Spring is finally here, and what better way to celebrate than with some delicious chocolate bars? As the days get longer and the weather gets warmer, it's time to indulge in sweet treats that capture the season's essence. From fruity and floral flavors to lighter and fresher options, there's a chocolate bar for every taste and preference. This blog will look at some of the best chocolate bars to try this spring. Whether you're looking for a new favorite or a unique gift idea, we've got you covered.

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Spring Chocolate Flavors

Spring is a season of renewal and growth, bringing fresh and vibrant flavors. Many chocolate makers have been inspired by the season to create chocolate bars with unique and exciting flavor combinations that capture the essence of spring.

One popular spring-inspired flavor is fruit, notably citrusy and tangy fruits like lemon, lime, and orange. Chocolate bars that use these flavors often have a refreshing and zesty taste, perfect for a sunny spring day. 

Floral flavors are also popular in spring-inspired chocolate bars. Many chocolate makers use flowers like lavender, rose, and hibiscus to add a delicate and fragrant taste to their bars. These flavors can be delightful.

In addition to fruity and floral flavors, some chocolate makers use other ingredients that are reminiscent of spring, such as herbs and spices.

Best Spring Chocolate To Try

Amano Raspberry Rose 55%

Amano chocolate got its start finding some of the most amazing beans around the world and bringing out their natural flavors. Now with the same care and passion, they brought to single-origin chocolate their offering amazing chocolate bars with added natural flavors. As with their single-origin bars the focus is to be as true to the ingredients as possible. Here you will encounter not just the famous flavors of their dark chocolate made with Ecuadorian beans. You'll also find raspberries and rose petals ground and smoothly mixed with chocolate. Small bits of sugar crystals give a satisfying crunch in your mouth.

Spring Flavor: Raspberry & Rose

Tasting notes: Fruity

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Amano Raspberry Rose 55%

Manoa Liliko'i Passion Fruit Dark Milk Chocolate 50%

This inclusion bar features vibrant artwork by local artist Shar Tuiasoa of Punky Aloha, and delicate molding inspired by Polynesian tattoo patterns. Together with historical tidbits about each inclusion ingredient, the complete package of flavor, art, and culture creates three bars that do more than taste good: this is chocolate with a sense of place. When the seeds of passion fruit first came to Hawaii from Australia in 1880, they were planted in the East Maui district of Liliko'i and the name stuck. The juice, with its distinct tangy flavor, is a popular ingredient in Hawaiian cuisine, used to make sauce, candy, ice cream, tea, or in cocktails and shaved ice.

Spring Flavor: Passion Fruit

Tasting notes: Tropical Fruit 

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Manoa Liliko'i Passion Fruit Dark Milk Chocolate 50%

Raaka Coconut Milk 60%

This is a vegan dark milk chocolate. It’s proof that we can, sometimes, have it all. It’s a silky, smooth utopian bar that catapults you into peak summer, with lush notes of berries and cream. Made with single-origin Ugandan cacao from Semuliki Forest and pure shredded coconut.

Spring Flavor: Coconut

Tasting notes: Berries & Cream

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Raaka Coconut Milk 60%

Goodio Fennel 49%

A delicate touch of licorice from fennel combined with Peruvian fine cacao for a balanced flavor combination. Enjoy!

Spring Flavor: Fennel

Tasting notes: Licorice & Floral

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Goodio Fennel 49%

 Dick Taylor Vanilla Raspberry 72%

Using their 2018 Good Food Award-winning 73% Northerner Blend (Madagascan & Brazilian cacao) dark chocolate they've dusted it with a mix of organic freeze-dried raspberries and organic vanilla coconut palm sugar to make a delightful berry bar for Valentine's Day.

Spring Flavor: Raspberry

Tasting notes: Fruity & Bright

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Dick Taylor Vanilla Raspberry 72%

Amedei Toscano Red Chocolate Bar 70%

Amedei's extra dark chocolate with pieces of dried strawberry, cherry, and raspberries throughout.

Spring Flavor: Strawberry, Cherry & Raspberry

Tasting notes: Fruity

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Raspberry

Ritual Apres Chocolate, Champagne with Raspberries 70%

Whenever there is something to celebrate, Ritual loves to do it with a bottle of bubbly, chocolate, and berries. So they created a chocolate bar that contained them all. They soaked Madagascar cocoa nibs in sparkling white wine in a wine barrel, then grinding those nibs into chocolate and topped it off with dried raspberries.

Spring Flavor: Raspberries

Tasting Notes: Champagne & Raspberries

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Ritual Apres Chocolate, Champagne with Raspberries 70%

Cacao Sampaka Roses and Strawberries White Chocolate

Creamy white chocolate dances with crisp dried strawberries and rose petals. The rose aroma enhances the bright berries with a pleasant crunch and lingering sweetness. Reminiscent of childhood fruity cereals with dried strawberries soaked in milk. The addition of rose comes through as an aroma and plays a supporting role in crispy strawberries and sweet white chocolate.

Spring Flavor: Roses & Strawberries

Tasting notes: Strawberry & Floral

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Cacao Sampaka Roses and Strawberries White Chocolate

OmNom Lakkrís + Raspberry

Caramelized licorice chocolate sets the stage for tart raspberries and sea salt in this bright fuchsia bar, topped with additional dried raspberries.

Spring Flavor: Raspberry

Tasting notes: Herbal, Caramelized White Chocolate, Tart, Salty & Dried Berries

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OmNom Lakkrís + Raspberry

 Fossa Lychee Rose Dark Milk Chocolate

Transport to a fragrant and flourishing Thai garden with this rose tea-infused Tanzania dark milk chocolate, topped with dehydrated lychee and crunchy cacao nibs. Lychee is native to Southeast Asia. This fruit has been a local favorite since ancient times and was once enjoyed as a delicacy in the Chinese imperial court. When fresh, the pulp is aromatic and musky, but is very sweet and floral when dried, as it is in this bar.

Spring Flavor: Lychee & Rose

Tasting notes: Juicy Lychee, Floral, Delicate & Fragrant

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Fossa Lychee Rose Dark Milk Chocolate

 Ritual Juniper Lavender 70%

Conjuring up the aroma of mountain meadows, lavender and juniper are finely ground into Mid Mountain Blend chocolate, whose taste lingers with a floral punch. The Lavender for this bar is sourced from Lavender Hill Farms in Eden, Utah. Combined with dried juniper berries, this bar is fit for flower fanatics.

Spring Flavor: Lavender

Tasting Notes: Floral, Aromatic, Lavender, Juniper, Pine & Citrus

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Ritual Juniper Lavender 70%

Beyond Good Orange Zest 73%

Chocolate and citrus have been working well together for over a century, but their rich Uganda base chocolate paired with sweet bites of orange zest may be their best collaboration yet.

Spring Flavor: Orange Citrus

Tasting Notes: Bright, fresh bites of sweet citrus with a long bittersweet cocoa finish.

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Beyond Good Orange Zest 73%

LetterPress Mint Trinidad 70%

Using their Ghana Ashanti 70% dark chocolate, they've added steam-distilled mint oil for a fresh mint taste that they feel is one of the best mint chocolate bars you can experience.

Spring Flavor: Mint 

Tasting notes: Sweet & Cool

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LetterPress Mint Trinidad 70%

Marou Ba Ria Ginger Lime 69%

Setting the stage for the flavors of Ba Ria to shine, this bar is a marriage of fruity cacao, acidic lime, and floral, refreshing ginger. Vietnamese cuisine is known for its celebration of bright, complementary herbs and vegetables. Ginger and lime are two very commonly used ingredients in many Vietnamese dishes and are cultivated throughout the country. Cacao, ginger, and lime are all grown in the same Vietnamese region.

Spring Flavor: Ginger & Lime

Tasting notes: Ginger & Citrus

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Marou Ba Ria Ginger Lime 69%

 Fruition Coquito Coconut White Chocolate

Inspired by the Puerto Rican coconut cream cocktail Coquito, this bar is warm and cozy to make you feel at home for the holidays. Spiced white chocolate featuring candied cocoa nibs for fun contrast and texture.

Spring Flavor: Coconut

Tasting Note: Coconut & Rum

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Fruition Coquito Coconut White Chocolate

Rose & Pistachio 'Falooda' White Chocolate

A smooth white chocolate base sprinkled with chia seeds, bright green pistachios, and crunchy rose candy. A unique bar from the Monsoon collection transforming a once royal dessert into a chocolate bar, the Falooda was spread by the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent as a dessert made only for royals however later became a traditional Indian dessert.

Spring Flavor: Rose

Tasting notes: Nutty & Floral

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Rose & Pistachio 'Falooda' White Chocolate

Be sure to explore our Spring Chocolate Collection for a wider range of chocolate flavors that are perfect for the season.

To get started with craft chocolate, start with our Kekao Box. We search the world for the finest chocolate bars and bring them right to your doorstep monthly. From rich dark Peruvian chocolate bars to new start-up chocolate bars on the come-up, you never know what you'll get inside the box! Each month we will curate 4 to 5 premium specialty crafted chocolate bars. 

If you want to just try a couple of bars, check out our online chocolate store.

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March 15, 2023