My friend Dini M. also sent me a bag of dark chocolate caramels for Christmas.
These were really good caramels. They were very soft to chew and not overly sweet, which went well with the dark chocolate. I know it’s hard to tell in the photo, but yes, they were dark chocolate and not milk chocolate covered.
Thanks Dini!
My friend Dini M. sent me this chocolate for Christmas. It’s made by friends of hers in Illinois!
This was quite possibly the BEST toffee I have ever tasted. It was crunchy but it broke apart easily and melted into buttery goodness in my mouth, without a trace sticking to my teeth. It was covered in a really good milk chocolate too. I loved this candy!
Thanks Dini!
My friend Lucy H. sent me this wonderful box of chocolates from New York.
Inside was a selection of all dark chocolates!
These were REALLY good chocolates, and they came in so many varieties! My favorites were the honeycomb ones and the nut ones, including the chocolate-hazelnut fudge-like ones that you see above (they look half chocolate-half nut butter). My husband loved the chocolate covered cherries and jellies. But they were all declious!
Lucy also sent me a newspaper article about the long history of this store (really two stores, one in New Jersey and one in New York). The store has been run by four generations of the same family, and even the mayor of Jersey City waits in line to get these chocolates! Wow!
Thanks Lucy!
My game The Outer Worlds just shipped an expansion called Peril On Gorgon, and these chocolates were made for the team in the form of a Spacer’s Choice drug.
Inside were milk chocolate bits that looked like rocks and balls.
Fairly plain milk chocolate, but what a fun way to eat it!
Thanks Obsidian Spacer’s Choice!
My friend Lucy H. sent me several Mast bars to try, and I went straight for the dark chocolate, of course.
What’s gorgeous cover! And the chocolate was very good. I expected to like it since it was 80% cacao, but I was surprised that it tasted single origin even though the label doesn’t indicate that. There was a strong and distinct citrus flavor that made me think Ecuador or Costa Rica. And the chocolate flavor was strong too. All in all, a very good bar!
Thanks Lucy!
My friend Dini M. sent me this dark chocolate moodibar.
I have had one moodibar already, their tired bar, so it was nice to try the dark chocolate with no other flavorings. It was pretty good dark chocolate, probably about 60% cacao or so, with good flavor and just a little chalkiness. Dini sent me some milk chocolate moodibars too, so it will be interesting to compare them all.
Thanks Dini!
My friend Dini M. gave me this Mickey Mouse themed chocolate bar to try.
I expected this bar to be a so-so milk chocolate bar, given my past experience with Disney chocolates, but it was pretty good! It was quite chocolatey and it looked like a dark chocolate bar too, despite the addition of rice milk. I was quite pleasantly surprised!
Thanks Dini!
This was the last of the new Snickers bars that my friend Dini M. gave me.
I really liked their creamy almond butter bar, so I expected to like this bar too. But I found that the maple flavor made it too sweet, and it actually masked most of the almond and caramel flavor. It’s not a bad bar at all, but I think it was my third favorite of these new bars.
Thanks Dini!
My friend Dini M. also gave me this new Snickers bar.
This bar was two squares and was very similar to their creamy peanut butter bar, but it used almond butter in place of peanut butter. While I thought that was a strange choice, since Snickers slogan used to be “packed with peanuts”, I actually really liked this bar. In fact, I think I liked it better than their creamy peanut butter bar, which was quite good! The almond flavor just went so well with the caramel, and I think it was not quite as sweet.
Thanks Dini!
My friend Dini M. gave me this bar to try.
Inside were two milk chocolate squares, like large truffles. They were quite yummy. At first, I thought these were simply a repackaging of Peanut Butter Snickers, but that one had nougat and lots of peanut chunks, while this one had no nougat and just an occasional crunch of a peanut bit. However, I think I liked this one better, since nougat just adds unnecessary sweetness.
Thanks Dini!
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