Endangered Species Dark Chocolate with Deep Forest Mint 70% cocoa content - gorilla

Price:  $2.74/HEB

85 g, 3 oz

Their info:  100% ethically traded.  We buy our cocoa from small, family-owned properties, helping sustain the habitats and communities they are in.

Ingredients:  dark chocolate (cocoa mass, unbleached water filtered beet sugar, soy lecithin (as an emulsifier), and natural vanilla), natural mint flavor, Indianapolis, IN   Product of USA

I wasn’t too excited when I first saw this bar with mint—didn’t want to have a creamy explosion of peppermint seeping through the thin chocolate skin like those boxed candies.  Oh, no, this bar smells like smooth chocolate and then the mint aroma wafts through gently as a bit of a surprise—not overpowering.  No, nothing blocks the chocolate taste that is both creamy and more a liquid chocolate taste as opposed to cocoa powder.  Each square has enough softness to take you back to the original Kisses with a light touch of mint just to make it interesting and somehow capturing your hand and making it break off another set of three squares.  If you were lost in a fairytale forest, you would want this one with you.  It’s very comforting and one of the best. I wasn’t up for wine in the early afternoon so used some Cool Mint lip moisturizer to keep the mint taste going for awhile.