Kessho - Lamb Skewer Goat Milk 60% Cacao Semuliki Forest Uganda (bar) - Sept. 7, 2026

Chocolate of The Day

Kessho Craft Chocolate 
Lamb Skewer Goat Milk 60% Cacao Semuliki Forest Uganda (bar)
Good ++
Weight: .7 oz. (20 g.) / 2.1 oz. (60 g.) in total bar
Calories: 116.1 calories in 1/3 bar
Cost: $11.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Kessho, online order 

Welcome to Day #10 of Savory Chocolates Theme Week.  

Today's Kessho Craft Chocolate Lamb Skewer* Goat Milk 60% Cacao Semuliki Forest Uganda (bar) was handcrafted in Austin, TX and distributed by Kessho, LLC (Austin, TX).

Aroma notes for this goat milk bar included: goat (milk), cumin, lemon pepper and very faint garlic and chili; and subtle chocolate.

Flavor notes included: smooth, creamy dark milk chocolate (chocolate-y) with savory and spicy, cumin-forward barbecue rub (without the rub; there was no spice grit). Full bodied flavors and a bit of spicy heat lingered and eventually tailed off into a pleasant, clean finish.

Texture: creamy dark milk chocolate. (The seasonings were fully incorporated into the chocolate so there were no detectable spice particles.)

This was a fun, flavorful bar to try. It was well executed and successfully captured the makers' memories* that inspired this bar. 

It was spicy, but not objectionably so; and the overall spice blend with the goat milk and single origin Uganda cacao was very effective. 

I love being transported when I taste chocolate. The goat milk and spices had me thinking I was strolling through a street market in Beijing smelling those lamb skewers. (To complete this virtual travel experience, I paired this bar with a Kessho recommended West China Tea ("Sticky Rice" Pu'er tea) the makers had sold as a pairing item with this bar last year. Very nice.)

Maker's Tasting Notes: "A balanced mix of goat milk, cumin and subtle heat from chili peppers"

Ingredients: "Whole cacao beans, sugar, cocoa butter, goat milk powder, cumin powder, chili powder"

Allergen-related information: "Contains goat milk" "Made in a facility that also processes milk, tree nuts, wheat, sesame and eggs"

*"...This chocolate was inspired by late nights in Beijing, where you can smell roasting lamb skewers as street vendors fan the flames of long coal grills. We start with Ugandan cacao, grind it with creamy goat milk, and season it, lamb-skewer style, with cumin and chili peppers. This is a bar to remember."

Askinosie - 62% Dark Milk Chocolate + Fleur de Sel (bar) - Aug. 28, 2026

Chocolate of The Day

Askinosie Chocolate 
62% Dark Milk Chocolate + Fleur de Sel (bar)
Good ++ - Good +++
Weight: 2 oz. (56 g.) / 3 oz. (85 g.) in total bar
Calories: 320 calories in 2/3 bar
Cost: $10.49 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Whole Foods Market, Los Altos, CA

Welcome to Day #11 of Chocolate & The Philippines Theme Week.

Today's Good Food Awards winner: a 62% Dark Milk Chocolate + Fleur de Sel (bar) was from Askinosie Chocolate (Springfield, MO).

This bean-to-bar dark milk chocolate was made using (Trinitario variety) cacao from the Philippines.

Aroma and flavor notes for this well-executed, single origin bar included: satisfying dark milk chocolate with faint caramel (organic cane sugar); very faint (almost undetectable) goat milk; and subtle sea salt. 

Texture: wonderfully smooth, thick and creamy texture with a satisfying, even melt

I enjoyed the lovely texture and the smooth and balanced chocolate-y flavors. And I appreciated Askinosie's long history of highlighting cacao farmers and their stories on their packaging. Today's bar featured an image of cacao farmer Peter Cruz from Davao (in the Philippines).

Ingredients: "Davao, Philippines Cocoa Beans (Trinitario), Organic Cane Sugar, Cocoa Butter (Made in our factory with Davao beans--visit askinosie.com for details), Goat's Milk Powder, Sea Salt."

Allergen-related information: Contains Goat's Milk.

Choco Del Mar - Maple Goat 65% Cocoa (bar) - Jan. 28, 2026

Chocolate of the Day

Choco Del Mar
Maple Goat 65% Cocoa (bar)
Good ++
Weight: 1.76 oz. (50 g.) in total bar
Calories: 300 calories in 1 bar
Cost: $11.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Choco Del Mar, online order 

Welcome to Day #8 of Chocolate & Colombia Theme Week.

Today's Maple Goat 65% Cocoa (bar) was made by Choco Del Mar (Los Altos, CA).

Aroma and flavor notes for this goat milk chocolate included: chocolate-y dark milk chocolate (dark ganache; faint and fleeting sweet-tart fruit (raisin, berry); and tangy goat milk caramel sweetened with maple/brown sugar. 

Texture: smooth texture, thick and creamy melt and rich mouthfeel.

I enjoyed the melding of sweet, dark milk chocolate with rich maple sugar cream caramel flavors. The slight tang helped add flavor depth and interest, and balanced out the sugar. And I appreciated the short list of quality ingredients.

Maker's description: "Tangy, Maple, Creamy" ..."...an initial burst of goat milk and rich cacao, followed by the warm, lingering sweetness of maple."

Ingredients: Cocoa Nibs, Maple Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Whole Powdered Goat Milk (Whole Goat Milk, Vitamin D3)

Allergen-related information: Contains goat milk. "Made in a facility that processes milk, nuts, and other common allergens."

Kasama Chocolate - 55% Goat's Milk, Philippines (bar) - Jan. 13, 2025

Chocolate of the Day

Kasama Chocolate
55% Goat's Milk, Philippines (bar)
Good ++
Weight: 1.94 oz. (55 g.) in total bar
Calories: 318 calories in 1 bar
Cost: $12.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Kasama, online order

Welcome to Day #5 of Chocolate and The Philippines Theme Week.

Today's 55% Goat's Milk, Philippines (bar) was from Kasama Chocolate (Vancouver, BC, Canada).

Aroma notes included: smooth, dark milk chocolate with very faint, clean floral and light hay.

Texture: smooth dark milk chocolate with a clean, light mouthfeel and melt.

Flavor notes included: dark milk chocolate with a very small hint of goat milk (with no game-y or off notes). Think goat milk (metaphorically wrapped in freshly washed silk and) blended with rich cocoa.

Thank you to the makers for the short list of quality ingredients, and for the opportunity to try chocolates made with cacao from the Philippines.

Ingredients: Cacao Beans, "Unrefined Cane Sugar*, Cacao Butter*, Goat's Milk Powder (* = Organic) 

Allergen-related information: Contains Goat Milk. "Made in a facility that contains nuts." 

Honoka'a Chocolate - 55% Cacao Drunken Goat Milk Chocolate (bar) - Nov. 27, 2024

Chocolate of the Day

Honoka'a Chocolate
55% Cacao Drunken Goat Milk Chocolate (bar)  
Good ++
Weight: 1 oz. (28.3 g.) / 2 oz. (57 g.) in total bar 
Calories: 180 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: $16.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Honoka'a Chocolate, online order

Aloha and welcome to Day #3 of Chocolate and Spirits Theme Week.

Today's 55% Cacao Drunken Goat Milk Chocolate (bar) was from Honoka'a Chocolate (Honoka'a, HI). Honoka'a is a small town on the green, lush Hamakua coast on the northeast side of the Big Island of Hawaii.

This bar was made with "Kahlua infused Ecuadorian (Camino Verde Fermentary) cacao with a hint of organic cane sugar and goat milk." To make this barrel-aged bar, cacao nibs and Kahlua were "aged in oak barrels for 4 to 5 months before processing into chocolate."

Aroma notes included: rich milk chocolate (mild, with a refreshing clean edge to it). 

Texture: thick and creamy, with a luxuriously thick mouthfeel and clean melt. Very faint, fleeting (barely there) astringency in the finish.

Flavor notes included: dark milk chocolate with very faint caramel. I did sense a super faint plant stalks and muffled wood from the barrel aging process; but these notes were so subtle as to be undetectable. There were no strong acid or bitter notes.

For a 55% chocolate, this was not too sweet (thank you). The relative lack of sugar meant it was easier to taste the subtle nuances of flavor in the chocolate and the milk.

I appreciated the creamy texture; the clean taste of the goat milk; the delicate caramel; the short list of ingredients; and a wee bit of intriguing complexity. 

It felt like taking a quiet walk outside in the fog, with clean, recently rain-washed air. There was no strong weather here; but it was a refreshing, interesting walk well worth taking.

I recommend adding this bar to a dark milk tasting flight (side-by-side tasting with other dark milk chocolate bars). This bar might help show tasters that the type and quality of the milk used in a chocolate bar does matter. And that dark milks don't always have to be very sweet to be enjoyable.

Ingredients: Ecuadorian cacao (Camino Verde Fermentary), organic turbinado cane sugar, organic goat milk.

Allergen-related information: Contains: Dairy

Qantu - Reves de Cachemire Goat Milk (bar) - Nov. 4, 2022

Chocolate of the Day

Qantu

Reves de Cachemire (Goat Milk) 55% (bar)

Good ++

Weight: .88 oz. (25 g.) / 1.76 oz. (50 g.) in total bar

Calories: 143 calories in 1/2 bar

Cost: $11.00 for 1 bar

Purchased from: Bar and Cocoa, online order

Welcome to Day #8 of Chocolate and Umami Theme Week. 

Today's Reves de Cachemire (Goat Milk) 55% (bar) was from Qantu Cacao et Chocolat Inc. (Montreal, QC, Canada).

Aroma notes for this 55% goat milk chocolate bar included: dark milk chocolate, caramel,  very faint fruit (pear), and barely detectable goat.

The texture was dense and creamy with a very slight graininess--in a cool, 65 degree F. (18 degrees C.) room.

The flavor had a lightness to it. Notes included: subtle, dark milk chocolate; caramel; very faint and fleeting goat; and mild, diffuse fruit.

This gently complex chocolate was even and smooth, but not dull. The goat notes were very subtle. Some may not notice a very mild gaminess. Others will. The caramel sweetness level was just right--comforting, almost fruit-floral in spirit) but not cloying. The fats in the milk and cocoa butter helped buffer any sharpness or over-sweetness. 

Umami pairing

Qantu's goat milk bar contained a low amount of glutamate (umami indicator); but it inspired a robust, high umami lunch that included a salad with Humboldt Blue goat milk blue cheese (high on the umami scale) and spaghetti squash with tomato sauce, mushrooms and parmesan cheese (pushing the umami scale score even higher). This meal was enjoyed after I sampled today's lovely, dreamy goat milk chocolate. This umami lunch pairing was satisfying and delicious.

I'm glad I ate today's delicate cashmere dream goat milk chocolate first. By eating chocolate for breakfast...or before lunch, I'm better able to still taste cacao nuances. Heavier, spicy foods can overwhelm the taste buds temporarily.

Maker's tasting notes: "Eye: silky light brown; Nose: mild goat milk caramel; Mouth: slightly fruity, reminiscent of pear; Finish: floral as c(h)amomile."

Ingredients: Bagua cocoa beans, cane sugar, goat milk powder, cocoa butter.

Allergen-related information: Contains milk (goat milk). "May contain traces of nuts."

Manoa Chocolate - Goat Milk 69% Dark Milk Chocolate - Aug. 24, 2022

Chocolate of the Day

Manoa Chocolate
Goat Milk 69% Dark Milk Chocolate (bar) 
Good + - Good ++
Weight: 1.05 oz. (30 g.) / 2.1 oz. (60 g.) in total bar
Calories: 180 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: $10.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Manoa Chocolate, online order

Aloha, and welcome to Day #5 of Chocolate and Hawaii Theme Week.

Today's Goat Milk 69% Dark Milk Chocolate (bar) was from Manoa Chocolate (Kailua, O'ahu, HI). 

The initial (just-opened) aroma for this bar was relatively strong with some goat (lightly gamey, waxy, milky) and dark milk chocolate notes. 

For more sensitive palettes, I recommend letting this creamy, buttery chocolate "breathe" a little after unsealing the inner wrapper. (The aroma settled down, mellowing very nicely after about 30 minutes.) 

The texture was luxurious and lovely, and the chocolate flavor had some depth with fun, fleeting fruit notes (some berry, some yellow stone fruit, some tropical), lush true chocolate (brownie, dark ganache) and very faint earth.

What a fun and special bar to try. It was a whisker under 70% cacao, but not too sweet. Thank you Manoa!

Manoa maker's description: "This bar has a unique flavor that reminds us of a dark chocolate cheesecake. With only 20% sugar and 11% goat milk powder, it has both the characteristics of a bold dark chocolate and the rich creaminess of a milk chocolate."

Manoa suggested beverage pairings: Wine: Sauvignon Blanc; Beer: Nitro Stout; Liquor: Rye Whiskey.

Ingredients: Cacao, organic cane sugar, cocoa butter and goat milk powder.

Allergen-related information: Contains milk. "Made in a facility that processes milk powder and nuts."

Moku Chocolate - Goat Milk, Sierra Nevada, Colombia, Dark Milk 60% (bar) - Mar. 18, 2022

Chocolate of the Day

Moku Chocolate

Goat Milk, Sierra Nevada, Colombia, 60% Dark Milk Chocolate (bar)

Good ++ - Good +++

Weight: .88 oz. (22.5 g.) / 1.6 oz. (45 g.) in total bar

Calories: 130 calories in 1/2 bar

Cost: $8.75 (estimate) for 1 bar (3 bars for $24?)

Purchased from: Good Food Awards Marketplace, online order

Welcome to Day #6 of Chocolate and Colombia Theme Week.

Today's Goat Milk - Sierra Nevada, Colombia, 60% Dark Milk Chocolate (bar) was made by Moku Chocolate (Philomath, OR).

The bar had a sweet aroma with warm milk chocolate with rich caramel tones. In the texture department, the creamy melt and chewy caramel mouthfeel also mirrored a flavorful, high-end milk chocolate caramel.

And last, but not least, the taste offered a deeper dive into a classic chocolate caramel confection flavor and texture experience.

Fine goat milk caramel and single origin chocolate (Sierra Nevada, Colombia cacao in this case) were made for each other. The words "confection" and "candy" sell this well-executed bar made with high-quality ingredients short. I find most 60% chocolates too sweet; however, there were enough flavor(s) in the chocolate to prevent it from becoming a sugar-fest.

The maker's described this 60% bar best:

Maker's tasting notes: "...the addition of goat milk creates a delicious caramel flavor with a slight tang and a lovely smooth and velvety mouthfeel."

Ingredients: Cocoa beans, organic cane sugar, organic cocoa butter, organic goat milk powder (whole goat milk, vitamin D3, folic acid)

Allergen-related information: Contained dairy (goat milk); "Non-GMO, gluten free" 

Black Mountain Chocolate - Big Winston Ginger with Chilis on Goat Milk Chocolate (bar) - Feb. 22, 2022

Chocolate of the Day

Black Mountain Chocolate

Big Winston Ginger with Chilis on Goat Milk Chocolate (bar)

Good +++

Weight: 1.6 oz. (45.25 g.) / 3.2 oz. (90.5 g.) in total bar

Calories: 263 calories in 1/2 bar

Cost: $14.00 for 1 bar (+ $12.55 for shipping)

Purchased from: Black Mountain Chocolate, online order

Welcome to Day #2 of Chocolate and Spices Theme Week.

Today's "Big Winston"* Chocolate Bar--Crystallized Ginger with Bold and Spicy Chilis on Goat Milk Chocolate--was created by the team at Black Mountain Chocolate (Winston-Salem, NC).

This large bar had an inviting, rich milk chocolate aroma with faint warm spice notes.

The well-executed bar broke with a snap this cool February morning, and yielded a lush blend of creamy milk chocolate with tiny bits of plump, softly chewy crystallized ginger.

The luxe flavor blend was divine, with spiced toffee, caramel and ginger notes and a judicious chili after-glow (spicy uptick that did not overwhelm). The goat milk seemed to add an extra creamy caramel dimension to this milk chocolate spice bar, and a silken embrace around the potentially brasher chili and spice flavors.

I enjoyed this flavorful, rich milk chocolate made with well-balanced, high-quality ingredients. This chocolate was easy to appreciate and fun to taste, without too much sugar or chili fire. Perfect winter warmer; this bar would be great to share with others anytime. Warning: mildly addictive.

Maker's tasting notes: "...The warmth of crystallized ginger and chilies on this bar is cooled by our goat milk chocolate..." 

Ingredients: Dark chocolate (Organic cocoa beans, organic cane sugar, whole powdered goat milk (goat milk, Vitamin D3, folic acid), organic cocoa butter, organic non-GMO sunflower lecithin), crystallized ginger (organic ginger, organic sugar), crushed cayenne peppers, ancho chili powder. 

Allergen-related information: (None found on label.) (Contained goat milk.)

*Black Mountain Chocolate notes: "The Big Winston name is a nod to the historic tobacco warehouse that now houses our Chocolate Factory." As of this post (2/22/22), today's ginger and chilies bar was one of four goat milk-based Big Winston bars that were offered on the company's website.

Askinosie CollaBARation #5 - June 27, 2013

Chocolate(s) of the Day: 

Askinosie Chocolate
Dark Milk Chocolate + Ancho Chile and Pistachio bar
Good - Good +
Weight: .75 oz. (21.2 g.) in 1/4 bar/ 3 oz. (85 g.) in total bar
Calories: 110 calories in 1/4 bar
Cost: $11.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: The Chocolate Garage, in Palo Alto, CA

Today's Dark (goat) milk chocolate bar was a lively mixture of Maldon sea salt flakes, ancho chile and pistachio nut pieces. The single origin 62% bar was made using cacao beans sourced from the Davao region in the Philippines. There was a lot going on in this bar; a veritable fiesta of interesting and high-quality flavors. Perhaps a bit too much. But, it was fun to try.

The 5th bar in Askinosie Chocolate's CollaBARation series, this bar was a collaboration with Cafe Pascual's (Santa Fe, NM) -- a restaurant that serves savory dishes that echo flavors from New Mexico, Old Mexico, the Mediterranean and Asia. (I hope to visit there one day; their menu looks great.)


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Today was the last day of Chocolate and Surprise Me Theme Week. But, there was one more bar in my chocolate vault that deserved an honorable mention, a Bubble Gum bar from Hagensborg Chocolate (British Columbia, Canada) -- see below.

The bar was shaped like 3 pigs, stuck together in a white chocolate conga line. This creative offering was surprisingly good. (Note: I don't count white chocolate as "real" chocolate, but I do appreciate tasting good white chocolate now and then.)

Honorable Mention:

Hagensborg Chocolate
Bubble Gum bar
Good - Good +
Weight: 1.76 oz. (50 g.) in 1 bar
Calories: 300 calories for 1 bar
Cost: $4.00 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Hagensborg Chocolate, online order

Surprise! We're having a heat wave in the San Francisco Bay Area. This bar started to melt in my hand, so I had to lick white chocolate off my fingers almost immediately. (What a shame.) Inside the bar a sweet, pink filling held another surprise -- three tiny, pink pillows of natural bubble gum.

This bar may have been sweet, and it melted easily in the hot weather we had today; but it was also surprisingly good. My advice, do as the packaging advises: "Wallow in European white chocolate truffle heaven," if this sounds tempting to you.

Manoa Chocolate - Goat Milk Peru bar - December 12, 2012

Chocolate of the Day:

Manoa Chocolate
66% Goat Milk - Peru bar
Good +
Weight: .75 oz. (21.25 g.)/ 1.5 oz. (42.55 g.) total bar
Calories: 112 calories (estimate) in 1/2 bar
Cost: $9.00 total bar
Purchased from: Manoa Chocolate, Oahu, Hawaii

Today was Day #3 of Chocolate and Hawaii Theme Week.

This Manoa Chocolate (Oahu, Hawaii) 66% Goat Milk bar was made in Hawaii, with cacao from Peru. While the maker's tasting notes described a creamy goat cheese flavor, I probably would not have detected any goat flavor if I'd tasted this chocolate blindfolded. My own tasting notes read as follows: rich and smooth, with no strong flavor spikes; very, very slight bitter or sour aftertaste without being acidic, and very faint floral and earth notes.

Notes: Bars were enveloped in compostable wrapping. The 2 goats (shown) were not included.

Happy Goat - Chocolate and Sea Salt Caramels - November 27, 2012

Chocolate of the Day:

Happy Goat
Goat Milk + Chocolate with Sea Salt Caramels
Good
Weight: .57 oz. (16.17 g.) in 2 pieces / 4 oz. (113 g.) total package
Calories: 84 calories (estimate) in 2 pieces
Cost: N/A - gift
Purchased from: N/A - gift


Today was Day #4 of Chocolate and Caramel Theme Week. These individually wrapped chocolate caramels with sea salt, from Happy Goat (San Francisco, CA), were made in copper kettles and had a bit of taffy chew. However, their most unique attribute was: they were made with goat milk. I detected a very slight goat milk/goat butter taste, but nothing too objectionable.

For a bit of an exotic or tropical twist, try Happy Goat's Goat Milk Caramels flavored with coconut and hint of lime juice (no chocolate in these).

Why goat milk you ask? Sometimes goat milk is easier to digest than cow's milk. The company uses "Grade A goat milk that is Kosher certified," and growth hormones or antibiotics are not allowed. Milk comes from free range goats raised on small California farms.

At the bottom of the "About Us" Happy Goat web page, readers are asked what makes them happy. Today's answer: Eating Happy Goat caramels on a boat on the San Francisco Bay this afternoon.

Thank you to Sunita for gifting me these caramels to feature today. Thank you to Ken for the boat ride.

ChocolateBet: June 18, 2012

Chocolate of the Day:


Laloo's Goat's Milk Ice Cream Company
Rumplemint Ice Cream
Good +
Weight: 1/2 cup (92 g.)/ 1 Pint (473 mL) total container
Calories: 180 calories in 1/2 cup serving
Cost: $4.49 for 1 Pint
Purchased from: Whole Foods, in Palo Alto, CA

Today was Day #6 of Chocolate and Mint Ice Cream Theme Week.

I didn't specify what kind of milk or cream. So how about some Rumplemint ice cream, with chocolate chips, made with goat's milk?

Laloo's Goat's Milk Ice Cream Company is based in Petaluma, CA, in Sonoma County.

Today, Sonoma County is known more for grapevines than goats. But, if you drive around Petaluma in the winter or spring you'll see lots of green pastureland for cows, chickens, and goats too. (The rest of the year the grass is more golden brown.)

If I hadn't known this was made from goat's milk, I might not have guessed. It had a very, very slight taste difference, but nothing objectionable. This ice cream tasted rich and creamy like traditional ice cream, but was lower in fat (and calories).

The bits of dark chocolate in the ice cream were somewhat frozen and hard to taste (as was the case with most chocolate chips in frozen desserts, and most ice creams sampled this week); but, what I could taste seemed fine.

ChocolateBet: May 28, 2011

Chocolate(s) of the Day:


1.) Wow-Wee Maui's Candy Bar
Chocolate Macadamia Chewy Banana
Good +
Weight: .5 oz. (14 g.) / 1.75 oz. (50 g.) total bar
Calories: 75 calories (estimate)
Cost: $1.99 total bar
Purchased from: Longs Drug, in Kahului (Maui), in Hawaii


2.) Surfing Goat Dairy
Amaretto Cherry Almond Truffle
Good +
Weight: .5 oz. (14 g.) (estimate)
Calories: 74 calories (estimate)
Cost: $ (part of a larger box of truffles)
Purchased from: Surfing Goat Dairy, in Kula (Maui), Hawaii

Today was Day #3 of Chocolate, Banana and Cherry Theme Week. Last week, I was enjoying fresh tropical fruit and chocolates on the island of Maui. So, both today's Wow-Wee chocolate bar with macadamia nuts and chewy banana, and the Amaretto Cherry Almond truffle from the Surfing Goat Dairy, hail from this island in Hawaii.

Wow-Wee Maui's chocolate bar line is now fairly broad, but this bar with macadamia nut pieces, and bits of chewy banana was the original Wow-Wee chocolate bar.

The Amaretto Cherry truffle was made with goat milk/cheese, although I doubt most people would guess this, as the goat flavor is very difficult to detect.

I enjoyed these two chocolates with fresh cherry plums from a tree in my backyard, a fresh banana and an ice cold cherry juice drink. (Don't all cherries grow with googly eyes?)

ChocolateBet: July 31, 2009

Chocolate of the Day:

1 bar
Askinosie Chocolate
Soconusco, Mexico, Dark Milk + Fleur de Sel bar
Very Good + - Yum
Weight: 3 oz. (85 grams)
Calories: 540 calories (estimate) in 1 bar
Cost: $8.50
Purchased from: Chocolate Covered, in San Francisco, CA

Thanks again to the helpful staff at Chocolate Covered in San Francisco who helped me pick out this Dark Milk bar from Askinosie Chocolate (Springfield, MO).

This single origin bar was made like a lot of the best chocolate, with a few select, local ingredients - that in this case included Trinitario cocoa beans from Mexico, organic cane juice, goat's milk powder, cocoa butter, and sea salt. And, this bar wasn't too sweet, which was a real plus for me.

ChocolateBet: May 6, 2009

Chocolate of the Day:
2 bars
zotter Schokoladen Manufaktur, GmbH (Austria)
Labooko series - 2 bars packaged together (Organic, Fair Trade)
1.) Goat's Milk (50% cacao) - Good + - Very Good
2.) Cheeky Goat (60% cacao) w/ mint - Very Good
Weight: 2.47 oz. ttl (35 g + 35 g = 70 g) ttl for 2 bars pkgd together
Calories: ~ 371 calories in both bars (estimate)
Cost: $
Purchased from: Rainbow Grocery Coop., in San Francisco, CA

I like the carefully crafted and clever packaging for this double-bar offering, and the imprinting on the bars themselves. A note to those who may have concerns about goat milk flavor...I could barely taste the goat milk used in the first bar (Goat's Milk). And I detected not a hint of goat in the second (Cheeky Goat) bar -- that was a bit darker with a touch of mint.