Now I want a bite! Thanks Hinotori, I'll have to strip till Valentine's Day to pay for that taste!

Dark chocolate is my favorite. In the alarming trend of relating everything, no matter how innocent, to sex... all my lotions have dark chocolate hints of flavor. I don't like my chocolate mixed with anything either. But filled = different story. I present to you:

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Dark chocolate is my favorite as well. Though I don't eat so much chocolate as I used to. Actually I shouldn't eat them at all 'cause they often put peanuts (or other nuts) in chocolate which I'm allergic to.
And also, when I was younger I used to love all the sweet stuff. I still love the sweet stuff but even more than that I like meat, arr!

There's this local chocolatier in Connecticut called Munsons...

Oh god...

OH GOD IT'S SO GOOOOOD!!!!!

Is it wrong for me to not really like Godiva?  I think it tastes too fatty...

Now Munsons, that has a very low fat content & you can taste it!  It's just beautiful...

I have an aunt (or maybe a cousin? I'm not sure how we're related, just that we are) who's like a master chocolatier (sp?). It's crazy. She makes roses and trees and all kinds of stuff when we get together. She made crucifixes for my cousin's confirmation. Totally amazing. A little wrong, perhaps, but amazing.

Giovanna wrote:

No, it's not wrong.

I used to love Godiva but yeah, after a while I moved on to richer chocolates. Even Godiva's bittersweet chocolates are too sweet for me, and they're way overpriced for the quality of the product. I think you're more or less paying for the name on the box with them, especially since they don't make the mandarin truffles anymore.

And three cheers for local chocolate! I think overall the best chocolates I've had, especially when it comes to truffles, are from local stores that are making it themselves in the back.

Actually I really, really want to learn to make truffles and chocolates and such on my own, it's only been shelved because I'm dieting and there'd be no point. It's definitely on my list though.

Actually, Gio, I have a cookbook that is dedicated entirely to recipies having to do with chocolate...

There's cakes, cookies, tortes, chocolate itself, sauces, salsas, dipping things, ice cream, and beautiful illustrations...

I think that once my scanner stops shitting itself I shall have to post it...

God, the pictures in there are like porn to me... (I'm a confessed dessert fetishist)

The chocolate sauces pour smoothly & slowly out of a silver pouring thingy (hell if I know what they're called ), while they shine sensuously against the light in a way that is very similar to PVC & leather... (I'm a mild bondage enthusiast too...)

GAAAH!!!!!!!!!

hyacinth_black wrote:

There's this local chocolatier in Connecticut called Munsons...

Mmmm, Munson's.   I live about 10 minutes away from their flagship store in Bolton!  Always my first choice when I want "the good stuff"

I like Cadbury's a lot when I want something cheaper. I've never actually had the stuff made in Australia or New Zealand and I prefer the stuff from the UK (which I only get once a year really) to the stuff they make in the States. Nothing like the Turkish Delight-filled Dairy Milk. Of course, US-made Cadbury's is better than Hershey's, even though they're owned by the same company... of course, to me ANYTHING is better than Hershey's.

If I want class, I go for Scharffen Berger. Even the milk chocolate is more intense than most dark chocolates manufactured here in the States. And the bittersweets and darks are just so powerful, it's like a chocolate punch in the mouth.