Friday, December 17, 2010

Divine Milk Chocolate with Spiced Cookies

Divine Milk Chocolate with Spiced CookiesI found the Divine Milk Chocolate with Spiced Cookies while in San Francisco last month. It seemed like the perfect place to pick up a limited edition bar for the winter season, as San Francisco always seems to be cold when I’m there.

I usually like the Divine packages; I like the simplicity and flexibility of the icons on the solid color field. The designs are color coded so it’s easy to pick out your favorite on a crowded shelf at the store. This breaks with that tradition and the wrapper sports a shiny red ribbon and bow. Not a pretty hand tied bow, but one of those cheap stick on bows. The design is done with a bit of tromp l’oiel that just ruins it because of the violation of scale.

The bar is made of mostly fair trade ingredients (the chocolate and the sugar) and is all natural though not organic.

Divine Spiced Cookie

The bar is soft, both because the cookies are crumbly and the milk chocolate isn’t quite as crisp as some. The chocolate has a very strong yogurty-dairy flavor to it, a little on the side of cheese even. I’m not keep on this more earthy and grassy flavor of milk chocolate. The chocolate melt is also a bit thick and sticky but very smooth. The cookies are quite good and have a well rounded flavor profile with a hint of ginger, black pepper, a graham cracker base and a hint of salt.

I liked it and eventually finished the bar (with a little help) but I don’t think this is quite for me. It’s a good candy bar that uses fair trade chocolate, but it’s not what I’d consider a good chocolate bar. The spiced cookies are a nice change from crisped rice and plain ginger, but not quite enough for me to wish that they’d make this bar all year round.

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  5. Divine Fair Trade Chocolate


Name: Milk Chocolate with Spiced Cookies
    RATING:
  • SUPERB
  • YUMMY
  • TASTY
  • WORTH IT
  • TEMPTING
  • PLEASANT
  • BENIGN
  • UNAPPEALING
  • APPALLING
  • INEDIBLE
Brand: Divine Chocolate
Place Purchased: Fog City News (San Francisco)
Price: $4.50
Size: 3.5 ounces
Calories per ounce: 148
Categories: All Natural, Candy, Christmas, Divine Chocolate, Chocolate, Cookie, Ethically Sourced, Limited Edition, 7-Worth It, Germany

POSTED BY Cybele AT 10:55 am Tracker Pixel for Entry     All NaturalCandyChristmasDivine ChocolateChocolateCookieEthically SourcedLimited Edition7-Worth ItGermany

Comments
  1. Oh, I love this bar! I picked on up since I had a $1 off a Divine bar coupon and that made it a reasonable treat. The spices and milk chocolate make a nice combination.

    Comment by RR on 12/18/10 at 11:08 am #
  2. Hi,
    My name is Lauren McQueen and your photos are beautifully crafted and such. please tell me what your camera model is.

    Lauren McQueen

    Comment by Lauren McQueen on 1/18/11 at 4:46 pm #
  3. I love your Candy Blog, but wanted to suggest something…

    In the way of Fair Trade chocolate, I recently tried a bar that was simply a DELIGHT. It’s organic and fair trade, so it’s also non-guilt-ridden. C:

    The bar is Alter Eco’s “Dark Chocolate Velvet (With a Delicate Touch of Milk)” ... it is originally made in Bolivia, yay! XD The cocoa percent is about 50.

    Anyway, it was wonderful, so I thought if you ever spotted it you could review it.

    Comment by Devyn on 2/15/11 at 4:26 am #
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