Astor Chocolate - Chocolate Cliche - Milk Chocolate Key Lime (bar) - July 29, 2023

Chocolate of The Day 

Astor Chocolate 
Chocolate Cliche Zero Flocks Given Milk Chocolate Key Lime (bar)
Good + - Good ++
Weight: .88 oz. (25 g.) / 1.75 oz. (50 g.) in total bar
Calories: 130 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: $2.12 for 1 bar
Purchased from: Cost Plus World Market, Mountain View, CA

Welcome to Day #4 of Chocolate and Fruits Theme Week.

Today's Chocolate Cliche Zero Flocks Given Milk Chocolate Key Lime (bar) was from Astor Chocolate (Lakewood, NJ).  The company offers a wide variety of chocolates using "premium Belgian chocolate that is sustainably produced."

Aroma and flavor notes for this milk chocolate bar included: dark milk chocolate, citrus (lemon, lime) and faint vanilla.

The texture of the base milk chocolate was smooth and creamy. Tiny, barely visible, citrus bits emitted tart-sweet lemon/lime sparkles that cooled into a slightly bitter citrus peel in sweet milk chocolate finish. 

Milk chocolate and citrus fans will find this bar an entertaining summer chocolate. (The package features a cartoon flamingo with sunglasses lounging in a pool, with "zero flocks given.") 

Ingredients: Milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, whole milk powder, soy lecithin (emsulsifier), and natural vanilla extract), dried lemon peels, dried lime powder, citric acid, natural lemon flavor, and natural citrus flavor.

Allergen-related information: "Contains: Milk and soy. May contain wheat, peanuts, and tree nuts."

Endangered Species Chocolate - Organic 52% Milk Chocolate with Key Lime (bar) - March 7, 2021

Chocolate of the Day

Endangered Species Chocolate
Smooth Organic 52% Milk Chocolate with Key Lime (bar)
Good 
Weight: .466 oz. (13.3 g.) / 1.4 oz. (40 g.) in total bar
Calories: 73.3 calories in 1/3 bar
Cost: $ missing information
Purchased from: missing information

Welcome to Day #2 of Chocolate and JKLM Theme Week, where I'm featuring chocolate items with flavor inclusions or origins that start with the letters J, K, L and/or M. 

Every few years I've gone on an alphabetic chocolate treasure hunt. This may be my last year to do so, as there are many other interesting chocolate themes to pursue. 

Today's Smooth Organic 52% Milk Chocolate with Key Lime (bar) from Endangered Species Chocolate (Indianapolis, IN) has been waiting for years in my chocolate vault for its turn. What better K + L flavor item than Key Lime?*

Chocolate and citrus pairings typically yield refreshing and delightfully tart-sweet results. And today's smooth, organic dark 52% cocoa milk chocolate suffused with natural key lime flavor was no exception. As billed, the texture was smooth, almost creamy. A hint of vanilla added a bit of floral warmth and paired nicely with the chocolate and the lime.

Ingredients: Organic milk chocolate (organic cane sugar, organic whole milk, organic cocoa butter, organic chocolate liquor, organic soy lecithin (as an emulsifier), and organic vanilla), Key Lime Oil.

*Smaller and more thin-skinned than Tahitian or Persian limes, Key Limes (aka Mexican limes) are often grown in Florida in the U.S. When ripe they can be yellow-green. They are aromatic (almost floral) and tart-sweet, with relatively low bitterness, and make a great flavoring for desserts (Key Lime pie), beverages (cocktails, limeades) and other items, including flavor inclusions in (or part of fillings or ganaches for) chocolate bars and confections.

ChocolateBet: March 15, 2010

Chocolate(s) of the Day:
1.) Sweet Memory Chocolates - Mint Truffle - Very Good
2.) Le Grand Confectionary - Key Lime Truffle - Good
3.) Sweet Memory Chocolates - Dark Chocolate Almond Turtle - Very Good

Weight: 1.75 oz. (estimate for total eaten)
Calories: 263 calories total (estimate)
Cost: $6.30 for three pieces above
Purchased from: Sweet Memory Chocolates, in Healdsburg, CA

To celebrate Day #5 of Chocolate and St. Patricks/Green Week, I found three chocolates that I thought best fitted this theme, including one with mint, and one with key lime. The third piece (in the back) is a chocolate "turtle" -- perhaps the biggest stretch. (Turtles are green, and this is a chocolate turtle, right?)

I found these chocolates in Healdsburg, a nice, small Northern California town, with few large chain or franchise retail shops.  This works for me, as I liked talking to family run small businesses, like Sweet Memory Chocolates (shop pictured at right). Thank you for help with making my St. Patrick's/Green chocolate selections.

ChocolateBet: May 16, 2009

Chocolate of the Day:

1/2 bar
Astor Chocolate
(Belgian) Key Lime Filled Milk Chocolate
Good
Weight: 1 oz. (28.3 g.) in 1/2 bar/2 oz. (57 g.) total
Calories: 140 calories in 1/2 bar
Cost: $4.50 in one bar
Purchased from: Sugar Shack, in Menlo Park, CA

Key lime flavor makes me think of warm summer weather. And, in fact, it's shaping up to be a hot day here in California. (This upsurge in the temperature reminds me that I need to eat down my chocolate inventory, before summer starts in a few weeks. I have no air conditioning in my house. I've been squirreling away new, and as yet untasted, chocolates in a cool dark corner.)

ChocolateBet: January 31, 2009

Chocolate of the Day:

2 pieces
Anastasia Confections
Key Lime Flavored Coconut Patties (dipped in dark chocolate)
Good + - Very Good
Wt.: 76 grams)/ 12 oz. (340 grams)
Calories: 300 for 2 pieces
Cost: $3.89 (sale)
Purchased from: Marshall's in San Jose, CA

Nice cheery Florida colors on the box, which was fun to look at in the middle of winter. (Also shown above, are other coconut patty flavors that are available.)

ChocolateBet: October 22, 2006

Chocolate of the Day: 

Godiva
Dark Chocolate Key Lime truffle
Very Good
Weight: .5 oz. (14.1. g.) (estimate)
Calories: 75 calories (estimate)
Cost: ?
Purchased from:

Godiva's dark chocolate key lime truffle was very good.

A Sunday shopping trip up in San Francisco for bed linens (or other homewares you can't afford at an upscale department store) with a friend is made a bit nicer when followed by a small indulgence such as this.