Tea-Infused Chocolate

When I found the tea section, I was a little disappointed to see nothing out of the ordinary – the usual brands of tea that can be found in big name grocery stores. However, I did find some tea-infused chocolate in which I found interesting.

Green Earl Grey Dark Chocolate

The title is self explanatory. The ingredients are 90% organic. When I finally opened the package (it was a little hard to get into) it smelled like chocolate more than anything. I couldn’t smell the tea or bergamot oil at all.

The taste was interesting. It was very rich – made me want to reach for a glass of milk. I tasted the sweet dark chocolate first then the slightly bitter green tea and was left with a mix of bergamot and dark chocolate after the piece melted.

It was like a battle of sweet and bitter and I’m not really sure who won. Since dark chocolate is both bitter and sweet and tea is both bitter and sweet… I know I made a weird combination of facial expressions while tasting the candy – kind of like “What the holy hell did I just put in my mouth?”

Nonetheless, it was rather good. After eating three little squares I have made the conclusion that although it was good, the dark chocolate ends up taking over… I think milk chocolate would have been a better match for this type of tea.

Organic Masala Chai Milk Chocolate

This chocolate bar includes milk chocolate (duh), black tea, cardamom, cinnamon, pepper, and cloves. I could smell the spices and then the milk chocolate as I opened the package. It smelled a lot like pumpkin pie.

The cinnamon was the spice I tasted the most, but the milk chocolate was front and center. The cloves were close behind. It seriously tasted like pumpkin pie in candy bar form. I really liked this one.

The milk chocolate really works with the spices of chai. It was not as rich as the Green Earl Grey Dark Chocolate bar, but it still made me want a glass of milk.

I wish I would have bought more than one bar of this kind (I only bought one of each) but each of these bars was $2.99. The only other tea-infused bar that they had at this particular store was white chocolate infused with chamomile. I am not a fan of white chocolate so I passed on that one.

You can find more information about tea-infused chocolate at The Tea Room.

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