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Tony's Chocolonely Milk Chocolate Gingerbread Bar - 1 x 180 Gram - Milkchocolate Bar - Shortbread Flavored - 32% Cacao - Christmas Gift - Vegetarian - Belgian Fairtrade Chocolate

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What he found was that the cocoa farmers in West Africa, who van de Keuken says provide the major chocolate and candy companies with around 60% of the world’s cocoa, have been subjected to horrific conditions. He found farmers living in poverty, not getting a fair trade for their product, and found that unpaid child labour was being used. The aroma is rich and buttery, with just a hint of Christmas spices in the mix. Nutmeg and cinnamon sit at the forefront.

While some folks will fight over the caramel center, some know the real MVP of the assortment is dark chocolate, with that rich, bitter cocoa flavor that makes anything it’s paired with sing. Little of the flavour of the dark chocolate successfully competes against the peppermint, but while it may not impart much flavour, it does add richness and body to the overall profile. The aftertaste is dominated by the peppermint, with faint chocolatey undertones. It still uses Fairtrade cocoa and sugar, but doesn’t contain any milk, so it’s suitable for vegans (though Tony’s does caution it may contain traces of eggs and milk from the production process). This Tony’s Chocolonely Milk Chocolate Gingerbread Bar is a festive chocolate bar with a difference – find a Fairtrade chocolate Christmas tree hidden in the bar and break it out! With a small hole at the top of the chocolate tree you can even thread through some ribbon and make an extra special chocolate tree decoration - if you can wait that long to eat it!

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In a mixer with paddle attachment, beat the cooled brown butter with the sugar until fluffy and light. Sugar, dried whole milk, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, nougat (10%) (sugar, glucose syrup, almonds (2%), honey (0.2%), cocoa butter, potato starch, egg white, natural vanilla extract), emulsifier (soya lecithin). Cocoa solids: 32% minimum. Once your butter has changed from yellow to golden brown, remove from the pan and cool down over a bowl of ice.

There’s also something to be said for how well these bars are changing our outlook on the chocolate industry. It all began in the early 2000s, when investigative journalist Teun van de Keuken was looking into the process of chocolate production for the Dutch TV show Keuringsdienst van Waarde.So far, I've enjoyed feasting on the Tony’s Chocolonely Lemon Meringue Easter Milk Chocolate Bar and the seasonal Tony’s Chocolonely Candy Cane & Gingerbread Christmas Chocolate Bars, so I was intrigued as to what I would find here. I bought two bars. The blue clad bar is the 51% Dark Chocolate Mint Candy Cane Chocolate Bar, while the orange one is the Gingerbread 32% Milk Chocolate Bar. A chunky gold foil-clad bar awaits, and tearing this off reveals a trademark bar, full of irregular chunks of chocolate (to reflect the unequal nature of the cocoa industry). The most sought after pieces are the large rectangular Tony's Chocolonely logo and the round broken chain motif. The chunky chocolate bar, with irregular patterns This cookie is set by Addthis. This is a geolocation cookie to understand where the users sharing the information are located.

Both bars sounded tasty to me but do the flavours live up to expectations? Should you be ditching those same-old chocolate tubs you always buy in favour of these chocolate bars this Christmas? Should you just get the one or are they both "game changers"? Helping those farmers have access to resources to improve their production, both in terms of ethical efficiency and environmental impactYes, Tony’s makes chocolate bars, but they got into the business in an attempt to change the industry via leading by example. Ingredients are bought at higher prices to ensure the farmers are properly compensated with a stable living income They even have a special certification, Tony’s Open Chain, that other companies can participate in to show they’re following the 5-step philosophy and making a difference. Plenty of smaller companies are already onboard. The company’s philosophy, which has guided their business since inception, is broken up into 5 major components: Sugar, dried whole milk, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, gingerbread (8.33%) (sugar, wheat flour, butter, whole egg, ginger, invert sugar syrup, ginger powder, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, salt, rising agent (sodium carbonate)), emulsifier (soya lecithin). Cocoa solids: 32% minimum.

Love it or hate it, Christmas is fast approaching. Since August I've been writing about Christmas chocolates, detailing what supermarkets and grocers are rolling out for the festive season. Tony's Chocolonely 32% Milk Chocolate Gingerbread Bar Review The milk chocolate bar next to its orange wrapper This is set by Hotjar to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions.

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Chop the Tony's Chocolonely milk chocolate gingerbread bar into really small pieces. Place in a medium saucepan with the milk. Heat on medium/high until the chocolate has melted and dissolved. Add the brewed coffee. There's a hanging hole at the top of the trees so that you can thread through your own ribbon and hang it on your own Christmas tree, should you wish - so long as your parcel doesn't arrive like mine did with each bar broken into multiple pieces. If you were feeling creative and your bar arrives intact, you'd need a pretty strong branch to support these weighty chocolate bars, and you might want to think twice about this if you have pets.

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