Cost Plus World Market Gourmet Chocolate Bars

Cost Plus World Market offers a wide variety of exotic products from all over the world. They also have product lines of their own, one of which is a marvelous selection of gourmet chocolates.

With pomegranate, chipotle chilis, sea salt, and several different grades of dark chocolate as well as a milk chocolate bar, Cost Plus has put together a package sure to please any chocolate lover.

The dark chocolate bar with sea salt is one of the most pleasant surprises I've had in a while (after Mo's Bacon Bar from Vosges). Rich, dark chocolate studded with bits of sea salt, it's the perfect bar for that particular salt-and-sweet craving. Best of all, it's considerably less expensive than comparable gourmet chocolate bars. These bars are only available at World Market stores, and cannot be ordered through their website. Highly recommended.

Hot Chili and Chocolate from Vosges

In addition to their phenomenal bacon bar, Vosges also makes the Red Fire Exotic Candy Bar. This bar offers a combination of dark chocolate, Ceylon cinnamon, and Mexican ancho and chipotle chilis. Sweet at first bite, then fiery, it's a perfectly balanced combination of flavors.

Vosges also makes an Aztec cocoa with combined cocoa, cinnamon, peppers and vanilla bean.

Bacon Chocolate Bars from Vosges

Vosges Haute Chocolate makes some of the most intriguing chocolate combinations out there. But one of the most intriguing is Mo's Bacon Bar. Sweet, applewood bacon, sea salt, and deep milk chocolate all combined in a single bar. (The bar also comes in dark chocolate.)

I was skeptical that bacon in a chocolate bar would be anything but, well, weird. Maybe even kind of gross. But one bite of this bar changed my mind. It's the perfect balance of salt and sweet, and the bacon and chocolate flavors are perfectly balanced. Vosges is a great place to go to try something aside from regular, humdrum chocolate, and Mo's Bacon Bar is a great place to start on your new chocolate adventure.