If I had a dollar for everything I had to organise, complete, fill out, sign, move, pack, compile, pay for, buy, sell, and overall simply get done in the next two weeks, then I’d have enough dollars that I’d remember to add “buy new wallet” to my to-do list because my current one is falling apart.
For every item I strike off my to-do list, it seems another three get added. It’s like I accidentally created a to-do list with the reproductive powers of a rabbit. Or perhaps two rabbits, because one rabbit can’t very well spawn on its own.
But that’s enough about spawning. Let’s talk chocolate.
Theo Toasted Coconut Dark Chocolate
When A.DazzlingLady handed me a bundle of chocolate bars from America last weekend, my heart whirled to see that every flavour was both new and exciting to me. She’s a clever one, that A.DazzlingLady. I’ve previously adored many of Theo’s chocolates, and so felt confident I could trust this vegan 70% Dark Chocolate with Toasted Coconut to be tasty.
Made with organic and fair trade cocoa beans, sugar, toasted coconut, cocoa butter, and ground vanilla bean, Theo’s Dark Chocolate with Toasted Coconut block was indeed tasty. The aroma was like chocolate fudge sauce and brownies, the coconut was crispy and true-tasting, and the chocolate had tangy raspberry and red currant notes.
(As an aside, I liked Theo’s dark chocolate coconut block far more than Lindt’s version, which used a piddly 47% cacao content and fake coconut flavouring.)
Schoc Chocolates Frankincense Myrrh Gold
First and foremost, I apologise for the blurry photos in this section, which were taken last year with my old broken camera. Second and secondmost, thank you to my wonderful friend Helen for generously bringing this Schoc Chocolate to me all the way from New Zealand. Hurrah for Helen!
It’s not every day I get to eat chocolate covered in 23 carat gold leaf. It’s also not every day I get to eat chocolate flavoured with frankincense and myrrh. In fact, I previously had no idea what frankincense or myrrh tasted like.
Actually, I still couldn’t say exactly what frankincense and myrrh taste like. But I think they’re both delicious.
Nibbling on this Schoc Chocolate with frankincense, myrrh, and gold leaf confused my mind. The chocolate was sweet and floral, but also had notes of honey, ash, roses, and vanilla as well as ebbing undercurrents of swirling mysterious flavours that I simply couldn’t grasp for long enough to put a name to.
But I think they were delicious.
Haigh’s Premium Fruit and Nut Dark Block
When I was in Adelaide last year for my work conference, I picked up this block of Haigh’s Dark Chocolate with seven fruits, nuts, and seeds. A far cry from your bog-standard raisin and hazelnut fruit and nut block, Haigh’s Chocolates throws pistachios, pecans, apricots, cranberries, goji berries, sunflower seeds, and pepitas into the mix.
The chocolate itself wasn’t anything particularly memorable, being mostly sweet-sweet with hints of vanilla-sweet and caster-sugar-sweet. However, the fruits and nuts liberally studded like jewels throughout the dark chocolate were fresh and lovely, with the apricots, cranberries, and goji berries all contributing their respective tangy, tart, and near-savoury fruity flavours, and the sunflower seeds, pepitas, pecans, and pistachios offering up crisp buttery textural fun.
Three bars down, four hundred and thirty seven thousand three to go on my chocolate to-do list. Does anyone have some dollars for me?
Wow, I’ve never heard of the goldy-perfumey chocolate from NZ – sounds pretty amazing.
I find Haighs choc SO SO SWEET, but it does look like a pretty jam-packed fruit+ nut variety…. nothing worse than stingyness with the fruit and nut.
Good luck with all the organising/packing/doing stuff…. it’ll be worth it when you’re heel clicking in NYC!
My mantra right now is “It will get done because it has to get done. It will get done because it has to get done.” NYC!
Oh my GOD does that ever look good!
My first thought was, “Is that pistachios in there?” and then, finding out it was….. my involuntary drool glands kicked in….
Pistachios are the most magical of all the nuts. At least, they’re my favourite right now.
I like the look of all three chocolates! The Schoc one looks most interesting, with very pretty-sounding flavours.
I wouldn’t mind a piece of the first chocolate. Mmmm coconuts!
sure sure, I bet you eat chocolate covered in gold every day!!
I’m also dressed by birds every morning.
Ohhh i like all the chocolates
especially the one with toasted coconut and gold leaves hehe
WOW 2 weeks left?!?! I’m SO SO SO excited for you!!!
My excitement has been swallowed up by stress and panic, so thank you!!
2 weeks? Oh, how amazing!
The idea of frankincense and myrrh in chocolate is impressive indeed…that first coconut one is also impressive and could give Lindt a lesson in how to make dark chocolate dark. Humph. Splendid selection and reviews, as always
I’m drowning in crucial paperwork and chocolate. HELP!
Good luck with organizing and packing and getting ready to leave! It’s so soon!
That gold, frankincense and myrrh chocolate is so cool- it’ like Christmas in a bar!
Thank you Gabby, I need all the luck I can get!
How on earth did you keep from posting about a gold leaf-studded chocolate bar for so long?!? That would have popped to the top of my list of “I must tell everyone I’ve ever met plus all those creepy people that follow me without ever commenting. And I must do it NOW.” What wild flavors to boot.
I see one of A.DazzlingLady’s chocolates saw the light of day (the internet) very quickly. When you are (A.) Dazzling Lady, special privileges come along with that. And good for her, cause that Theo block is quite tasty:)
I had some vague intention of researching what frankincense and myrrh are supposed to taste like, and writing a more comprehensive review, but OH HEAVENS ALL THE THINGS ALL THE THINGS MY MIND IS MELTING.
A.DazzlingLady deserves all the light of the days, yep yep.
Ooo! Frankincense and myrrh with gold leaf is undeniably the most interesting chocolate flavor I’ve ever heard of. Somehow, it sounds incredible. I imagine the smoky, earthy flavors of pu-erh tea.
I’m fairly certain that the way I pronounce “pu-erh” in my mind is not at all how it should be pronounced, but it makes me giggle, so all is well.
Um…I only JUST unpacked a box of stuff from my travels, and it’s been a week since I’ve been back. LOL. Talk about a dollar for organizing! I’ll take plenty of dollars, too!
That fruit and nut bark is just SO pretty! Look at that chock full of green!
This week, I took a box of books back to my parents’ place that I failed to unpack in my own room for nine months. I think I win.
Ooh, I’d love to try a chocolate bar sprinkled in gold leaves. It looks and sounds delicious!
Gold chocolate? Now THAT is classy
I love Haigh’s chocolate too! I actually worked at the Sydney store for work experience last year and they had this policy: While packaging chocolate, eat whatever you want
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Alas, I don’t love Haigh’s chocolate, so you can have my share.
oh… classy! gold leaf chocolate. you will conquer all the chocolate one day!
One day. But first, I need to conquer suffocating paperwork.
More chocolate reviews yayy! I love looking at your chocolate reviews, coconut sounds awesome! And wowwwww gold covered chocolate! That’s so fancypants!
Thank you for this comment!! I have about a bazillion chocolate reviews coming up, and I fear boring everyone!
Your list sounds overwhelming. I’m sure you’ll get to the end of it soon! Shame on Lindt for adding artificial flavours. That first vegan chocolate from the USA sounds like my pick. I love chocolate and coconut – great mix xx
That Theo one is like a classy Golden Rough.
Oh heavens, I can’t cope with this list. I’m drowning!
I have some frankincense in my bag at the moment. In some countries, they eat it like chewing gum! It’s quite fresh and reminds me of vietnamese mint and lavender
Ooooh, really? I wish I had more of this so I could taste it again with those flavours in mind!
How wonderful to have on your to do list that you need to eat chocolate! I want a to do list like that! All chocolates sound wonderful. The coconut chocolate sounds like my kinds of thing and I love that you have had to eat chocolate and gold to get through your to do ist – things you do!
It’s a hard life, I’ll tell you that.
You know you’re getting into some fancy shit when the chocolate you eat has GOLD FLECKS in it.
I feel that once you have reached such heights as gold flecked chocolate, you are entitled to not give a damn about paperwork anymore
Oh how I wish the Australian and Canadian and American governments felt the same way as you!
Gah! Scoh Choc has an outlet in Queenstown! They have some fantastic looking flavour combos to try too, I do believe I’ll have to pop in for a look-see.
You have your passport? You have your ticket? You have your accommodation in NYC? Everything else will start to seem very unimportant soon …
I have those three things, yes, and as of this morning I also have travel insurance. That part has been a major headache but I’ve simply had to accept the only option on offer. You’re right, soon all the bureaucratic mess will be behind me!
you seem to like chocolate as much as I do! i had this one bar a while ago that I bought at trader joes – dark chocolate with sea salt, filled with caramel. it was bonkers
i’m very interested in that coconut bar!
I totally just ate that exact Trader Joe’s chocolate. Review coming up.
Glad you gave the Haigh’s another try…and found one that you didn’t hate
That Schoc chocolate sounds fascinating!
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
If you sold off your chocolate stash you might make some money. :p
Darn my lack of business acumen! I’ve just been eating a few squares of each for reviewing purposes and then giving the rest away to family and friends!
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Hurrah a chocolate worthy of kings! And queens! And daikon-wielding women of awesome
When you come to Canada, we can wield all of its daikon too. (See what I did there?)
Golden chocolate…. I have now seen it all. It’s certainly lovely, but I’m not sure I could really justify eating a precious metal like that.
It’s easier to justify once you’ve left it so long that it’s past the best-before date.
It all looks so yummy! I came across Theo before and I really wanted to try it, until I read the allergen information.
Sadly, most of the chocolate I find I can’t try even if it is dark without any dairy just because it was made in a facility that also produces wheat. Pesky gluten! I hope you enjoyed it for me, too! 
Oh golly, that’s such a shame! I didn’t realise your sensitivity was that heightened. Sadface for you
Unfortunately.
But, as long as you enjoyed it, I know it’s good and that someone out there is happy for it. 