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Diamond Salted Dark Chocolate Walnuts
Dark chocolate is a superfood. Walnuts are a superfood. So combining them would be super-duper, right? You bet’cha. These snacky bits are so super, in fact, I figured they’d come with a cape. Luckily though, no cape. Edna Mode would … Continue reading
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Lindt Lindor Dark Chocolate Truffles
Dark chocolate is awesome. We all know this. It’s decadent. It’s bittersweet. It’s good for your heart. It may even prevent some forms of cancer! But when chocolate touts itself as dark but isn’t? It’s not just a sad trombone for … Continue reading
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Ghirardelli’s Intense Dark Raspberry dark chocolate bar
I remain a bit prejudiced against Ghirardelli because for a long time the only item of theirs I’d had was Flicks. Have you had those? Large chocolate kisses (about half again as big in diamater as a Hersey’s Kiss, but … Continue reading
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Chocolove’s Coffee Crunch in Dark Chocolate
Leona Wisoker penned this review. With a fifty five percent cocoa content, as well as bits of ground up coffee beans in the mix, and the wrapper is a basic brown with black text; the graphics are based around an international-traveler … Continue reading
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Carletti’s Jakobsen Coffee Time chocolate collection
Danish chocolates? Don’t mind if I do! Especially when the package itself gives me a great excuse to indulge. Coffee time? Yes please! And while these chocolates would go great with coffee, I had mine with a stout, and then … Continue reading
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Vosges Haut-Chocolat
Applewood bacon, alderwood smoked salt, hickory smoked almonds, plus guajillo and pasilla chilis – oh my! This exotic selection of ingredients are just a few of the flavor surprises in store for chocolate aficionados, such as myself, when they reach … Continue reading
Ghirardelli’s Intense Dark Blood Orange Sunset bar
This bar is part of a line of Intense Dark chocolate bars from Ghirardelli. Others include Sea Salt Soiree, Raspberry Radiance, Hazelnut Heaven and Salted Caramel Cascade. This one is relatively new, having been introduced in 2019. The bar is … Continue reading
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Ritter Sport Golden Edition, Milk Chocolate Squares
I have another (huge) bar of chocolate from Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG of Germany , a major chocolatier. This one is the Ritter Sport Golden Edition Milk Chocolate Squares, and when I say “huge”, I mean just that: … Continue reading
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Ritter Sport: Two Limited Edition Candies, Raspberry Creme and Buttermilk Lemon
As you will remember, Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG is a major German chocolatier and candy manufacturer. I happen to have recently received two of their Limited Edition candies for review, Raspberry Creme and Buttermilk Lemon, which means, sadly, that I … Continue reading
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Ritter Sport Dark Chocolate with Marzipan
I have a love/hate relationship with almond candies. I adore candies with the whole (or chopped) nut added in. Candied almonds are also quite yummy. But then there’s marzipan. Perhaps it’s because I was raised on the quality stuff straight … Continue reading
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