Monday, September 6, 2010

Cowgirl Chocolates Mild Milk Chocolate Sarsaparilla

Cowgirl Chocolate Mild Milk Chocolate SasparillaCowgirl Chocolates is an Idaho confectioner that makes spicy things. They’re known for their hot pepper caramels and and spiced up chocolate bars. Some of their flavors are less intimidating but also provoke curiosity; combinations like Spicy Dark Orange Espresso, Spicy Milk Chocolate Mint and Spicy Dark Huckleberry.

The wrapping on the bars is cute and simple. The text is bold and dominates with the name of the bar, which is basically a description of the flavor combination. The chocolate comes in spicy or mild and milk, white or dark. Each package is color coded and features a silhouette of a woman on a horse in the center.

I was drawn to the Mild Milk Chocolate Sarsaparilla at a local restaurant supply store called Surfas. Sarsaparilla is a new world vine that’s the basis for the flavor. Sarsaparilla was used in conjunction with Sassafras to create the flavor we know now as Root Beer. I don’t drink much soda any longer, but if I were to pick something up, it would probably be a really strong root beer. True Sarsaparilla is pretty hard to find. The ingredients on this bar list sarsaparilla oil as one of the flavorings.

Cowgirl Chocolate Mild Milk Chocolate Sarsaparilla

The bar is a light milk chocolatey plank, divided into six sections. It’s a small bar, but I prefer a little taste of novelty flavors instead of the big 3.5 ounce tablets.

The scent is light and woodsy with a strong note of sassafras (though there is no actual sassafras in there). The melt is just slight grainy with a hint of dairy flavors. It’s quite sweet, one of my least favorite things about sodas.

The flavor is very complex, it’s woodsy, a deep rooty flavor that reminds me of beets and molasses. There are notes of pine, cinnamon, cloves, eucalyptus, wintergreen, lemon and nutmeg. What’s missing is the actual chocolate flavor. It made me wonder if this would have worked better with a white chocolate base ... or perhaps a dark chocolate one. It’s really hard to find root beer flavored candies, especially in the finer quality range.

I still finished the whole bar, but the overt sweetness gave me a sore throat so I had to eat it in three different sittings.

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Name: Mild Milk Chocolate Sarsaparilla
    RATING:
  • SUPERB
  • YUMMY
  • TASTY
  • WORTH IT
  • TEMPTING
  • PLEASANT
  • BENIGN
  • UNAPPEALING
  • APPALLING
  • INEDIBLE
Brand: Cowgirl Chocolates
Place Purchased: Surfas
Price: $2.50
Size: 1.25 ounces
Calories per ounce: 149
Categories: Candy, Chocolate, 6-Tempting, United States

POSTED BY Cybele AT 10:48 am Tracker Pixel for Entry     CandyChocolate6-TemptingUnited States

Comments
  1. We are interested in selling items made with sarsaparilla in our gift shop here at the museum. do you have wholesale pricing?

    Comment by Sharlene Roesener on 9/22/16 at 9:35 am #
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