Author Archive: Bryn Kirk

Special K Chocolate Coconut Cashew Bar

Today I decided to try the Special K Nourish® Chewy Nut Bar. I grabbed the new Chocolate Coconut Cashew flavor.

First and foremost, this bar is sweet and chewy. When you pull it apart, there are long, gooey strings of what I’m guessing is mostly corn syrup. It reminds me of thin, soft caramel strands but not the color of caramel. This is more whitish or even translucent.

The peanuts, cashews, and coconut really stand out with their strong nutty and coconut notes. The dark chocolate coating, on the bottom of the bar, along with the chocolate chips wrap your taste buds in chocolatey flavor, too.

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Kind Healthy Grains – Popped Dark Chocolate

These Kind Healthy Grains granola bars are certainly different. They contain some grains you don’t normally see in the mainstream granola snack world. For example, they have sorghum, millet, amaranth, quinoa, and buckwheat.

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Lakefront Brewery Double Chocolate Stout

Everything I’ve read about the craft beer boom in Milwaukee intrigues me. I’ve lived in the area since graduating from college. At that time, all I knew (and everyone else in the United States) was Milwaukee meant Miller. Boy have things changed! Craft breweries have been popping up fast over the past couple of years.

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Thindulgent Dark Chocolate Pistachio Toffee Bark

From the makers of Sheila G’s Brownie Brittle™, comes another snacking chocolate called Thindulgent™ Dark Chocolate Bark.

It’s made in a variety of flavors: Milk Chocolate Cashew Toffee, Dark Chocolate Pistachio Toffee, Milk Chocolate S’mores, Milk Chocolate Caramel Pretzel, and Dark Chocolate Almond Sea Salt.

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Moser Roth 70% Dark Chocolate

Here’s another chocolate from Moser Roth brand out of Germany. Locally, I buy it at my Aldi store.

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Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Cashew

If you consider chocolate-coated peanuts to be a chocolate classic you’re not alone. They’ve been around a long time in chocolate shops and supermarkets.

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World Market Dark Chocolate Revisited

From time to time, I give a poor review of a specific chocolate. The reasons can vary, but in the end, it’s because my experience is less than satisfactory.

Sometimes, my taste buds are telling me one thing, while the tasting description offered by the manufacturer tells me something completely different. My expectations are high, the delivery is low.

But I believe in second chances.

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Brownie Bites Wrapped in Bacon

Everything tastes better with bacon!

A local bar & grill in my town has a bacon theme. They implemented the idea of serving all you can eat bacon, for free, during happy hour.

Their food menu serves only dishes with bacon. They offer usual items like bacon topped burgers and bacon wrapped water chestnuts, but there are also some surprises...

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Secret Chocolate Reveal – My Confession

For all my chocolate snobbery, I have a secret guilty pleasure that I try to keep to myself...

I try to act nonchalant around the candy dish at work, pretending to resist. And then, once nobody’s looking, I grab a handful. Darn those co-workers who bring in these tantalizing treats calling my name!

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Alter Eco DARK BLACKOUT

Alter Eco’s Dark Blackout is a single source Ecuadorian, 85% cacao masterpiece of chocolate.

Everything they say about this chocolate bar on the wrapper and on their website is absolutely true. When they say it’s deeply fruity and intense, it is.

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