What Is Couverture Chocolate? (Complete Guide)
Couverture chocolate is well-known within the chocolate industry, and without it, most of your favorite chocolate shops would have never gotten started. This strange stuff– which you may have never …
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What Are Chocolate Inclusions? (Guide to Flavored Chocolates)
Think of your favorite chocolate; just humor me. Is it a smooth milk chocolate? Or a dark bar with whole almonds on the back? Oh, or maybe a sweet white …
*Roasting Masters Esmeraldas 70%
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 …
*Sun Eaters Organics 80% Dark
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 …
*Benn’s Chocolate Malaysia 72% w/ Nibs
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 …
Alluvia Chocolatier: Vietnam’s Newest Bean-To-Bar Chocolate Maker?
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 …
*Naive Ambrosia Dark Pollen 65%
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 …
*Manoa Chocolate Hilo 70%
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 …
*Fuwan Chocolate Taiwan #1 62%
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 …
*Raaka Strawberry Basil 67%
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 …