TRENDY SWEET TREATS
COMPILED BY NICOLE POTENZA DENIS
buyers' picks
From vegan coconut-milk chocolate bars
to Icelandic chocolate with strong notes of
licorice, customers around the country are
discovering new favorite confections.
PHOTOS
(CLOCKWISE
FROM
TOP
RIGHT):
DEBRAND
FINE
CHOCOLATES;
DUFFLET;
MARIA
SAN
ANDRES;
FRENCH
BROAD
CHOCOLATES;
CHUAO
CHOCOLATIER
Nina Sparling, Bedford Cheese Shop,
New York, NY
• Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate 75% Brazil Fazenda
Camboa Bar
• French Broad Chocolates Malted Milk 44% Bar
• Neto Chocolates Chocolate Covered Sandwich Cookies
• Oregon Bark TomBumble Nutty
• Tony's Chocolonely Dark Almond Sea Salt Bar
Matt Caputo, Tony Caputo's
Market & Deli, Salt Lake City, UT
• Amano Artisan Chocolate Raspberry Rose
Chocolate 55% Bar
• Luisa Abrams Wild Cacao Rio Purus Brazil 70% Bar
• OmNom Lakkris + Sea Salt Bar
• Pump Street Bakery Chocolate Sourdough &
Sea Salt 66% Bar
• Scaldaferro Torrone with Rosemary Honey and
Langhe Hazelnuts
Jennifer Simon, Simon & Co.,
Wilmington, DE
• Chuao Chocolatier Chocolate Bars
• DeBrand Fine Chocolates Classic Collection
• Dufflet Small Indulgences Nutt-E Dark
Chocolate
• Kohler Chocolates Variety Terrapins
• Nancy's Candy Co. Peanut Butter Cups
"Award-winning inclusion bars,
wild-harvested cacao, slow-
churned fermentation bars,
chocolate mixed with sourdough
breadcrumbs and sea salt
are among the favorites."
—Matt Caputo, Tony Caputo's Market
& Deli, Salt Lake City, UT
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