Hello, my name is Paula and I am a chocoholic. This festival was made for me. The Chocolate Lovers’ Festival is an annual two-day event, but I only went on Saturday. At the Taste of Chocolate, you could buy from various vendors. Pogs were sold for $1 each. The prices started at 1 pog. It was horribly crowded, but worth being there.
I love truffles, so I bought a good variety from different vendors. From the first vendor, I bought six truffles: caramel, toasted coconut, dark chocolate, cappuccino, hazelnut, and tiramisu. It was hard not to eat them all at once. They were DIVINE! The filling had a very fresh and creamy texture.
Chocolate Lovers' Festival: truffles (3 truffles/2 pogs)
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Chocolate Lovers' Festival: creamy filling
- The next couple of truffles I bought are from the Virginia Chocolate Company. One was mint chocolate. The other was made of some sort of Indian spice (seemed similar to Chai) and dark chocolate, which I thought was a really unique and daring flavor for a truffle. They were also really good. You could tell they were freshly made.
Chocolate Lovers' Festival: Virginia Chocolate Company (2 truffles/3 pogs)
The last set of truffles I bought were from Schakolad Chocolate Factory. I got the Mocha and the Jamaican Rum Ganache. Yummy!
Chocolate Lovers' Festival: Schakolad (1 truffle/1 pog)
I love homemade fudge. Ben & Xander’s offered a great variety of fudge. I knew if I bought even a 1/4 pound of any of them, I would feel guilty later. Instead, I got a sample of five of their fudges, including chocolate mint, coconut, dark chocolate, maple walnut and french vanilla.
Chocolate Lovers' Festival: Ben & Xander's Fudge Co (5 samples/1pog)
Victoria’s Cakery was selling slices of cake for 2 pogs each. I obviously couldn’t resist. I bought a slice of “Heaven” which was white cake with raspberry filling and white chocolate icing and a slice of “The Devil Made me Do it,” which was a three layer chocolate cake (one layer of brownie, one layer of fudge, one layer of chocolate cake, and topped off with chocolate icing). I could probably eat a whole cake of the chocolate cake all by myself.
Chocolate Lovers' Festival: Victoria's Cakery (1 slice/2 pogs)
The last thing I bought was a Chai Tea milk chocolate bar from Fair Trade Winds for Jason’s birthday. I thought the Chai was too strong, but he loved it.
Chocolate Lovers' Festival: Fair Trade Winds Chai Tea chocolate bar (3 pogs)
List of vendors:
Aunt Joanie’s Chocolate Shoppe, Inc.
Ben & Xander’s Fudge Co.
C & D Sweets
Capitol Chocolate Fountains
Confection Connection
Connie’s Chocolate Confections
Dave’s Candy Kitchen
Fair Trade Winds
Schakolad Chocolate Factory
The Sweet Life
Victoria’s Cakery
Virginia Chocolate Company
Watergate Pasty Shop
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