jcoco - Mango Plantain 47% Cacao (bar) & Edamame Sea Salt 47% (bar) - Feb. 18, 2024

Chocolate(s) of the Day 

jcoco
Mango Plantain 47% Cacao Peruvian milk chocolate (bar)
Good +
Weight: 1 oz. (28 g.) in total bar
Calories: 160 calories (estimate) in 1 bar
Cost: $3.49 for 1 bar
Purchased from: jcoco, online order

jcoco
Edamame Sea Salt 47% Cacao Peruvian milk chocolate (bar)
Good +
Weight: 1 oz. (28 g.) in total bar
Calories: 160 calories (estimate) in 1 bar
Cost: $3.49 for 1 bar
Purchased from: jcoco, online order

Welcome to Day #5 of Chocolate and Sea Salt Theme Week.

Today's jcoco Mango Plantain 47% Cacao and Edamame Sea Salt 47% Cacao Peruvian milk chocolate bars were from Seattle Chocolate Company (Seattle, WA).*

Mango Plantain (bar)

Aroma notes included: sweet milk chocolate and subtle, diffuse tropical fruit(s).

Texture: chewy dried mango and crunchy bits of plantain chips in a creamy smooth milk chocolate base.

Flavor notes included: creamy, sweet milk chocolate and hints of dried tropical fruit (dried mango) and plantain chips. Subtle sea salt helped balance the sugar content of the 47% milk chocolate.

Edamame Sea Salt (bar)

Aroma: sweet milk chocolate with very faint, diffuse, aromatic and almost perfumed (tropical) fruit. 

Texture: a blend of creamy milk chocolate and toasted edamame with a soft crunch.

Flavor notes included: sweet, creamy milk chocolate and salted, toasted edamame (young, more tender soybeans). The salt in the edamame provided a welcome counterbalance to the sugar/sweetness of the chocolate for me.

*The jcoco brand (created in 2012) and line of bars are part of Seattle Chocolate Company. A portion of the sales of jcoco bars go toward feeding people in need. (The company describes the jcoco line as: "Chocolate that feeds"...the farmer, your neighbor and yourself.)

jcoco - edamame bar, brownie - Oct. 20, 2014

Chocolate of the Day: 

jcoco
(created by Jean Thompson, Seattle Chocolates)
edamame sea salt in milk chocolate bar
Good ++
Weight: 1 oz. (28 g.) / part of a 6 pack of jcoco small bars
Calories: 250 calories (estimate) = 1/3 bar (+ 1 brownie with pieces of bar)
Cost: N/A - gift from a friend (thank you Toni!) ($18.00)
Purchased from: N/A - gift from a friend

Today was Day #7 of Chocolate and Brownie Theme Week.

Edamame (green soybeans) may not be the first flavor that pops to mind when dreaming up a new brownie.

However, there is much to be said for chocolate desserts with a savory kick. And armed with this belief, I created today's Asian-themed brownie cookies. Say what you will, mixing these up was great fun.

To a gluten-free brownie mix, I added finely chopped black sesame crackers, sea salt, a dash of tamari sauce, and chopped up most of a jcoco* edamame sea salt in milk chocolate bar (after tasting this bar by itself). The non-GMO and kosher bar had a good buttery milk chocolate melt/texture with crunchy pieces of roasted edamame and a slight hint of sea salt and soy sauce**.

The brownie cookies were chewy, slightly sweet and slightly savory, and were topped with a few roasted edamame. They worked for me, but may not be everyone's favorite.

*The jcoco brand is part of Seattle Chocolate Company.
**This bar probably contained a trace of wheat from the small amount of soy sauce.

ChocolateBet: February 6, 2009

Chocolate of the Day:
3 servings
Trader Joe's
Dark Chocolate Edamame (Dark chocolate covered soybeans)
Very Good
Wt.: ~4.24 oz. (120 grams)/10 oz. (284 g.) in total container
Calories: ~600 calories in 3 servings
Cost: $3.29
Purchased from: Trader Joe's store in Mountain View, CA

These chocolate edamame weren't bad. Welcome to the first day of chocolate and veggie week on my blog. You would think finding chocolate and vegetable combos would be difficult, but I'm finding more possibilities in this area than you might think.