Godiva Desires

Hello, chocolateers!

I'm currently still pacing myself in eating a group of four assorted truffles. So far, I've tried two and plan on publishing my reviews and rates all at once in the near future, so keep an eye out for those!

Are you all as excited as I am to try the new Cake Truffles?!

The new truffles in the collection are Birthday Cake, Cookie Dough, Butterscotch Walnut Brownie and Pineapple Hummingbird. I've never heard of the last two flavors as cakes. I listed them in order of my preference based on names alone. I love cake batter flavored things and birthday cakes, so I think a birthday cake truffle would be the perfect epitome for a cake truffles collection! Cookie dough has been my favorite guilty pleasure for as long as I can remember. Brownies are irresistible and pineapple is yummy. Overall, I'm hoping on getting an 8 pc. Gift Box soon! I think it'd be cool to get two of each so I can try it and decide if I like it enough to have another or not.

My second desire is the Pumpkin Cheesecake Truffle. I love pumpkin flavors in fall-related foods and, as I've previously mentioned, I love cheesecakes. I think this is a new truffle, so I'm really excited to try it!

The Pumpkin Patch truffles are also making a return along with all the little halloween/fall/Thanksgiving decorated things this year. I love this time of year. Autumn is my favorite season, and the chocolates that Godiva produces around this time always make me even more excited. Can't wait until I can make a stop soon!(:

Sweeties Fine Chocolate

Today, I went to Sweeties Fine Chocolate in Northampton, MA. I used to go to this place as a kid and has always held dear memories. Although the store isn't extremely large or versatile, it's classic and friendly. It has many selections of hard candy and gummies that you can weigh in a bag and eat, and an assortment of other more common and individually sold candy like Pop Rocks and chocolate gold coins. But, they also have truffles and dipped chips and pretzels and many chocolate goods!

Here's an overview of all the chocolates. I got five, but only four flavors.

 I don't remember the name of this one, but it has layers of chocolate (I think it was simply called layers of chocolate or something along those lines) and it has two layers of milk chocolate and one layer of some other chocolate that has a touch of nuts. I can't tell if it's almonds or what but it's good! I also can't tell if it's salted, or if it's the salt from the salted caramel that accidentally got on it.

 The one that's sort of already been eaten is a salted caramel chocolate. A little hard since it just came from my fridge, but the salt balanced the caramel really nicely!

That one there is definitely filled with almond something. It's not quite a ganache like in the Godiva truffles, but it's delicious. Probably my favorite truffle of the batch.

Then I got two tiramisu chocolates. The coffee taste is really pronounced but it's good nonetheless. The coffee aftertaste is really strong. I got two because I knew I'd like it, and I do(:

Tiramisu

When I visited Godiva, I took a picture with my iPod Touch of this cute display they had to advertise the Godiva Tropical Seashells. I loved the look of the sand and the shells and it really did make me want to buy the set. I didn't, regretfully. But, I loved how they presented the collection.

Recently I've fallen in love with tiramisu. It tastes amazing. 

I remember in this post that I wrote about two years ago, I had yet to try tiramisu. I forget when I first tried it, but I've been hooked ever since! This I get from my local grocery store for a good price and its about 5 inches by 5 inches and layers of deliciousness. A subtle taste of coffee and a nice balance with chocolate and their layer of frosting or something on top is to die for. My most recent chocolate endeavor and highly recommended buy: TIRAMISU!

Godiva Truffle Bars: Mint Chocolate Chip in Dark Chocolate

Godiva Truffle Bars: Mint Chocolate Chip in Dark Chocolate
230 calories total, about 57 calories per square (in case you need the nutrition)


This is a 1.4 oz (40 g) Truffle Bar consisting of four squares of dark chocolate with minty filling. Created for the Summer Ice Cream collection, this bar is not currently listed anywhere on the Godiva website so it is unclear whether this, like some of the other products in the collection, will only be available for summer or if it will be sold all year-round.

So, this truffle bar is not new to me. I've had it before, and it's just as delicious as it has been before. The dark chocolate and minty filling mixed very well. I'm not a huge fan of dark chocolate, so occasionally that taste was a little overwhelming. But otherwise, the two flavors mixed really well. The mint texture was not as fluid-like as the other strawberry one but rather it more so resembled frosting..I guess. It's hard to describe, but it IS delicious.

Overall rating: 8/10. I love mint chocolate, but I like the truffles better. The dark chocolate became occasionally overpowering. But, it resembled the mint chocolate chip ice cream very well.

Godiva Truffle Bars: Strawberries & Cream in White Chocolate

Godiva Truffle Bars: Strawberries & Cream in White Chocolate
220 calories total, 55 calories per square (in case you need the nutrition)

This is a 1.5 oz (43 g) Truffle Bar consisting of four squares of white chocolate with a creamy strawberry filling. Created for the Summer Ice Cream collection, this bar is not currently listed anywhere on the Godiva website so it is unclear whether this, like some of the other products in the collection, will only be available for summer or if it will be sold all year-round.

Now, as far as my personal review of this bar, it was as I expected. I suspected this bar to taste as it did, and my expectations weren't very high. I'm not a fan in general of artificial fruit flavors in chocolate (as opposed to, per se, natural and real fruit being dipped into chocolate, which I am a fan of). The white chocolate was rich and thick, and the strawberry filling reminded me of strawberry jam. Although it tasted nothing like strawberry jam, its consistency was not very gooey, but sort of viscous (see below). It even looks like it might taste light strawberry jam, but when combined with the white chocolate, the flavor is completely unique. The white chocolate leaves a lasting impression and becomes almost overpowering. Again, I wasn't crazy about the combination in the first place, but this bar did not disappoint. 

As far as rating goes, I'd personally say 6/10.

But, if I were being completely unbiased, it'd be more like an 8/10. It does melt a little in your hands and the white chocolate overpowered the filling. However, I think it'd be difficult to further emphasize the taste of the filling without throwing all the flavors off balance. Godiva did a good job with this one.