Leftover Holiday Chocolate
Throughout the holiday season I tried a few seasonal items here and there to see how they were and in general I was really pretty disappointed. I think it’s a matter of my tastes not lining up with what I was trying, but things just didn’t click for me on some things.
First up on the hate parade of holiday chocolate goodies is the Christmas Cocoa Jones Soda (which I can't find any links to aside from a review or two). I had high hopes that this might live up to my beloved Whooppee (that I can’t find any more). Something in the taste just didn’t sit right with me. It’s not that it was bad – it hit cocoa from a packet on the head pretty well – there was just something in it that I didn’t really like. So I poured the rest of my bottle down the drain and gave the remainders to my family to try. Hopefully they liked it better than I did.
The next item that didn’t live up to my high expectation was the Lindt Excellence Holiday Spice bar (which I can find no links to anywhere at all) I found at Target. Based on the ingredients they seem to have chosen cinnamon and coriander as their holiday spices. I can agree with the cinnamon, but coriander? Maybe it’s just beyond my experience. Anyway, something in the flavor was just off. Everybody I gave a piece of this bar to panned it, so I’m not alone. I think that if they had a different set of holiday spices that it could have been really good. I love their normal Excellence dark chocolate bars so I can’t imagine that it wouldn’t be good with the right spices.
Not all was disappointing, though. I had a really nice Raspberry Hot Chocolate from Nordstrom of all places. And the horrifying mess I made trying to make liqueur filled chocolates was absolutely wonderful stuff. I got some chocolate covered pretzel sticks and some buckeyes from my sister’s family (my nephews make some good chocolate treats) and these are always a nice thing. I also had some really nice brownie action from Sugardaddy's, but that's a topic for another day. Probably Sunday since I won't be able to get back there until Saturday.
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Alexandra Said:
I actually really enjoyed the cinnamon and coriander Lindt. Not sure if it's the exact same version as the one I had was brought over by a friend from Germany but I found the coriander was really mild yet interesting although the cinnamon definitely stole the show in that bar.
Posted by: Alexandra | January 11, 2008 1:18 PM
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Chocoflyer Said:
Ialso was a big fan of the Holiday Lindt bars- mmmm cinnamon and dark choc- the coriander was not tooo strong and I thought the taste was exactly perfect for winter/Xmas time flavors. I also got some other bars at Traget with similar flavors- Swiss brand with lots of funky flavors- I will scan and post when I get the time.
Target really has one heck of a great choc-section, I love going there just to find new stuff no one else carries- like Ritter Sport bars, Endangered Species choc and Choxie (which is their own brand and not very good- cheap choc tastes waxy) Also this is the first store i saw the NEW Rasberry 3 Muskateers with dark choc- YUM- love love love them.....
Posted by: Chocoflyer | April 2, 2008 6:35 PM