Pump Street Bakery – Milk chocolate Madagascar 58%

Description

Dark milk chocolate made from Madagascar cocoa. 58% cocoa.

The cocoa comes from Ambanja, Madagascar.

The taste of the chocolate
Description on the packaging: flavor notes of free fraiche, apricot jam, and golden syrup.

The cocoa used: Madagascar
The cocoa for this bar comes from Akesson’s plantations near Ambanja, Madagascar. The bar is made from the 2015 harvest.

You can read more about this hacienda on the Pump Street Bakery website.

The ingredients of this bar
Cocoa beans, cane sugar, organic cocoa butter, milk powder.

Allergy note from the maker: Made in a bakery that also processes milk, gluten, and tree nuts.

Awards
For this bar, “multi-award-winning” is actually an understatement. It has won numerous medals and prizes. As you may know, we’re not entirely convinced by the taste of milk chocolate ourselves. But the information below does indicate that it’s a wonderful bar in its category.

International Chocolate Aards 2015: 3x (!) Gold Medal (Best Direct Trade Milk Chocolate, Best Chocolate Maker for Milk Chocolate, Best Micro Batch Single Origin Milk Chocolate)

Academy of Chocolate 2015: Bronze Medal – Best Milk Chocolate (category above 45%)

Great Taste Awards: 3 Stars

All these mentions certainly don’t tell the whole story—tastes differ—but if you ever want to try a highly praised bar…

The Chocolate Maker: Pump Street Bakery
Made into a bar by Pump Street Bakery—a small family bakery from Orford, Suffolk (UK). In addition to bread and treats, they now also specialize in making bean-to-bar chocolate bars.