American Chocolatiers
Last Summer my husband and I actually made a trip to San Francisco, chocolate capital of the country. We also spent an entire day driving around visiting as many chocolate shops as possible and there are a lot! We even had the pleasure of visiting CocoaBella which is where the above box came from. This lovely company hit big with its genius plan to sell all of the best chocolates, with out ever having to do any of the dirty work. But that takes all the fun out of it, doesn’t it?! The CocoaBella web site is friendly and full of blue, also including a much needed Build-a-box feature for their large variety of chocolates.
I’ve taken notice of them more so lately with the addition of a few of my favorite Chocolatier’s, all of which are included in the above compilation box. Exciting right? So I quickly ordered it and awaited its arrival. Good thing they use the same great temperature controlled shipping cartons we do because FedEx left this alluring package on my doorstep to melt. (This is also why we include signature conformation in our shipping to avoid this situation.) Luckily, I returned home in time for un-melted chocolates.
I tore into the box instantly only to scarf a Norman Love piece of course, he being my favorite Chocolatier. Only to be saddened upon the discovery that, that was the only one. Mint Chocolate Chip. I had given the duplicate to a child in my company thinking it was the best flavor for her taste buds. Sharing is caring, I always say. From the beginning of my quest to be a successful Chocolatier, Norman Love chocolates inspired me, above all others and still do to this day.
Runner up goes to Christoper Elbow and the only other piece in this box I thoroughly enjoyed, Lemon. I rarely like white chocolates period, yet oddly enough my two favorites were all or partly made of white chocolate. Well done boys!
Unfortunately I believed the rest of the compilation to be sub-par and unworthy of mention, turned off by funky textures or over bearing flavors. Duplicates of which still sit in the my box untouched. Maybe I can pawn them off on a friend and they can tell me that mine are better, that’s what friends are for!