Bar: Sea Salt 62% Maker: Brasstown Chocolate (Winston-Salem, NC, USA) Price: $10/60g (Direct From Maker) Munch Factor: 6/10 Ingredients: Certified Organic Cacao Beans, Raw Sugar, Certified Organic Cocoa Butter, Chardonnay Oak Smoked Sea Salt. Appearance: deep blue rectangular packaging with the heavyhanded “BRASSTOWN” printed across the front and a blacked-out bottom underlining a boat in shadow. The …

Bar: Lemon Milk Chocolate 45% Maker: Theo’s Chocolate (Seattle, WA, USA) Price: $4/85g (Direct From Maker) Munch Factor: 7.5/10 Ingredients: Organic Fair Trade Cane Sugar, Organic Fair Trade Cacao Beans, Organic Fair Trade Cacao Butter, Organic Milk Powder, Organic Lemon Essential Oil, Organic Fair Trade Ground Vanilla Bean. Appearance: like all Theo bars, this one is rectangular with the circular …

Bar: Brazil with Coffee Nibs 75% Maker: Akesson Chocolate (London, England) Price: $11/60g (Direct From Maker) Munch Factor: 3/10 Ingredients: cocoa, cane sugar, pure cocoa butter, coffee nibs (5%), emulsifier (GMO-free soya lecithin). Appearance: the brightly-colored square packaging of Akesson’s bars has become a sort of trade mark of the brand, this vibrant yellow-green providing stark contrast to the …

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, sea salt. Appearance: the small, thin white bar really pops off the shelf, a yellow border highlighting the simplicity. Inside is a packed, caramel-colored bar …

Bar: Fall Spice Dark Milk (Brazil) Maker: Harper Macaw (Washington, D.C., USA) Price: ~$12.25/70g (The Chocolate House in Washington, D.C., USA) Munch Factor: 4/10 Ingredients: cocoa beans, cane sugar, cocoa butter, nonfat milk, organic pumpkin [organic pumpkin, organic maltodextrin], cassia cinnamon, elephant ginger, pemba cloves, stone nutmeg. Appearance: beautiful teal and burnt orange color scheme, pleasing the eye …

Bar: Wild Gorse Flower (Nicaragua) Maker: Chocolarder Chocolate (Ponsanooth, England, UK) Price: ~$6.50/65g (gift from a friend) Munch Factor: 8.5/10 Ingredients: Cocoa Beans, Unrefined Raw Sugar, Whole Milk Powder, Cocoa Butter, Gorse Flowers. Appearance: the packaging is attractive with its simple brown paper wrapping and the sticker identifying origin & a host of other variables regarding …

Bar: Taiwan 75% With Red Quinoa & Coffee Maker: Chomeet Chocolate (Taichung, Taiwan) Price: ~$10/100g (Direct From Maker) Munch Factor: 3/10 Ingredients: Taiwanese Cacao, Sugar, Taiwanese Red Quinoa, Taiwanese Coffee. Appearance: This earliest iteration of their 75% chocolate came in a glass jar, labelled and stuffed with striped squares, each dotted with bright red quinoa and coffee …

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 chocolate with bits of dried fruit? Whatever your fare of choice is, I’m sure you’ve run into some variants of those bars. The last two …

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 Cocoa Butter, Organic Strawberry, Organic Basil. Appearance: this is a rectangular bar with funky etched lines and dug-out rectangles throughout; the packaging design mimicks the …

As kids, we learn to eat our colors. This chocolate is white, maybe an aged-parchment shade of white, though white all the same. But the packaging, oh the packaging is super colorful. That counts, right? I think my mom would be on board. In fact, she has all the tools to make this “bag to …