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Title Who Doesn’t Like Chocolate? – Chuao Chocolatiers Review Plus Giveaway

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First there was wine (here) and then there was chocolate!

For those that read my blog daily, probably know all about my affiliation with The Mother Of All Meltdowns’ (MOAM) book having been a contributor to the successful book late last year.

The Mother Of All Meltdowns

The Mother Of All Meltdowns

And for those who can recall a few weeks back, I got to work with Anew Riesling Wines to review their wine for the MOAM Mother’s Day giveaway.

Well, this past week, I got another swoon worthy delivery in the form of chocolate from Chuao Chocolatier, who is the first Venezuelan chocolatier based in the US, as well as Southern California’s premier gourmet chocolate café & boutique. It was founded in 2002 by Chef Michael Antonorsi and his brother Richard, the Chuao Chocolatier is known for creatively blending ethically sourced cacao and the finest all-natural ingredients into gourmet handcrafted chocolate. 

New CHuao Logo

And by the way, what woman doesn’t love chocolate?

Earlier that same day, I joked with Lisa from the Golden Spoons about this when I left her a comment on her Tuesday 10 Linkup Post all about her favorite candies.  And I honestly meant it when I said that I agreed with her daughter Rachel about our shared love of chocolate.

It was like the gods smiled down on me sending me this package ironically right after having admitted my undying affection to chocolate.

And this wasn’t just any chocolate!  No, I was able to sample four different gourmet, premium chocolates from Chuao Chocolatier.

Chuao Chocolate Samples

Chuao Chocolate Samples

The four chocolates were as follows:

  • Firecracker (Sultry sea salt, smoky chipolte and popping candy exploding in dark chocolate)
  • Potato Chip (Crisp kettle cooked potato chips and a hint of sea salt mix and mingle in milk chocolate)
  • Sweet & Salty (A touch of sea salt, swirled in creamy milk chocolate)
  • Pretzel Toffee Twirl (Cruncy mini pretzels and buttery toffee dance in dark chocolate).

Kevin tried the Firecracker, because I admit I am not a huge fan of anything spicy or hot.  He absolutely loved it and ended up being his chocolate bar for the most part.

The girls tried the other three with me and I have to admit the Sweet & Salty was pretty good, but was nothing compared to the Potato Chip and The Pretzel Toffee Twirl, which we devoured and seriously couldn’t stop eating.

My girls are definitely following in mom’s footsteps with their love of all things chocolate!

How could we not love these chocolates though with them being an award-winning artisan chocolate company known for creative, culinary driven flavors?

See Chuao Chocolatiers were awarded the Silver Medal for its Rosemary Salt Caramel Bonbon in the milk chocolate caramels category at the 2013 International Chocolate Awards in London. The company also received Silver awards for its dark chocolate Salted Chocolate Crunch and Spicy Maya bars and its milk chocolate Pop Corn Pop bar during the competition’s North American judging. 

As you can tell, you cannot go wrong with this chocolate and even those in the know will agree that this chocolate is one of the best in its category having indeed won accolades for their differing varieties of chocolates.

My family and I couldn’t agree more and want to say a huge thank to Chuao Chocolatiers for allowing us to sample some of your world famous chocolate and also hope that all my readers will head over to their website to take a better look at this chocolate and all their different candy bar flavor options, too now.

And last, but not least, I was humbly interviewed by Bev at Linkouture and being featuring today about my contribution to The Mother of All Meltdowns, please click here to read more now.

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About Janine

Janine is a published author of the books, The Mother of All Meltdowns and Only Trollops Shave Above the Knee. She has been featured on The Huffington Post, Mamapedia, Today Parenting Team and SheKnows. She also runs her own graphic design company at J9 Designs.

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    • Janine Huldie says

      Robin, I am so with you not he chocolate. And I like I said we pretty much went to town on them. Just so glad they are all but gone though, because the extra calories were so bad on my part, but totally well enjoyed though, too!! 🙂

  2. April (@100LBC) says

    Sounds absolutely delicious! The flavors ate different. Sweet and salty all the way. Yum!

  3. kathyradigan says

    Wow first wine now chocolate!! You are living the high life!! Lol! These sound great!! You have a very, very, hard job!! xoxoxo

    • Janine Huldie says

      Lol, Kathy, I know I lead a terribly hard life!! Seriously though my dream just about came true from both of these reviews. Yes, I am spoiled rotten 🙂

  5. Billybuc says

    What woman doesn't like chocolate, and I ask the same question about men? It is one of my major food groups. 🙂

    Have a great week, Janine!

  8. theseanamethod says

    Chocolate is pretty much a food group in my house (which is mostly girls… hmmmm). I think I'm on board with the salty options. Going to look into these. They would make great birthday gifts for my lady friends too:)
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    • Janine Huldie says

      Seana, as I said to Bill and will totally agree with you, chocolate is most certainly a food group here. Mostly girls here inout house, too, but still my husband loves his fair share of chocolate as well, so we don't discriminate one bit on that. Hope you do check them out and seriously was so happy to share 🙂

    • Janine Huldie says

      Sorry, Brittnei, but the chocolate company is one of the sponsors for the big giveaway with The Mother of All Meltdowns so that is the giveaway that is attached here.

  11. tamaralikecamera says

    I'm so upset I didn't jump on this to get my own to review! I'm the chocolate queen of the world! Well, maybe just of western MA. I am most intrigued by the toffee/pretzel one but I'd love them all.
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    • Janine Huldie says

      Tamara, I was so happy that I did jump on this and the pretzel-toffee one was absolutely delicious!! 🙂

    • Janine Huldie says

      That granola is very good too and have had it myself it myself in the past. So not a bad snack at all 😉

  15. gigigirl says

    Sweet and salty in chocolate! Heaven! I'll have to check out these chocolates…..they sound very special. Yum…..xxoo

  16. themomcafe says

    Why oh why didn't I get on the BALL and get me some of this to try!! That looks SO good right about now… I want the pretzel toffee chocolate combo please…? Gone? GONE? I will hint to Derek for Mother's day. Yeah- THAT'S what I'll do!

    Those would be the perfect teacher gift!!
    My recent post Then I Became A Mother

    • Janine Huldie says

      Chris, I must admit it is all but gone. Seriously in this house, I am surprised it lasted as long as it did! Seriously though you might be onto something with the teacher gifts though and will have to look into it as the year comes to a close in the next two months 🙂

    • Janine Huldie says

      You, long gone here and I must confess I ate the potato chip one pretty much all on my own. I shared the others, but potato chips are my weakness for sure 🙂

    • Janine Huldie says

      Totally my pleasure Crystal and I keep hearing about honeycomb and may need to see if I get my hands on that one soon. But seriously huge thank you and was my pleasure to get to try these and review here 🙂

  24. stephrufa says

    I just read Crystal's comment…honeycomb? That sounds good, too. I got my chocolate last week and won't let my kids touch it yet – everyday they ask…when are we going to eat the chocolate?? I got the same flavors as you and I can hardly wait to try it.
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    • Janine Huldie says

      I can’t wait to hear what you think of the chocolate and I may have eaten a whole candy bar during our power outage last week, lol!! 😉

    • Janine Huldie says

      I know I couldn’t have been happier then if I would hit the powerball, lol!! 😉

  27. Woods of Bell Trees says

    Oh how funny, I was thinking about doing a Chuao shout out in a post soon! I love their chocolate soooo much! I like the popcorn one the most! I thought I would hate the pop rocks in chocolate but it's surprisingly very cool and tasty! 😀

    • Janine Huldie says

      I haven’t tried the popcorn yet, but now after reading your comment totally want to 🙂

  28. tikilon says

    You had me at chocolate! LOL
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