Some of the most beautiful ads...Please rank!

Whether you like chocolate or not, you'd probably be impressed by the aesthetics of some of the chocolates-pages on the web. For example, click on the banner at the top of this page to see an amazing display of chocolate finery.

Whether it's cans of cocoa or the most elegant truffles, chocolate sites have gone far to give the visitor a 'sample'. ("If it looks this good, what must it taste like?")

Several sites advertise right here in my Good Chocolate space, courtesy of Google. So it's easy to see their spreads and feast your eyes, down there on the left.

It's also fascinating to see what types of ingredients chocolatiers add to the basic ingredients of cocoa liquor, cocoa butter, cocoa....

My favorite is chili peppers. Maybe that's because I live in Tucson and appreciate the history behind the fantastic turkey accompaniment, mole poblano. Haven't tried it? It will NOT remind you of fudge brownies! I'll include a site and recipe here under its own title shortly.

We've all got favorite sites, aesthetically speaking. So score some of these sites against your favorite, on a scale of 1 to 5, with your favorite being, say, a 3. Use Comments to post your impressions.

You might also like to post a Comment about what music your favorite chocolate sounds like that. More on that another day. PL

A few more bars for the big test....

So far we are testing just DARK chocolate. It's supposed to be healthier, and from what I read (see below), that's true. So I've added a few selections to the big taste-and-satisfaction test. They are:

Lake Champlain Dark Chocolate
Yamate Chocolatier Dark Sugar Free (with maltitol for a sweetener)
Lindt Excellence Dark Chocolate 70% Cocoa

Let me know what you think. The instructions for the test are in an earlier message. It's best if you do this 'blind' -- you don't know which one is which.

I'd love to hear what you find. Meanwhile my committee of willing participants (daughters and the like) will be subjected to this new selection along with some of the ones we did before for calibration.

PL