"Decadent chocolate bars" Topic

Ok, in the same care package as the nuts, my mom sent me a Lindt Chili Dark Chocolate bar. The chili is ok as is the Sea Salt, but neither is my fave. I almost always prefer mint flavors or fruit filling/flavoring a close second. So what's your favorite decadent (defined as Lindt, Tobler, Ghirardelli, Hershey's special bars, etc.) chocolate bar?

I have always liked 99 Flake bars, Caramello Bars and Skor. Tobler are pretty good as well. American chocolate really isn't as good as its European counter part and it needs something else to go with it to make it stand out.

I have a weakness for Lindt white chocolate.

Lindt truffles aka Lindor truffles. I buy them as stocking stuffers at Christmas, but end up eating them all because my family doesn't want them.

Anything by Whittakers. The kiwifruit is the family favorite.

Rick

A slave to dark and white Toblerone

Lindt truffles or chocolate bars, luscious!

Dark Hershey is fine.

"Dark Hershey is fine"

No, he said chocolate bars. Heaven knows what they put in Hershey bars but it surely can't be chocolate. Quote from a recent UK/US military trials event:

US trials officer "Whats a Mars Bar"
UK trials officer "Its like a Hershey Bar, except it tastes nice"

:)

Dark Choclate with ctystallized ginger!
Sundance, where are you that your Momis sending you care packages?
Weaselhoffen.

Pretty much anything by Godiva. However, I also like Cadbury's Dairy Milk: You've got to appreciate the commonplace to savour the divine.

Ferrero Roche (ok not a bar). Galaxy with hazelnuts. Milka (purple packets) with hazelnuts, or normal milka. No plain chocolate, white chocolate, fruit or other such carp.

The missus and my dad love the Green and Blacks plain chocolate with cherry.

Monsieur, with these Rocher you are spoiling us!

All things chocolate!…no, not bugs…

If it is decadent, you should have checked the 'use by' date before you bought it.

Raducci, I think you mistook decadent for decedent.
I've always loved Tobler, and Heath Bars.

Or I could just be dense this morning.

American chocolate really isn't as good as its European counter part and it needs something else to go with it to make it stand out.

While I would generally agree with you, the 62% Cacao Semisweet chocolate bar by Scharffen Berger is very good, and IMHO stands up with the best of the European bars.

By far my favorite chocolate is from Norman Love Confections. My wife and I are lucky enough to live nearby, so we always pick up a box of his wonderful chocolates for our birthdays, our wedding anniversary, and Valentine's Day.

The different tastes people prefer is chocolates is pretty interesting. My son and wife are from the Ukraine, and their chocolate is very dark, and has very little sugar. I think is it is some of the worst I have ever tasted. I like Hershey's. I think being in the US, that is what I grew up on, and so I'm used to the Hershey's taste (very sweet). Anyone else have a different specific taste they have noticed in their country?
Kevin

Belgian supermarkets do an orange chocolate bar that is superb. My Belgian friend moved to Sweden so I think I am out of luck for them…

Terry's Chocolate Orange, the traditional milk chocolate one, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Christmas isn't Christmas unless I've eaten a whole one before noon on Christmas Day. I normally get bought at least 3 for presents.

Another favourite is Thornton's Viennese Truffles.

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I'm very fond of the Godiva (or Ghirardelli) dark chocolate, particularly with the raspberry filling. That, to me, is a superb flavor combination. I also like both Skor and Heath toffee bars, probably with a slight edge to Skor.

Doug

For chocolate *bars* I like a 60-70% dark chocolate and there are several good brands. It's just chocolate, unadulterated except for a little sugar.

When it comes to confections, things with fruit filling etc, there are a lot of things I like. Godiva makes a nut cream filling that is pretty good, but I don't care much for their chocolate. Russel Stover, our local brand makes caramels and chews that I like, and I just discovered they do a very good peppermint bark with dark chocolate at Christmas. I think Trader Joes has a really good peppermint bark, too. Both are made with real cocoa butter in their white chocolate.

Bendicks Bitter Mints. Bitter chocolate (95%) and a lovely mint filling. Superb!

Scharffen Berger, Godiva, or Ghiradelli for me, too. However, I loves me some Cadbury Fruit and Nut!

I have tried them all and Hershey's with almonds is the best. Dark chocolate is a waste of chocolate im my opinion. I hear people talking about all these great European chocolates and I try them and am not impressed. I still like most of them (it is chocolate!)but the Hersheys hate is pure BS!!!
We have Mars bars in the US (may not be the same as England) and they probably don't sell 1/20th of what Hersheys does.

Never been a big fan of chocolate…

I make my own, Ghiradelli 60% baking chips with dried papaya and mango. Learning to temper the chocolate has been a bit of a chore, but I know have dark chocolate bars at about 1/3 the cost.

We get our chocolate from Pierre Marcolini here in Brussels.

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I make my own, Ghiradelli 60% baking chips with dried papaya and mango. Learning to temper the chocolate has been a bit of a chore, but I know have dark chocolate bars at about 1/3 the cost.

This needs to be a workbench article.

Doug

Turkish Delight for me.

When I was a lad it was Frye's* Turkish Delight, now it's Sultan's Turkish Delight.

(* Or was it Fry's? Can't even remember now. Sigh.)

My Canadian wife notices a difference between American chocolate (Hershey's, et al) and European and Canadian chocolates – she says American chocos taste "chemically". If you compare the list of ingredients, there is indeed a lot of crap in the cheaper American produced chocos that aren't in the better chocos.

Nestle milk chocolate bar. Much better than Hershey. I also used to like the Cadbury chocolate, but that is made by Hershey in the U.S. now.

Niederegger or Ritter dark-chocolate-covered marzipan.

Lindt Excellence or Green & Black's 85%.

Bendick's "Sporting & Military", now sadly discontinued.

All the best,

John.

Princeps has it for me! You can't beat a good Belgian chocolatier (though I suppose the Swiss might argue).

Bendicks, Lindt and Cadbury's Bournville for less exalted chocs.

Hersheys – YUK!!!

What's the deal with Godiva? I see it at airports worldwide, but never in Cov!

Contrary to what you might think I rarely buy chocolate, but it has a habit of magically disappearing very quickly in my vicinity…..

Cadbury's Fruit and Nut
Simples
:-)

The dark chocolate Ferrero Roche. Mmmmmmmm. I think I need to go downstairs now…

Rob

I've been known to succumb to Malteasers too.

THORNTONS !!!

Green & Blacks Organic Dark Chocolate.

Thortons Dark Chocolate Caramels.

But really, my favourite is a big block of Cadburys Dairy Milk, just what you need when charging about on the hills all day, along with a tray of flapjack.

Thought Cadbury's was made in China now. I also thought I learned that last Easter when there was a recall of some Chinese produced chocolate which included Cadbury's.

Semi-sweet baking chocolate. It's kickass.

I have a craving for Frys peppermint cream now

Dark Chocolate Raspberry