Delice Chocolatier Chocolates

Delice Chocolatier is based out of Arlington, Texas. This was interesting to me because it is close to where I live. I received the chocolate the day after I got the message that it was being shipped.

The odd thing is that even though the chocolate arrived the next day, and didn’t travel far…and even though it was wrapped in insulating material and with ice packs it was hot. It surprised me because we aren’t having a hot summer and other companies that have sent me cold items have done so successfully. Opening the chocolate I found that it was beautiful, but melty.

In the fridge it went.

When the candy had hardened up enough to get it out of the box I tried it.

The texture is very creamy, in keeping with fine European chocolates. It is creamy enough that it softens at a  room temperature of 80 degrees.  It is completely smooth on the tongue and has a great mouth feel.

Although there were a variety of unique flavors I was not impressed with the taste. The flavor combinations had huge amounts of potential but in reality they were somewhat bland and overpowered by the chocolate itself. The flavors I thought were the most well balanced were:

*Lavender

*Rose

*Hazelnut

The rest of them were not particularly unique, the flavors were lost in the intensity of the chocolate. The designs on two of the chocolates were inedible, and I found myself with a mouthful of posterboard disk.

These are good chocolates but for an artisan price I preferred the Pure Imagination chocolates that Becke sent me in the blog exchange a year ago.

The Delice Chocolatier chocolate is good but it isn’t fantastic.

images:marye audet