My favorite is the valrhona
#120 - Cafe Noir (3kg/6.6 lbs.) - New! @ $63.67

A dark chocolate blended with arabica coffee.

Truly wonderful.
I use Sparrow to buy my chocolates.
http://www.chocolatebysparrow.com/default.php4



"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
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> I haven't tried any of the coffee-flavored, high-cacao-content
> chocolates. I don't want to waste time sampling the losers.
> Who makes the best ones?
>
>
>

marian wrote:

> My favorite is the valrhona
> #120 - Cafe Noir (3kg/6.6 lbs.) - New! @ $63.67
>
> A dark chocolate blended with arabica coffee.

That sounds good. Valrhona is my favorite dark chocolate.
Today, I picked up some Newman's Own and Scharffen
Berger coffee-flavored dark chocolate bars. The cocoa
solids content of the Newman's wasn't stated, but it must
have been quite low. The bar was way too sweet for me.
After one bite, I threw it away.

The Scharffen Berger was almost as bad. At first,
I thought it had granulated sugar in it. It had some
sort of grit. It turned out to be coffee grounds!
They just put ground coffee in their chocolate.
Whoever formulated this bar was an idiot.

I haven't mail-ordered any chocolate before, but
I guess that's the only way I'll get to try Valrhona's
coffee-flavored chocolate. I don't think I care
to order 3 kilograms of it, though.

In article >, Mark Thorson wrote:
> That sounds good. Valrhona is my favorite dark chocolate.
> [...]
>
> I haven't mail-ordered any chocolate before, but I guess that's the
> only way I'll get to try Valrhona's coffee-flavored chocolate. I
> don't think I care to order 3 kilograms of it, though.

They've also released this chocolate in the 100g bar form, in packaging
similar to the Le Noir/Le Noir Amer line. It has a greenish brown
color stripe, as Le Noir Amer has a red one. Web sites such as
chocosphere.com carry it. This will obviously be much cheaper than
ordering 3 kg, though if you ordered from the Web, shipping would still
make it expensive unless you ordered other things at the same time.

Are you, by chance, in the SF North Bay area? (Other people I know with
sonic.net addresses are from there.) If so, there have *got* to be some
places that carry the new Valrhona bars not too far from you.

Blake

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