diving into donovans chocolate

Donovans Chocolate Company is based in Hamilton, New Zealand.  They sell a range of different chocolate goodies in New Zealand supermarkets.  We bought the biggest selection we could find at our local shop. Prices were around the $3.50 range.

RASPBERRY LAMINGTON CLUSTERS

Milk Chocolate, 35% Cocoa solids, 30% milk solids, coconut and raspberry jellies.
We liked the combo of the raspberry jellies and coconut.  We couldn't taste the chocolate, only sweetness.

​CHOCOLATE GINGER PIECES

60% Dark Chocolate and crystalized ginger.
Big ginger pieces.  These have a strong ginger hit with a faint chocolate taste.  If you like ginger, these are a gingery sweet mouthful.

TOASTED COCONUT CLUSTERS

30% Toasted coconut, milk chocolate, 35% cocoa solids, 30% milk solids.
Tastes like sweet coconut.  Not much chocolate flavor.  Good sized mouthful.

TURKISH DELIGHT BITES

Milk chocolate, 35% cocoa solids, 30% milk solids, turkish delight jelly.
The turkish delight is a nice bite size and has a nice flavour.  Didn't taste the chocolate.

INDULGENT CARAMEL SQUARES

60% Dark Chocolate with sea salt.
Nice bite size.  A mild taste of everything, toffee caramel, salt and chocolate.  The toffee caramel had a slight vegetable taste to it.  These looked yummier than what they were.

​AFTER DINNER MINT SQUARES

60% dark chocolate and mint fondant.
Slightly toothpasty mint flavour and a mild chocolate taste.  We would have preferred a stronger chocolate flavour and less mint strength.

​HOKEY POKEY CLUSTERS

Milk chocolate, 35% cocoa solids, 30% milk solids, and hokey pokey bits.
These were quite nice.  They were a nice big bite and had a nice hokey pokey texture.

MANUKA HONEYCOMB CHOCOLATE BLOCK 100G

Milk chocolate.
The taste is sweet honey and there is a nice crunch of honey comb.  We do like honey flavours with our chocolate.  There is 2 other bars we couldn't source but would like to try sometime.  A Raspberry and Rose 100g and a Fruity Feijoa.

FINAL THOUGHTS
These chocolates are very affordable.  They offer big sized bite pieces which we liked.  There were also some fun flavours.  On the downside, the chocolate flavour was very mild if it existed at all.  We will definitely be on the lookout for those 2 other bars to try.  Rose and Raspberry sounds really nice.