A short podcast this month for the December 2022 chocolate eating highlights.
With the holiday season we did plenty of chomping, but only some of it was chocolate.
We did do 2 tastings of chocolate from LaPetite and Miann chocolate factory.  We also nibbled on some Cadbury Christmas Block and Donovans Lemon Meringue clusters.
We will be back in 2 months after our holiday with more chocolate tasting adventures!

A focus on Lucid Chocolatier and his chocolate bar medal winners, including the Supreme Medal Winner.
A look at a duo from Shirl + Moss
Oat milk bar from Wellington Chocolate factory
A gold medal winner at the NZ artisan awards
Foundry chocolate Whiskey bar and Tanzania Drinking Chocolate

We got to taste all the chocolate yummies from the Chocolate and Coffee festival and here are our thoughts on the chocolate we tried from:
Be Happy raw chocolate
Flint Chocolate Olive Oil bar
Baron Hasselhoffs Olive Oil bar
Foundry Chocolate
Fruney
Makana Confections
Mestiza
She Universe
Trice Chocolate
Valura Chocolate
Chocolate Brown

Also chocolate tasting notes of:
Whittakers Hazella and Gingerbread blocks.
Hogarth Chocolate Makers 82% Ecuador 

Our year of chocolate tasting thoughts and changes to our website.

A recorded tasting  of 7 single origin chocolates made by Foundry Chocolate.  
Joni & Johanan introducing single origin dark chocolate to:
Shallom
Desiree
Trey
Danielle
and now we have a new favourite single origin region.........

All the details on where we visited, where we parked, what were our favourites, on our Wellington Chocolate Tour. 
Featuring: 
Kapiti Chocolate Factory
The Chocolate Story
Baron Hasselhoff Chocolate Emporium
Kaffee Eis
Bohemein Fresh Chocolates
Wellington Chocolate Factory
Other mentions:
Havana Coffee
Duck Island Icecream
La Petite Chocolate shop

Other Chocolate Munchies
Hogarth Licorice Caramel
Raglan Chocolate Solomon Islands and Niblicious bars
Ocho 77% sugar free
Popcorn Maltesers
Nestle Chokito bar
Nestle Milky bar with Allens raspberry
Toffee pop chocolate brownie
Kit Kat Dark Raspberry and triple choc cookie
Frooze fudgetastic snack balls
Tom & Luke original dark snackballs
Tome & Luke Triple choc brownie snackballs

After our tastebuds disappeared for a month, we are back with another podcast episode.
Chocolate covered this podcast episode:

• Cadbury Layers versus the original bars
• A comparison of fruit and nut chocolate bars at the supermarket including the new Cadbury More range, Whittakers Peanut Slab, Whittakers fruit and nut bar, Lindt Les Grandes Hazelnut, Lindt Les Grandes White Chocolate Almonds.
• Wellington Chocolate factory Scapegrace gin espresso martini dark
• Wellington Chocolate factory Anzac bar
• Wellington Chocolate factory Matariki Kawakawa dark chocolate bar
• A chat about Oat Milk Chocolate featuring Whittakers new oat bar, Lindt classic vegan smooth, Lindt classic vegan hazelnut, Baron Hasselhoffs Mistress Tahini, Baron Hasselhoffs Rhubarb and Custard bar.
• Baron Hasselhoffs Viva Frida bar
• Bennetto orange with chilli 60%
• Bennetto toasted hazelnut 60%
• Chocolate boxes featuring: Bind luxury assortment, Queen Anne Coffee Creme box, Queen Anne Milk Chocolate selection
• Flint chocolate wild blueberry bar
• Flint chocolate almond butter bar
• Lucid Chocolatier VRAE dark 72%
• Ocho 70% Vanuatu
• Shirl + Moss fig and nib
• Miann chocolate factory almond & Fiji Raki Raki Hot choc mix
• Miann 55% Guatemala
• Miann Valentine bar
• Miann Espresso bar
• Miann Mexico 40% milk chocolate bar
• Raglan Milk 40%
• Raglan Gingernutty
• Foundry Chocolate India 70%
• Foundry Chocolate Mexico 70%
• Foundry Chocolate Peru

Because I focused our craft chocolate for the recording of the family tasting craft chocolate, (in previous podcast episode),  the May chocolate highlights were all about locally bought choccies.
We try out the new Whittakers releases, Relax and Refresh.
We decide who does Chocolate Almonds better in the supermarket range.
We buy  and taste every Donovans chocolate pack we could get our hands on.
We dabble in Tony Chocolonely Chocolate bars.

A  recording of a chocolate tasting, on a girls weekend with my  Cousins and Auntie at Woodlyn Park, Waitomo, New Zealand.  I introduce them to some of my favourite craft chocolate I have found to date.   A real mix of reactions and tastes, but they all agreed afterwards, that craft chocolate was very different to the supermarket chocolate they were used to.

CHOCOLATE TRIED (in order of recording)
Hogarth Walnut  and Maple white chocolate
Raglan Gingernutty
Bennetts Black Doris Plum and Caramilised Hazelnuts
Ocho 48% Milk Chocolate
Baron Hasselhoff Le Breakfast Bar
Wellington Chocolate Factory Ambrosia Bar
Wellington Chocolate Factory Scapegrace Gin Bar
Wellington Chocolate Factory Martini Espresso Dark Bar
Baron Hasselhoffs Drunkin Donuts
Hogarth Peru 66%
Ocho Papua New Guinea 70%
Ocho Beekeeper Bar
Ocho Horopito and Kawakawa Bar

Most Argued  about: WCF Scapegrace Gin Bar

Family favourites were:
Natasha - Baron Hasselhoff's Drunkin Donuts and Raglan Gingernutty
Moana - Hogarth Maple and Walnut and Baron Hasselhoff's Drunkin Donuts
Juanita - Hogarth Peru and all the Ochos
Jade - Hogarth Peru and all the Ochos
Sheran - Baron Hasselhoff's Drunkin Donuts and WCF Ambrosia
Joni - these are all my favourites, but out of these, Hogarth Peru and all the Baron Hasselhoffs