely detectable) fruit notes with a smooth, clean finish.

This bar was fairly sweet, but it was a higher quality 40% cacao chocolate than you'll find in many other places.

Texture: smooth, almost velvety texture and melt

I really appreciated the maker's use of single origin cacao (Philippines); the short list of quality and organic ingredients; and the use of Swiss milk chocolate techniques.

Ingredients: Organic Cane Sugar, Organic Cacao Nibs, Organic Cocoa Butter, Milk Powder 

Allergen-related information: Contains Milk. "Manufactured in a Facility That Also Processes: Milk, Almond, Coconut"

Note: Oodaalolly Chocolate merged operations with H&G Chocolate Distribution Company in 2024.

Laderach - "Milch" Milk Chocolate (bar) - Jan. 18, 2022

Chocolate of the Day

Laderach 
Milch - Milk Chocolate (bar)

Good
Weight: 1.15 oz. (32 g) / 2.3 oz. (64 g.) in total bar
Calories: 190 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: $6.90 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Laderach - Chocolatier Suisse, Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, CA

Welcome to Day #12 of European Chocolate Vacation. 

Today's Milch Milk Chocolate (bar) was from Laderbach (Ennenda, Switzerland). 

Creamy and sweet, this bar was a luscious, thick milk chocolate. A bit too sweet for me, but milk chocolate lovers may appreciate this attractively-packaged, classic Swiss-style "Milch" (milk) offering.

Ingredients: Milk Chocolate, Cocoa 36% Min. Ingredients: Sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, cocoa paste, skimmed milk powder, soy lecithin, Natural Flavor, Natural Flavors.

Allergen-related information: "May contain Egg, Other Gluten (Incl. Wheat), Other Nuts."

Alter Eco Foods - Organic Chocolate Grass Fed Milk with rice crunch - 46% cacao (bar) - Oct. 5, 2020

Chocolate of the Day

Alter Eco Foods
Organic Chocolate Grass Fed Milk with rice crunch 46% cacao (bar)
Good - Good +
Weight: 1.325 oz. (37.5 g.) / 2.65 oz. (75 g.) in total bar
Calories: 205 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: $ missing information
Purchased from: Rainbow Grocery, San Francisco, CA

Welcome to Day #4 of Chocolate and Grass-Fed Milk Theme Week.

Today's Organic Chocolate Grass Fed Milk with rice crunch 46% cacao (bar) was made in Switzerland and distributed by Alter Eco Foods (San Francisco, CA). This bar was third in a series of three organic, grass fed milk chocolate bars from the company.

As was the case for the first two grass fed milk bars, the milk was supplied by cows grazing in Swiss Alpine pastures; and the cacao was from farmers in Peru. 

Also, I would be remiss if I didn't mention the long history of Swiss milk chocolate. There was something akin to the space race in the 1800s to arrive at the formula for a shelf-stable, milk chocolate bar. The Swiss, French and British were all in hot pursuit of the process that would allow for successful melding of these two edibles--that was first achieved in beverage form (perhaps by a Brit in Jamaica as early as the 1600s). 

But to create a more durable milk chocolate bar took a bit more tinkering. Although others were involved, Swiss chocolatier Daniel Peter receives a large measure of the credit for solving this problem in 1875-6, using powdered milk developed by Henri Nestle--whose creamery was near Peter's factory.

Today's generous helping of embedded crisped rice in the Alter Eco 46% milk bar balanced the relatively bold chocolate aroma and flavor (similar to yesterday's Alter Eco grass fed milk chocolate bar with salted almonds). Although yesterday's salt and almond inclusions helped balance the milk and cacao and sugar. Today's crisp rice acted as a very pleasing crunchy counterpart to the smooth Swiss milk chocolate, but did not tap the brakes on the sugar as successfully as the salted almonds did.

Ingredients: Organic raw cane sugar, organic cacao beans, organic cocoa butter, rice crisp (organic rice, organic raw cane sugar) organic whole milk, organic butterfat.

Goldkenn - Jack Daniel's Tennessee Honey bar - Dec. 27, 2016

Chocolate of the Day:

Goldkenn
Jack Daniel's Original Recipe Tennessee Honey bar
Good+
Weight: 1.75 oz. (50 g.) / 3.5 oz. (100 g.) in total bar
Calories: 240 calories (estimate) in 1/2 bar (4 squares)
Cost: $6.99 (sale price) for 1 bar
Purchased from: Fresh Market, Nob Hill Foods, Alameda, CA

Welcome to Day #4 of Spirited Chocolate Week.

The Jack Daniel's Original Recipe Tennessee Honey bar was from Goldkenn (Le Locle, Switzerland), a company that also offers other chocolates with alcohol, the result of partnerships with distilled spirits company brands.

Made of Swiss 37% cacao milk chocolate, each square of this bar had a bubble-shaped capsule (lined with a crunchy sugary layer) that was filled with a delightful boozy liquid: Tennessee Honey liqueur syrup. So bite into these carefully.