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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Annalisa Barbieri

Notes on chocolate: from childish treats to thoroughly grown-up 100% bars

A bar of chocolate and the wrapper for Luisa’s Philippines, 92% bar.
‘Don’t be too scared by the percentage, it’s really creamy for how heavily it punches’: Luisa’s Philippines, 92%. Photograph: PR

It’s rare I have to buy chocolate for cooking these days, but I do love a chocolate drop. Chocolate drops seem utterly decadent; there was no way I would have been allowed to buy them growing up, you chopped up a bar of regular chocolate. To me they scream luxe and what ‘other people’ have. So when I saw Duchy Organic Milk chocolate Drops (39% cocoa) reduced to clear in Waitrose for £1.25, I stocked up. The problem is that not many have made it into my cooking, they are so delicious.

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