{"id":3032,"date":"2012-08-30T09:49:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T16:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2022-10-21T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T18:24:24","slug":"6-snickers-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/local-chocolate\/6-snickers-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"$6 Snickers bar"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: September 2014, it appears that Double Dutch Sweets is no longer in business.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t eat candy bars anymore. It started decades ago when they changed the formula for Three Musketeers bars from one of my favorite candies to something inedible. As I got older and preferred darker chocolate, more bars dropped out of my favor as being too sweet.<\/p>\n

\"Double<\/a>
The Ramona Bar by Double Dutch Sweets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then 10-12 years ago, I found out about the horrors of trans fats and high fructose corn syrup and stopped eating traditional candy bars altogether. Don\u2019t pity me, though \u2014 at the time I lived half a block from a See\u2019s Candies<\/a><\/strong> store, where I could get my candy bar fix without the trans fats and high fructose corn syrup, and which started my interest in local chocolate.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019ve even stopped dropping by See\u2019s, now that we have so much great chocolate here in SFBA. Now I prefer high-quality artisan chocolate bars, bonbons and truffles. Candy bars had fallen off my radar.<\/p>\n

Nostalgic splurge<\/h2>\n

Recently, I saw a Double Dutch Sweets<\/strong> display in my local cheese shop. Checking a wrapper, I saw they were local handmade candy bars with dark chocolate listed as the second ingredient, so I splurged on a bar. It\u2019s shorter than traditional commercial candy bars, but thick and heavy.<\/p>\n

When Cacaopod split it open, we saw deep layers of nougat and caramel inside the chocolate shell. With the first bite, Cacaopod said it tasted like a Snickers bar, but better. We especially liked that the shell is made of a tasty dark chocolate, plus the nougat and caramel had a nice chewy texture so the active pleasure of eating it was longer than a typical candy bar. And the tastes lingered afterwards \u2014 all that high quality fat and sugars.<\/p>\n

This is a good bar to share because unlike a traditional Snickers bar of similar weight, this one really does satisfy. It might not be what you want if you are looking for a chocolate fix \u2014 it\u2019s not a full-mouth-of-chocolate experience \u2014 but if you\u2019d like to enjoy a candy bar again, splurge for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If traditional candy bars no longer float your boat, here’s an upgrade you might enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,15,169],"tags":[30,339,324],"class_list":["post-3032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-bay-chocolate","category-local-chocolate","category-reviews","tag-artisan","tag-double-dutch-sweets","tag-sees-candies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35576,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions\/35576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}