Chocolate Lab
Chocolate Lab in our Shopping Guide
Chocolatier’s Choice (milk, sugar, and cocoa butter base)
Winner
Fleur de Sel Caramel
Cadeaux Chocolates
The Goods Vanilla caramel dipped in bittersweet chocolate and topped with fleur de sel.
Percent Cacao: 60
Region of Origin Multiorigin
Why We Love It “That’s good caramel,” said one taster. Another called this savory-and-sweet concoction “sophisticated.”
Sweet Success Secret Precision. Shimada’s exacting process ensures heat is always evenly distributed, the key to creating silky caramel.
Runner-Up
Perfect Peanut Butter
Seattle Chocolates
The Goods Peanuts and creamy peanut butter in a dark candy shell.
Percent Cacao: Blend: 30 white, 53 dark
Region of Origin West Africa
Why We Love It This “fancy nutter butter” evoked its peanut butter predecessors, then left them in the dust.
Sweet Success Secret Genius. Seattle Chocolate’s “meltaway” center melts at 76 degrees, 20 degrees lower than its outer shell.
Honorable Mention
Mozart Kugeln
Boehm’s Candies
The Goods Bittersweet dark chocolate with hazelnut ganache and a marzipan center.
Percent Cacao: 62
Region of Origin Multiorigin
Why We Love It It was the “excellent” flavor combo of marzipan and bittersweet chocolate that won us over.
Sweet Success Secret Homage. The rose-oil-infused almond marzipan is a tribute to a classic Salzburg confection.
Published: March 2009
