Product Review: What Am I Chocolates

It's only a couple days until Easter, and I told you I was going to bring you a slew of vegan candy reviews so you could do your conscious candy shopping just in time to fill the baskets for your loved ones. Earlier in the week I posted the Gourmellows review, and of course you can never forget about good old GoMaxGo vegan candy bars. Now it's time for What Am I Chocolates to shine.

What I Am Chocolates is a new artisanal chocolate company producing organic fair trade agave sweetened small batch chocolates in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to their retail business, What Am I operates a quasi "Kitchen Residency" program where artists craft limited edition chocolates.

The first sample I tried from What Am I Chocolates was their Dark Bar + Roasted Almonds. A simple but tasty chocolate bar, it was quite evident that the cacao was pure and the almonds were fresh. Not too sweet, not too bitter, just right. I would've liked if the almonds were a little more embedded in the bar rather than just sitting on the top, but that's just a personal preference.

The other sample was a small square of their Dark Bar Mini + Roasted Almonds + Ghost Pepper Sea Salt. For those of you not familiar with the Ghost Pepper, or Bhut Jolokia, it is the hottest pepper on the planet, approximately 100+ times hotter than the hottest known jalepenos! Obviously working with this pepper is tricky to say the least, and I commend What Am I for their bravery. It did, however, fall a little short of my expectations as they errored on the side of not spicy enough and the sea salt was more apparent than the spiciness. Still a quality bar, I would've liked to see the salt reduced a little and the pepper increased just a little, that would've made this chocolate one of the most unique ever.

Thanks to What Am I Chocolates for sending me some samples to try and for putting in the effort to make chocolates with love the old fashioned way, instead of on some assembly line conveyor belt.

Click here to visit the What Am I Chocolates site.

Click here to follow What Am I Chocolates on Twitter.