Food review: Chrissy’s Raw Chocolate (Plain)
Rating: **** (out of 5)
Review by: Ami Bender
I received this handmade raw chocolate, called Chrissy’s Chocolate, from Alexa, without knowing anything about it. Just some chocolate in the mail. The first thing I did was open it up and smell it. I could smell cocoa and carobs. Nice. The colour was rich and dark. So far so good.
The next thing I looked at were the ingredients – and I have to say, I was impressed. Nothing unnatural: lots of good, organic stuff including mesquite, lucuma, natural sugars and Himalayan pink salt, with the first 4 ingredients being all chocolate or carob related.
The next test was the taste test. This is a very rich, slightly bitter chocolate with a strong flavour of carobs. It’s rather dry and crumbly. One of the nicest bits about it was that the flavour and texture was not uniform. Texture was introduced by occasional cocoa nibs and flavors changed pleasantly when you hit a bit of Himalayan salt. The bitterness was offset with just enough sweetness not to be overpowering. But if you like your chocolate sweet, this isn’t the bar for you.
Okay, enough about me. Time for the girlfriend test. This is a dangerous test that should not be performed by amateurs. First off, I let my girlfriend smell the chocolate and look at it, then grabbed it off her. Based on the bruising per square inch, she liked it. I then handed her the chocolate and let her taste it, then tried to take it off her again to see how violently she reacted. Enough said.
Conclusion: this is a great chocolate, if you are looking for a dark, slightly bitter one with the taste of carob. In fact if you like carob, and don’t want anything too sweet, this is probably one of the nicest I’ve tasted in a while. If you’re not that partial to carob, or don’t like bitter chocolate, I suggest you think of looking elsewhere.
Further information:
Chrissy’s Chocolate (official site)
Love your post! Carob is a good alternative for people with a sweet tooth like me. It can be strong enough to knock you out of your chair or light (if combined) to satiate a craving. But the one thing in this chocolate that makes my mouth salivates badly is the combo of dark choco with lucuma. Yummy!!! I love lucuma ice cream with fudge or in smoothies, but did not know that they are already using it with bars. Will have to give it a try. Thanks for the tip