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Goodnow Farms Asochivite Chocolate with Maple Sugar – Sure to Delight
The Goodnow Farms Chocolate Single Origin, Small Batch, 70% Cacao Asochivite Premium Dark Chocolate from Guatemala with Maple Sugar, was a gift from a beloved family member this holiday season. We’re so thankful. Maple sugar?! We’d never had chocolate with maple sugar. What kind of decadence awaited our taste buds?! This was simply too exciting. The chocolate packaging featured two layers — a beautiful, textured paper with the branding label on the exterior, and on the interior, a golden wrapper hugging the cocoa.
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Monday Melt: Inspiring Chocolate Poster
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La Naya Chocolate: Delicious Experience for Taste-buds and Thoughts Alike
It goes without question that La Naya's chocolate bars have the most distinct and beautiful chocolate bar shape/mold in the current market. Reminiscent of a geodes or a cut jewel, this bar's shape is unforgettable.
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Magia Piura Peruvian ‘White Bean’ Cacao
The Magia Piura brand attracted Time Cupsouls' attention for a couple of reasons: 1) the branding has a celestial and tarot card/mystical element which makes it intriguing 2) the chocolate maker explained how some of the bars use white cacao, a special variety of cocoa and 3) this was the brand's first USA tour.
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New Chocolate Podcast: “The Slow Melt”
It’s with great excitement that Time Cupsoul shares a new podcast solely about chocolate, entitled, “The Slow Melt,” launched today. Why is Time Cupsoul sharing this first-ever chocolate podcast? Author and The Slow Melt podcast host, Ms. Simran Sethi, is deeply admired by Time Cupsoul for her innovative food and environmental writing. Her book, Bread, Wine and Chocolate, is a Time Cupsoul-approved, highly-recommended read for nature, chocolate and coffee lovers (yes, there’s a chapter on coffee, too, as well as bread and beer)! This podcast and Sethi’s work deserve to be…
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American Chocolate Bar #5: [Vosges Haut Chocolat]
Vosges Haut-Chocolat has attracted and will keep Time Cupsoul's attention forever.
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CLOSED: American Chocolate Bar #4: [Sucre Chocolate]
It was the bright packaging with the tiny cellophane "window" that initially drew Time Cupsoul to Sucré chocolate bars. The window serves as a small preview of the bar's design and content, and really is quite seductive. So how could the choice be made between the equally intriguing combinations of Sicilian Pistachio and Rose Petal, Candied Coffee, or Salted Pretzel?
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‘Luck of the Irish’ – Bean and Goose Chocolate Bar
Bean and Goose Chocolate is a sister-owned craft chocolate operation in Wexford, Ireland. Heeding a barista's recommendation, the "Single Origin Irish Sea Salt and Cocoa Nibs, Cocoa 76%," was purchased. Would pure chocolatier craftmanship and a touch of Irish luck make this bar a winner?
