Raw Archives
Here are all the posts on Chocablog tagged with the term Raw.
Forever Cacao 80% Raw Peru
An 80% Welsh bean-to-bar chocolate.
iQ Chocolate Bean to Bar Superfood
A raw bean to bar creation from Scotland.
The Chocolate Tree Madagascar Bars
Raw & Roasted bars from The Chocolate Tree.
Zorba’s Chocolate Truffles
Raw chocolate truffles from Oregon.
Zorba’s Raw Chocolate Bars
Flavoured raw chocolate bars from Zorba's.
Zorba’s Spiced Chocolate Almonds
Almonds covered in raw chocolate.
Buddha Chocolate Cup And Crystal Salt Bar
A raw, organic take on the peanut butter cup.
Pacari Raw 70% With Salt & Nibs
A wonderful raw chocolate from Ecaudor.
Olivia Chocolat Artisan 86%
An organic bean-to-bar dark chocolate from Canadian chocolate maker Olivia.
Chocolution Mayan Magic Raw Chocolate Making Kit
The idea is simple, you’re given some cocoa solids and some natural sweetener, you melt them all together and you make your own raw chocolates.
Nakd Cocoa Bars
We all know that chocolate is good for you (it’s only when you start adding sugar and milk powder that things go downhill), but there do seem to be more and more health foods using chocolate as an ingredient lately. …
Booja-Booja Raspberry Truffles
Booja-Booja sent this little box after company founder Colin Mace found Simon’s review of their Flambéd Banana Truffles and got in touch to say how much he liked our little blog. Never one to miss an opportunity, I managed to …
Love Street Living Foods
Out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania comes Love Street Living Foods, who sells organic, raw, and vegan food products. No fine print here beneath the stated values; Love Street means serious business. No genetically modified ingredients, no refined sugars or flour, no …
Mood Foods OmBar Probiotic Range
Here we have another three Mood Foods OmBars, only this time they come with a little something extra, namely probiotic bacteria (the same stuff in those yoghurt drinks they sell in supermarkets and health food stores). As you can see, …
Mood Foods OmBar Fruit Bars
Mood foods have redesigned, rebranded and re-invented their range of Ombars, one of which I reviewed last year. The 2010 models are completely different though, with the cocoa content up to 60%, and a new sweetening agent in the mix. …
Rawr Chocolate Eggs
We’ve reviewed a few raw chocolate products in the past, but this is the first Easter-themed raw chocolate I’ve seen. Raw chocolate, if you don’t know, is chocolate that hasn’t been heat treated, has had minimal processing and is made …
Choc Chick Taster Kit
Here’s something a little different – a do it yourself raw chocolate making kit. These Choc Chick kits contain just three ingredients – raw cocoa powder, ‘extra virgin’ raw Cocoa Butter, and Agave Syrup – and a handy little recipe …
Mood Foods Açai & Blueberry OmBar
Another raw chocolate bar, this time from Mood Foods in Cambridge. The wrapper is a bit battered because I had it stashed in the glove box of my car and only discovered it the other day. This one is packed …
Loving Earth Selection
Having reviewed the Loving Earth Raw Organic Lucuma and Maca chocolate block previously, I was intrigued to try their smaller, 40 gram bars of raw chocolate, especially when their blurb tells me that this has up to four times as …
Loving Earth Raw Organic Chocolate
Loving Earth is a Melbourne-based company that makes chocolate from the highest quality organic ingredients they have literally found and brought back from their community development work and sojourns around the world. They buy their cacao from an indigenous community …
Roar Signature 81%
I found this bar in a shop selling Native American arts and crafts, making it yet another in a long list of unusual discoveries. It turns out to have been made in Brighton by someone calling himself The Chocolate Saucerer …
Conscious Berry, Cherry, Merry Christmas
As mentioned in my review of the coffee bar, Conscious Chocolate have produced three new bars especially for Christmas – Berry, Cherry and Merry Christmas. Berry Christmas As one might expect from the name, Berry Christmas comes loaded with three …
Conscious Chocolate Choca Mocha Magic
Earlier this year when I emailed Emma at Conscious to tell her she’d won a Chocster, her reply mentioned a range of new flavours she was working on. Since I enjoyed her previous ten bars so much I naturally (and …
Mulu Raw Chocolate
Here’s another company producing raw chocolate using low temperature production and chemical-free cocoa and Agave syrup. Their production methods are similar to those of the two Emmas (‘Conscious‘ Emma and ‘Pure‘ Emma), so I was expecting something similar in the …
Pure Flavour Fruit and Nut Raw Chocolate
This is the sister bar to the Raw Dark Chocolate I recently reviewed. A comparison to Conscious Chocolate’s bars is not unfounded. In a similar vein, Pure Flavour have obviously found their ideal formula on which to base their range, …
Pure Flavour Plain Raw Chocolate
Pure Flavour make a similar sort of chocolate to our Chocster-winning friend Emma Jackman from Conscious Chocolate, and oddly enough it was another Emma who sent me a couple of bars to review. Spooky huh? The ingredients are remarkably similar …
Conscious Chocolate Finale
Conscious Chocolate Best Ever Hint of Mint The ninth to be sampled in the Conscious Chocolate range and one I find myself liking rather a lot. Using organic peppermint essence in the dark chocolate base gives this bar a refreshing …
Conscious Chocolate – The Fruity & Flowery Ones
Continuing my comprehensive review of the entire Conscious Chocolate range, we reach bars number seven and eight. First up, ‘Love Potion Number 9’ – the only chocolate bar I can think of that has been named after a classic 60’s …
Conscious Chocolate – The Citrus Pair
Time to review another brace of wholesome raw chocolate bars, courtesy of Emma at Conscious Chocolate. This time I chose a couple of fruity little numbers, namely the Best Ever Citrus Zest bar and the Best Ever Essential Orange bar. …
Conscious Chocolate – The Hot Stuff
As I have ten Conscious Chocolate bars to get through (I know, poor old me) I thought it might be fair to group them for ease of reviewing and to save space on the site. This first pair are the …
Conscious Chocolate ‘Love Your Heart Superfood’ Bar
Conscious Chocolate is a young company producing a raw, healthy chocolate bars that can be eaten by anyone, regardless of dietary requirements. They produce handmade bars using organically certified Fairtrade ingredients, and the handmade touch extends to the packaging – …
Conscious Chocolate – Best Ever Plain
I seem to have reached the point where friends and colleagues have started to recommend chocolate to me. Take this bar, for example. I have a friend who has been trying to follow a healthier diet, and so he’s been …