NYC Tastes

I hadn't been to Roni-Sue in forever!!! She's one of my favorite NYC chocolate makers and I had been neglecting her! I decided to swing by last week and check out what kinds of new stuff she had in stock. I ended up picking up two pieces of chocolate that sounded awesome. One piece of Beer, Pretzel and Chocolate and also a piece of Chocolate covered Bacon. The beer pretzel chocolate was only so so. I love salty with my sweet but there was too much bitterness going on in the chocolate to balance out the salty pretzel crunch. The chocolate covered bacon fared much better. OMG this was pure bliss! A super crispy and high quality piece of bacon covered in silky rich milk chocolate. This was out of this world!!! Highly unhealthy and utterly delicious- this was fantastic. So one slight miss and one huge hit from Roni-Sue. You gotta love her.

I went back to Roni Sue to pick up some more choclates for some work people and was shocked to learn they were completely out of the peanut butter squares!! I didn't know what to do! This was my last present and I was banking on those squares. I started looking at the various truffles when I saw these squares on the bottom shelf. They looked exciting so I asked about the flavor and found out they were Hazelnut. Then I tried a sample and almost fell over! I think they may be better than the peanut butter. So rich and smooth. I knew I had a winner. As I was waiting for my chocolates to be packaged up I started talking with Roni-Sue and found out that she's coming out with a new line of cocktail chocolates this weekend! She reached behind the counter and handed me a sample of the Manhattan chocolate. Wow- really good. The dark chocolate was strong and bitter at first and then the flavor of boubon slowly seeped in. It was nice because it blended well together- neither one ...

Just a quick note about some AMAZING chocolate Ive been eating lately. There is a fairly new Chocolate shop in the Essex Street Market called Ronnie Sue's. It's a tiny closet sized space but what it lacks in size it makes up for in taste!!! I went in to pick up some last minute Christmas presents. My favorite candy they have is their Peanut Squares. I got these about a month ago and knew immediately that I needed to pick some up for My chocolate peanut butter obsessed friends and family. WOW!! How good do these look!!!! You know why they're so good? Its a blend of milk and dark chocolate so you have a little bitter with sweet, then they add natural peanut butter (which I love) and then add a last swirl of white chocolate and peanut butter on the top. Holy cow- so creamy delicious and rich. One square is absolutely decadent. The best part is that Ronnie Sue herself is pretty cool!! She always has something for you to taste and she's just quite a spunky lady. I really lik...