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We were very excited to discover a new chocolate maker for us in New Zealand: Wonderland Chocolate. Wonderland Chocolate is based in Lyall Bay, Wellington. They create bean to bar plant based milk chocolate goodies. They use Uncommon Cacao, transperant trade beans for their chocolate. The bars we bought are milk chocolate made with cashew milk. We loved the packaging artwork.  ROCKET MAN ROY SMOOTH CASHEW MILK CHOCOLATE 50% cocoa solids from the Dominican Republic. The chocolate is very smooth and melty. It has a nice strong chocolate flavour for a milk chocolate. There is a mild nut flavour to it and some wood and vanilla notes. It has a nice sweetness that is not overly done. This is one of the nicest plant based milk chocolate we have tasted and is definitely going onto our 'Favourites' page.
 STAN THE STRONGMAN STRAWBERRY & CHAMPAGNE The same cashew milk chocolate with 49% cacao. The cocoa beans have been soaked in Champagne and the chocolate bar has a scattering of dried strawberries. The champagne and strawberries weren't distinct flavors, but together they added tang and berry fruit flavor notes to the wood, musk, vanilla notes of the chocolate.
RONNIE & RITA HAZELNUT PLUM The cashew milk chocolate this time is 44% with hazelnuts and a scattering of dried Black Doris Plum. That same yummy wood, musk, vanilla chocolate notes, combined with some definite hazelnut flavours with a hint of plum. This was a dessert like combo for us.
We really liked this cashew milk chocolate. Can't wait to try more from Wonderland Chocolate.
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There was a clearance on some fairtrade chocolate at our local Countdown. We had never tried the Dark Passionfruit before, so we grabbed it.
55% Organic Fairtrade chocolate. Cacao from Dominican Republic, Peru and Paraguay. Ingredients also includes 4% freeze dried passionfruit.
The freeze dried passionfruit is nice and tangy and goes well with dark chocolate flavours. The dark chocolate flavours are there, but hard to pick out different flavour notes through the passionfruit. The passionfruit was too strong for Johanan, but Joni liked it. Another bar we picked up from Capers Cafe in Rotorua, was Ocho Peppermint Crunch. This was just a limited release. Made with 49% single origin cacao from the Pacific Islands, it also includes bits of hard peppermint candy.
The peppermint bits are really crunchy. We sucked on this chocolate rather than chew it. The chocolate was slightly fruity in flavour. It was great we could taste both the chocolate and the peppermint and that the peppermint didn't overpower the chocolate. We think Ocho did a great job of balancing the flavours here.
We always enjoy Ocho creations. They offer flavours just a bit different from the norm. This is another find from the Rotorua Capers Cafe. Bennetto Natural foods Company, Pistachios in 60% dark chocolate. The cacao is from Samoa. The other ingredients include: 15% Pistachios, sea salt, vanilla beans and cane sugar. This bar is vegan and fairtrade.
The chocolate was smooth and melty. You could taste the pistachios and a pinch of salt. There was flavours of vanilla and wood with a hint of pepper. Everything seemed nice and complimentary. We liked it.
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