Do you want a hot chocolate drink that has a super bitter, dark chocolate flavor? Look no further. This is the mix/powder for you. It’s really strong. It definitely does not lack in the flavor department. If you want this type of hot cocoa, definitely recommend! Rather than using milk, I’ve been using water along…

This is an extremely intense 88% Cocoa Dark Chocolate bar from Endangered Species Chocolate. It’s bitter, tangy…and as it says on the front packaging…BOLD! It’s super powerful—too powerful at times. My desire for dark chocolate has been well satiated by this dark chocolate bar. I no longer desire any more dark chocolate for the foreseeable…

Picked up this Trader Joe’s Uganda 85% Dark Chocolate Bar after getting a taste for dark chocolate. It is pretty good—it has the typical dark chocolate tang/edge that lingers but is overall smooth. I’d recommend it for those just wanting a serviceable dark chocolate bar.…

This is a sort of blast from the past review! Over five years ago did I last review an Askinosie product. My first review of their product was of their Askinosie’s Tanzania Dark Chocolate bar and then I did their Licorice chocolate bar. Wow! And now I’m reviewing their Intelligentsia collaboration: a dark chocolate bar…

These Unreal Dark Chocolate Crispy Quinoa things are some form of quinoa integrated M&M-style candy. I didn’t know what to expect from them; I think I was thinking something like puffed rice. I don’t know—it just seemed interesting. They aren’t really interesting since they’re basically M&Ms, but that does not matter because they are delicious.…

The B.T. McElrath Dark Chocolate Bar is plain in appearance. Each of its convex square is inscribed with either the B.T. initials or ‘BAR.’ Not only is this bar plain in embellishment, but the flavor is very simple. It isn’t a special bar, just a 70% dark chocolate bar. It is what you expect. A…

Just like the name suggests, the Mast Brothers Stumptown Coffee Chocolate contains coffee. This is instantly noticeable as coffee is about the only thing tasted in this chocolate. Not much else to it. It has a vaguely chalky texture to it. It isn’t even that chocolaty. It is ostensibly a coffee bar. Nothing wrong with…

The Chocolate Garage is a San Francisco based company that sells chocolate. They do not make the chocolate they sell, rather they stock a variety of brands and sources. One of the things they sell is a chocolate tasting box that has a collection of around eight or nine different bars. They have two different…

The Soma Little Big Man is peppered with little cocoa nibs. These crunchy bits of goodness add texture to the rich chocolaty base. It is both sweet and salty, but it has the typical dark chocolate bitterness that comes in towards the end. The combination and balance of these three types of flavors is excellent.…

The Charm School Coconut Milk Chocolate met all my expectations. It had a coconut-y flavor. Not only coconut, but a general nuttyness, coming from the pecan topping. Although the pecans gave the bar a crunchy bite, it was overall very smooth. The consistency of a coconut milk chocolate was similar to a normal milk chocolate…

The Patric Chocolate ‘The BOSS’ bar is a on the luscious, rich side of the sweet spectrum. With clumps of salt, cacao nibs, and caramel flavor, it embodies a full candy-like chocolaty flavor. Unlike the other chocolate bars in the Playful box, the BOSS tastes the most like a normal chocolate bar. The notes of…

The Michael Mischer Chocolates Toffee and Murray River Salt is a chocolate bar with, surprise, toffee and salt. The salt is clumped on the top of it and the toffee spread throughout the body of the chocolate. The consistency is soft and pliable. Succulent. As for the flavor of this bar, it is quite salty.…

So this Sirene Dark Milk Chocolate bar is actually a pack of two different bars.  One is sourced from Guatemala, the other Madagascar. The Madagascar one has a more fruity flavor profile, while the Guatemalan is smoother and ‘richer.’ I did not like the Guatemalan bar at all. It wasn’t the type of dislike that…

As one can see, the Askinosie Licorice Chocolate bar is topped with bits of anise and chunks of licorice. Hence the name. The licorice flavor does come through surprisngly well and also surprisingly was how well it worked with the chocolate. I was skeptical at first. I wondered how these two flavors could blend together…

The Patric Chocolate Browned Butter Bar is another Patric Chocolate bar, the other being the BOSS. Like the BOSS, the chocolate is on the creamy side. Not too hard, rather soft and pliable. This makes sense as the bar is mixed with, guess what, browned butter, sugar, and salt. These flavors do not come out…

When I think of ginger, I think of a potent, sharp flavor that can accent other flavors or be the center piece. It is versatile, which is why it is used in so many different things. Including chocolate, in the case of the Dick Taylor Ginger Snaps. Yet in the case of the Dick Taylor…

The Grenada Chocolate Company Nib-a-licious chocolate bar is 60% chocolate and dotted with “crispy cocoa nibs.” These nibs impart a purer cocoa flavor that dwarfs the chocolate they are embedded in. The body of the chocolate is not that strong, very forgettable, but that is not the main show of the bar. The nibs are,…

The Chocolate Garage is a San Francisco based company that, surprise surprise, sells chocolate. They do not make the chocolate they sell, rather they stock a variety of brands and sources. One of the things they sell is a chocolate tasting box that has a collection of around eight or nine different bars. They have…

The Askinosie Tanzania is a 72% Dark Cocao chocolate bar. As you can see in the above and below pictures, the bar is made up of little squares each with a letter on it, spelling out ‘askinosie chocolate.’ It is kind of cool looking and makes the bar distinguishable. Good that it does, because the…

Another chocolate bar from the The Chocolate Garage Purist Box, the Francois Pralus Tanzanie is a 75% pure bar. Although it has a high percentage, the Francois Pralus Tanzanie is rather bland. It has a fluffy, light texture, but little flavor. I have a hard time remembering anything about it because there is hardly anything…

The Chocolat Bonnat is a French, 75% chocolate bar. It is rather plain in flavor and texture. It tastes more milk chocolaty than dark chocolaty. I am having trouble writing about it, because there is really not much to say. The Chocolat Bonnat is not complex or exciting. It is simple and straight to the…

The Brasil Areté is a 70% organic dark chocolate bar. It has berry notes to it that are cut by hints of pretzel and saltiness. It is simplistic in that sense–the flavor profile is simple and punctual. The fruitiness is expressive and the nuttiness is a consistent reminder. The Brasil Areté is a solid chocolate…

The Grenada Chocolate Company 71% chocolate bar is intense. This power comes from its sweet bite. Fruity notes come through strongly, yet it has balance with the inclusion of a salty undertones. It may be have a sometimes overwhelming flavor, but the flavor itself is well balanced and dealt with. Neither too fruity nor salty,…

The Dick Taylor Bolivia chocolate is a limited release chocolate bar with rather minimalist wrapper artwork. I kind of like the aesthetic. The bar itself is also gorgeous with the lace-mosaic design on the chocolate top. It is visually interesting. The flavor, however, is not as compelling. There are salty notes to it, but that…

The Ritual Chocolate Madagascar bar is a long and thin 75% bar. It is broken up into little rectangles that are around two to three bites a piece. The most prominent flavor notes it has are fruity in nature. No exact fruit, but more the essence of a tangy sweetness. This taste profile is not…

The Dandelion Chocolate Madagascar bar is 70% and sourced from Ambanja, Madagascar, as it says clearly on the packaging. Each square of the bar has four little wavy lines on it, which you can see from the above and below pictures. The portion sizes are pretty perfect. And for the flavor: fruity and sharp. Certainly…

The Domori Guasare is a small chocolate bar sectioned up into little logo’d squares for consumption. The flavor is a wonderful mixture of sweet and salty. There is are slight nutty notes that comes in with fruity notes. The mixture creates a complex flavor that is quite good. I would say it had more of…