Vosges Haut Chocolat: Kayoko
So I gave in and ordered some more chocolate, despite the pricy shipping. In large part, that was because I wanted to try out the seasonal Green Truffle Collection, inspired, as the website says, "by the spices, teas, fruits and flowers indigenous to Asia." There are four truffles in the collection, Ellatria (Indian green cardamom + dark chocolate + white poppy seeds), Kaffir (Thai kaffir lime + fresh coconut + dark chocolate), Kayoko (Japanese macha green tea + white chocolate + cherry blossom petals), and Buddha's Leaf (Malaysian pandan leaves + dark chocolate + cocoa powder).
I got the nine-piece box, which means I ended up with three of the Kayoko. Now, white chocolate isn't actually chocolate, and I personally consider it somewhere between blasphemy and abomination. Nonetheless, I decided to try one for the sake of thoroughness, because you, my fellow chocoholics, deserve to know about even the terrible lie of white chocolate.
It...wasn't half-bad, actually. Which means it was only about half-good, but green tea is a strong taste and it nicely cut the super-sweetness of the evil white stuff that masquerades as chocolate. And the texture of the evil white stuff was not as waxy as it usually is. It was a shell around a kind of ganache made with the green tea, with bits of cherry blossom that didn't taste like anything, but added their own interesting variation to the textures. And I couldn't smell them, which is good. Also, the truffle was very pretty.
That said, I'll probably find someone who likes white chocolate to feed the other two.
I got the nine-piece box, which means I ended up with three of the Kayoko. Now, white chocolate isn't actually chocolate, and I personally consider it somewhere between blasphemy and abomination. Nonetheless, I decided to try one for the sake of thoroughness, because you, my fellow chocoholics, deserve to know about even the terrible lie of white chocolate.
It...wasn't half-bad, actually. Which means it was only about half-good, but green tea is a strong taste and it nicely cut the super-sweetness of the evil white stuff that masquerades as chocolate. And the texture of the evil white stuff was not as waxy as it usually is. It was a shell around a kind of ganache made with the green tea, with bits of cherry blossom that didn't taste like anything, but added their own interesting variation to the textures. And I couldn't smell them, which is good. Also, the truffle was very pretty.
That said, I'll probably find someone who likes white chocolate to feed the other two.