Some of you have probably seen Christopher elbow's artisan chocolate from cocoa bella stores. last wednesday night, there was a hot chocolate taste event @ cocoa bella union st. store. this is a sort of new product line introduction event from Christopher elbow.
at the event he introduced 5 flavors: coconut curry, passion fruit, cacao noir, citrus, venezuelan spice. cacao noir tastes mostly pure dark chocolate (it comes from 73% dark chocolate bars), however, it has more sweeter side than pure dark chocolate bars...passion fruit has fruity, but more strong dark chocolate taste...coconut curry was the most interesting one. it really has savory, curry taste....my favorite was the venezuelan spice! christopher said this flavor is probably the very similar the way mayan culture drinked hot chocolates....it blended with 2 chillies and 6 spices together...fabulous! i didn't have a chance to taste citrus, however, i am sure that it would be wonderful considering citrus is one of flavors present in cacao fruit.....
i asked him how he comes up with new flavors...he said he tries out a lot of different flavors and spices...especially he loves trying out spices with chocolate....no wonder he introduced coconut curry and venezuelan spice...
christopher said he has a plan to introduce about 15 new hot chocolate flavors. currently there are 2 flavors available at the stores, cacao noir and chocolate spiced, which is venezuelan spice...he also said he will open hot chocolate drinking cafe around this summer in SF..good news for chocolate lovers....it will be the most delicious summer =)
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