PrintFavorite Chocolate Bar
When you get hit with a craving for chocolate, what do you reach for? I reach for anything by Ritter Sport, particularly the dark or milk chocolate with whole hazelnuts or the alpine milk chocolate. Oh, or the chocolate covered biscuit. What about you? Do you reach for pure dark chocolate? Milk chocolate? Something with nuts? Or fruit? Or will anything do?
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25 Comments:
chocolove the one with cherries and almonds
sustarz at 10:56PM on 02/27/08
It's the most simple candy bar on the planet: Mars bars with almonds. Also, I really love Lindt Swiss chocolates, my favorites are the truffle cake and hazelnut.
PumpkinBear at 11:04PM on 02/27/08
Vahlrona dark chocolate with hazelnut praline.
beth1 at 11:09PM on 02/27/08
I am still looking for the ultimate chocolate, and when I see an interesting brand new brand, I tend to buy it and try it, but I'm still looking for that one brand that will make me forget all the others.
I usually buy plain chocolate, because there's a good chance I'll use at least some in a recipe, but I love nuts and chocolate. So it will be a little handfull of nuts to eat alongside the chocolate.
dbcurrie at 11:27PM on 02/27/08
scharffenberger milk chocolate.
cybercita at 11:28PM on 02/27/08
Scharffenberger's Nibby Bar, or something dark with almonds. Gotta have that crunch!
Christina at 11:38PM on 02/27/08
Vosges Barcelona bar. Dark milk chocolate, smoked almonds and grey sea salt. Best. Candy. Bar. Ever.
evilchefmom at 11:47PM on 02/27/08
Until recently, it was Vosges Red Fire or Black Pearl, but I just discovered a new chocolatier Chuao who makes a Spicy Mayan Bar that blew my mind! Chiles, cinnamon and deep chocolate - it rocks.
frederika at 12:36AM on 02/28/08
Have any of you guys tasted Mexican chocolate? In Mexican markets you can purchase big chunks of it or packaged circles of it for hot chocolate. It tastes so unlike other chocolates. It's really heavy on the cinnamon and spices.
PumpkinBear at 1:07AM on 02/28/08
Frederika--if you live anywhere near a Chuao shop, try their other chocolates. I got my husband some for Valentine's Day. They have amazing flavors (some with chiles, pop rocks, goat cheese, etc). They're by far his favorite (and he says he "doesn't like chcocolate). And their hot chocolate is great, too.
beth1 at 1:19AM on 02/28/08
Anything Valrhona.
LoCo at 1:35AM on 02/28/08
A local chocolatier makes numerous "tasting bars" & my current favorite is a 52% dark choc one:)
JEP at 5:33AM on 02/28/08
If the world was perfect, I'd have a steady supply of the chocolate, caramel covered pecan "turtles". Christmas, doesn't start until I've got my carton of Frango Mint Chocolates (now held by Marshall Field I believe...). For everyday munchies, don't get between me and a Snickers especially if it's the newer dark chocolate version.
czken at 8:23AM on 02/28/08
in an ideal world: neuhaus
in my limited broke college student world: dove chocolates, mmmm smooth and creamy.
machellebelle at 9:44AM on 02/28/08
I rarely buy chocolate just to eat (because if I did that every time I wanted chocolate...), though I bake with it a lot. But my favorites are:
Theo coconut curry milk chocolate or fig & fennel dark chocolate
Chocolove dark with crystallized ginger or dark with chiles & cherries
Jacques Torres peanut butter bar
Also love Valrhona, Mexican chocolate and Ritter with cornflakes.
Oh! And anything they sell in any convenience shop in London or Dublin that's laden with crunchies, chewies, caramel, etc. :)
CookiePie at 9:59AM on 02/28/08
Ritter Sport or Snickers, if you count that one. One for high-quality chocolate, and one for those salty/sweet/nougat cravings that I can often have. : )
Traveller at 10:56AM on 02/28/08
I never really liked dark chocolate until this year. I was always a strict milk-chocolate gal, the nuttier the better. But then it changed when, in a snow storm, and desperate for chocolate, I bought Hershey's dark treasures with nuts...OH. MY. GOD. The heavens opened and I saw what I'd been missing.
AlBee at 1:04PM on 02/28/08
Ritter Sport Cornflakes. Seriously awesome. Ridiculously expensive.
Toblerone. Mnnnn toblerone.
lorelei76 at 1:40PM on 02/28/08
Trader Joe's used to have truffles in a gold box. Haven't seen em at my local TJ's in ages...thought of often...missed greatly...
I used to love Baby Ruth's until this past Halloween...I ate one and couldn't figure out why they tasted so different from my childhood memories.
These days, I'll go for any dark chocolate. Have not tried the Ritters...yet.
wookie at 2:17PM on 02/28/08
Local company Omanhene (Milwaukee, WI) deals in chocolate from Ghana. The company story is interesting and the chocolate is very good.
Worth a look if you are truly into chocolate.
jasonbrink at 2:17PM on 02/28/08
Can anyone corroborate the fact that Ritter Sport is made by Cadbury Europe? Someone brought back what they said was Cadbury bars from the UK and they were wrapped as Ritter Sport if I remember correctly.
Also a brand new company named Askinosie is producing some unbelievable bean to bar chocolate. If you like deep chocolate, you have to try it. They use Mexican and Ecudoran cacao and it will truly blow your mind.
frederika at 12:29AM on 02/29/08
cote d'or dark chocolate - must be bought and consumed in belgium
vickith at 5:19PM on 03/10/08
When I can find it, Dagoba Chai 37%. It's absolutely amazing; filled with candied ginger and flavored with chai spices. Hands down my favorite chocolate bar, but the only place I've been able to find it is a two and a half hour drive away.
When I can't, I have Lindt milk chocolate or Ghirardelli on hand. I also (somewhat embarrassingly) like Hershey's milk, even though it's the processed cheese food of chocolate.
jenilowrance at 5:34PM on 03/10/08
Cadbury's Wispa.
brooke29 at 5:39PM on 03/10/08
Second the Wispa. A thing of beauty. It's a guilty pleasure. Not the best chocolate, but the best chocolate guilty pleasure bar.
souldawg at 6:18PM on 03/10/08