Sugar Savvy

Summer vacations and chocolate are not mutually exclusive. Several candy makers boast that their products are good travelers and some claim their products won’t melt in your hand or your handbag or backpack.

The Chocolate Traveler just seems made to go on vacation. Sixteen smooth and luscious wedges of milk, dark, white or sugar free chocolates are packed in a handy, resealable tin. Easy to tote and made of quality ingredients, these chocolates will go far.

What’s a summer vacation without fudge? Fudge Fatale says its golden foil wrapped cubes of dark chocolate fudge resist the heat and are a good summer treat. Sugar Savvy wrote about this candy during our Five Days of Fudge extravaganza a while back. Read about it here.

Fudge Fatale and The Chocolate Traveler products are available in retail locations or through their websites.

The artisans at ChocolateSmith hand dip dark chocolate ganache pates in multi-colored Dutch cheese wax. While the resulting wax-covered pates could be mistaken for blocks of gouda cheese, the colorful rind preserves the chocolate for up to two months and makes it waterproof and heat tolerant. These Packer’s Pates, according to ChocolateSmith, have satisfied the chocolate cravings of travelers in jungles, cities and on mountain tops around the world. The company does say if the weather does get hot enough, the chocolate pate will soften, but the wax will protect it and a quick chilling will bring it back to perfection. Packer’s Pate comes in five flavors: dark chocolate; dark chocolate raspberry; dark chocolate peanut butter; orange chili chocolate, and nuts and berries.

The ChocolateSmith store is located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, but the pates are available by mail order.

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Photo credits: The Chocolate Traveler, ChocolateSmith