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| - CHOCOLATES: If compared with Godiva's concoctions and those of other luxury chocolatiers, Delight Chocolate's filled chocolates have a standardized shape and plain designs. Delight Chocolate are encased in strong, sweet chocolate which is either milk (approximately 38%) or mid-dark chocolate; one or two white chocolate covered options are produced per season. The milk chocolates tend to have soothing but satisfying fillings, such as Orange Espresso, Hazelnut Toffee, Vanilla Earl Grey and Cappuccino (tinged with cinnamon). The sweetest option is the milk chocolate covered Caramel, which has an intensely sweet, buttery liquid filling. The dark chocolates have more intense flavours, with the unadulterated taste of spices (Fresh Mint, Ginger), fruit (Strawberry in the summer, Raspberry in the winter) and alcohol (Whiskey, Ice Wine, Butter Rum, Irish Cream & Mint Mojito). The popular dark chocolate is the multilayered Chocolate Caramel Sea Salt. The white chocolates tend to have delicately flavour fillings such as Cardamom Rose and the legitimately boozy Eggnog.
All of Delight Chocolate's tropically sourced ingredients (cocoa, sugar, vanilla, nuts, spices and coffee) are fair trade certified and organic. All of Delight's northern hemisphere produced ingredients (milk, fruit, alcohol, maple syrup) are also organic, and sourced from local farmers, brewers or tappers. The smoked sea salt is sourced from British Columbia and the Five Year Old Cheddar is from the cheesemongers down the street. Delight Chocolate makes its own fruit jams, caramels and ganache(definitely a hellish work environment for a glutton with a sweet tooth).
Overall Delight's chocolates taste exceptional. The spices bite, the caramels delight, the alcohol warms, the fruits refresh and the cheese smells. The chocolates are satisfying: one will sate a sugar craving and two will stop hunger pangs. Delight Chocolate enjoy creating daring flavour pairings. Their winter/Christmas selection contains a generous amount of spiced fruit (Grapefruit Chili, Orange Spice, Almond Orange & Spiced Plum) which stray from the chocolate box comfort zone. My favourites are the simple medleys in milk chocolate and the rich and simple dark chocolates (i.e. Extra Dark & Vanilla Icicle). I would have preferred the fruit fillings to have been creamed rather than jellied, and possibly paired with spices (e.g. a strawberry cream with candied ginger). The Five Year Old Cheddar is great for cheddar lovers. I long for a taste similar of that of the greatest filled chocolate I ever melted in my mouth: Le Riopelle from Miss Chocolat in Gatineau, QC ("Ganache with triple cream cheese Riopelle"). The simple, rich fillings (Maple Butter & Peanut Butter) are pleasant but forgettable (if only candied bacon could be inserted).
CAKE: Delight Chocolate makes small flourless chocolate cakes. (Larger cakes are available by special order.) The flourless cakes have the consistency of brownies and the texture of icing. The cake dissolves in the mouth. It has a full bodied chocolate flavour with moderate sweetness. The cake is rich; one fat little slice will fill you up. If all flourless cakes are this delicious, they could dominate the market.
HOT CHOCOLATE: Delight Chocolate's hot chocolate comes in Regular, Spicy, Peanut Butter, Caramel and Bittersweet Orange, as well as seasonal specials. I have tasted the first three flavours, plus a White Chocolate Raspberry. Delight's hot chocolates have a rich, milky chocolate flavour. They do not have the intense concentration of drinking chocolate or the biting taste of dark or bittersweet chocolate. They are filling and pleasant, though a touch too sweet.
ICE CREAM: In its Junction neighbourhood Delight Chocolate's is as popular for its ice cream as for its chocolates. Delight's ice cream has a thick, chewy texture and an excellent balance of creaminess, sweetness and flavour. Its Chocolate Ice Cream has a wonderful, full bodied flavour. Delight's Ontario Strawberry is only available only in the summer months, between late June and early August. Compared with Hagen Daaz's famous version, Delight's Strawberry ice cream is tart, fragrant, and sweet. It is a dark shade of pink, and pleasantly embedded with strawberry seeds. Delight also has nice Black Velvet Espresso and Maple Walnut flavours. Its Vanilla Bean flavour is unexceptional. The standout flavour for me is Banana Caramel, a summer flavour which captures the heady sweetness of caramel and the delicacy of bananas. Despite the popularity of Banana Foster drinks and Banoffee cakes, Banana Caramel ice cream remains rare. This rarity and its excellent taste should propel Delight Chocolate's Banana Caramel ice cream onto any list of Toronto's most stellar iced treats. I purchase mini cone at Delight Chocolates, which is one fat scoop of ice cream served in a squat sugar cone.
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