Seattle Chocolates Ranier Cherry Dark Chocolate Truffle Bar Review

I found the Seattle Chocolates Ranier Cherry Dark Chocolate Truffle Bar at my local specialty chocolate store and was particularly excited to give it a try. One of my favorite uses of chocolate, particularly dark chocolate is as a coating on fruits or nuts and as soon as I spied the words “Ranier Cherry” on the beautiful wrapper I was sold on giving it a try. Priced just under $4 this bar is quite a deal for the sheer thickness of the chocolate itself as well as the size of each individual piece (because we all know that the bigger the piece the more chocolate we’re getting, right?)

The Chocolate: Seattle Chocolates Ranier Cherry Dark Chocolate Truffle Bar
Type of Chocolate: Dark Chocolate Truffle
Cocoa Content: 53%
Best Eaten With: Dried Cherries
Price: $3.79

Made with the finest European chocolate and all natural flavorings Seattle Chocolate bars can sell you on their packaging alone. Bright colors and sumptuous names call to you from store shelves and you just can’t help yourself from giving them a try.

Taste:

The Seattle Chocolates Ranier Cherry Dark Chocolate Truffle Bar features praline pecans and cherries covered in a thick dark chocolate. The chocolate itself, while not in particularly thick pieces has a thick and creamy feel to it. There is certainly something about Seattle chocolate that stands out from the refined sugar filled chocolate that many of us are used to and it’s not just that beautiful packaging!

Upon opening the packet of chocolate the smell is a subtle and earthy smell; however, biting in to one of the large sized pieces of chocolate breaks open an unusually milky texture with a good balance of the bitterness expected from a dark chocolate. By no means does this delicious mixture of European chocolate resemble the harsh acidity of commercially produced darks, instead this smooth and lightly bitter chocolate is punctuated with crunchy praline pecans and a subtle cherry afterglow. When biting in to any chocolate touting fruit content it is natural to expect large, or even petite chunks of the fruit itself; however with the Seattle Chocolates Ranier Cherry Dark Chocolate Truffle Bar the cherry taste does not present until you are reflecting on the lingering aftertaste.

The after taste of this bar, as stated above, is fruity with very little sickly sweetness; however, it is a slightly sticky and creamy aftertaste which in my opinion would be lessened in paring this chocolate with a fruit be it dried cherries to compliment the chocolate flavor or something a little more tart to cleanse the palate.

Ingredients:

The ingredients in the Seattle Chocolates Ranier Cherry Dark Chocolate Truffle Bar include: 53% cacao dark chocolate (chocolate liquor, sugar, cocoa butter, butter oil, soya lecithin, pure vanilla), non-hydrogenated coconut oil and/or palm kernal oil, glazed pecans (pecans, sugar, corn syrup, salt, cottonseed oil, soya lecithin), dried cherries (cherries, sugar, sunflower oil).

The Bottom Line:

While this chocolate may have a significant list of ingredients (of which every single one is listed), all of them are all natural which particularly appeals to me. The taste of the chocolate itself stuns me with the delicious aftertaste of cherries rather than the sharp cherry blast that I had expected upon biting in to each piece. From the wrapping to the quality of chocolate and uniqueness of flavor I have to say that I enjoyed this chocolate immensely and were I to change one aspect I would suggest making this in to a solid chocolate bar, removing some of the stickiness in removing the truffle aspect.

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