This is all personal preference; feel free to let me know what you think in the comments!
Bar: Esmeraldas 70% Maker: The Roasting Masters (Seoul, South Korea) Price: $7.50/35g (Direct From Maker) Munch Factor: 3/10 Ingredients: Cocoa beans, cane sugar, soy lecithin (0.5%). Appearance: first thing that catches …
Bar: 80% Dark Maker: Sun Eaters Organics (Maracas Valley, Trinidad) Price: $9/45g (LUVCACAO) Munch Factor: 6/10 Ingredients: Trinitario Cacao Beans, Demerara Sugar, Organic Cacao Butter . Appearance: dark blue horizontal-oriented packaging with a valley on …
Bar: Malaysia 72% w/ Nibs Maker: Benn’s Chocolate (Selangor, Malaysia) Price: $—/65g (Gift in Chocolate Swap) Munch Factor: 6/10 Ingredients: cacao nibs, cane sugar, cocoa butter, emulsifier: soy lecithin [E322], cacao …
Bar: Salted Egg Cereal Bar Maker: Fossa Chocolate (Singapore) Price: $14/40g (Direct From Maker) Munch Factor: 7.5/10 Ingredients: cocoa butter, milk powder, sugar, salted egg yolk, cereal, butter, curry leaves, chilli padi, …
But Wait…Why is it a Question? To start, I want to address the elephant dominating the tail end of the sentence— a question mark. Concerns were raised by fellow chocolate …
Bar: Ambrosia Dark Pollen 65% Maker: Naive Chocolate (Eastern Lithuania) Price: ~$10/57g (The Chocolate House in Washington, D.C., USA) Munch Factor: 7/10 Ingredients: organic cacao, organic sugar, organic cacao butter, wild …
Bar: Hilo 70% (Hawai’i) Maker: Manoa Chocolate (Kailua, HI, USA) Price: $8.49/50g (Caputo’s Market online store) Munch Factor: 5/10 Ingredients: Cacao, Organic Sugar, Organic Cocoa Butter. Appearance: Manoa’s packaging is …
Bar: Taiwan #1 62% Maker: Fuwan Chocolate (Pingtung County, Taiwan) Price: $9/45g (Direct From Maker) Munch Factor: 6/10 Ingredients: Cacao Beans, Sugar, Cocoa Butter. Appearance: plain dark brown color with a …
Bar: Strawberry Basil 67% (the Dominican Republic) Maker: Raaka Chocolate (Brookly, NY, USA) Price: $10/50g (Cacao Review online shop) Munch Factor: 7/10 Ingredients: Organic Cacao Beans, Organic Cane Sugar, Organic …
Bar: 75% with Coffee Nibs Maker: República Del Cacao (Quito, Ecuador) Price: $6/100g (Quito Tourist Center) Overall Rating: 3/10 Munch Factor: 2/10 Ingredients: Cacao Liquor, Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Coffee Nibs, Soy …