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In some circles there’s a conception that milk chocolate is the Merlot of the chocolate world . A true connoisseur, the thinking goes, seeks out dark chocolate—the darker the better!—and leaves milk chocolate to dilettantes and babies.
But let’s take a minute and unpack that. While a lot of milk chocolate just so happens to be poor quality, milk chocolate itself is not the problem. The zeitgeist tells us that we “should” prefer dark chocolate much the same as we should prefer wine, coffee , and whiskey with flavor profiles that run toward the extreme. But sometimes I just want to eat something accessible and enjoyable without embarking on a cerebral tasting exercise. Somewhere in between 100% cacao—which, let’s be real, no one wants—and crappy milk chocolate, there’s something that delivers on quality and flavor but is still approachable. For me that’s Fruition Chocolate Works’ 68% dark milk chocolate bar .
Claire Saffitz introduced me to Fruition, a small chocolatier in an unlikely location in upstate New York, when I was looking for some really nice chocolate to gift to my wife for Christmas one year. My wife is English and grew up eating Dairy Milk and Flakes and Twirls, so while she loves dark chocolate, she also has a soft spot for the milkier stuff. Fruition’s milk chocolate offerings include a brown butter bar and one that contains Peruvian salt , but my favorite is the dark milk , which is made with cacao from Peru’s Marañón Canyon. Often with single origin chocolate, the producer leans into the fruitiness or the acidity, which can be interesting from a culinary perspective but isn’t necessarily what I crave when I want chocolate. But Fruition’s dark milk is balanced and incredibly satisfying.
At around $10 for a 60 gram bar, Fruition isn’t cheap, but its price is on par with most other specialty chocolates, and we are talking about a bar of chocolate that, in my opinion, is the absolute best that can be obtained by mere mortals. It’s beautiful chocolate. And yes, it’s milk.
Fruition Chocolate Dark Milk Chocolate Bar
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