L’ Estasi Dolce
One day a few years ago I had the opportunity to taste chocolate candy after chocolate candy to the point that the good ones all kind of blurred together in my palate and my memory. Finally at the end of a long and food laden day, I tasted these two candies from Decadent Tastes, a Monterey, California, based company doing business as L’ Estasi Dolce, or Sweet Ecstasy. The company specializes in merging Asian and Western flavors into intriguing confections.
I can still recall my first bite into the company’s Peanut Ginger Chocolate Candy. My initial thought was that it was like an adult Butterfinger, with that same peanut-y, flaky, crisp, interior, but with strong notes of candied ginger and a wonderful dark chocolate covering. I was hooked. I had a new favorite. Then I tried the Cabernet Truffle. The same wonderful dark chocolate but this time with a juicy, almost jam-like Cabernet-flavored ganache filling. No overt Asian notes in this offering, but the candy’s flavors were well balanced and delightful. I guess I had two new favorites.
L’Estasi Dolce also makes other flavors including a champagne truffle, lemongrass ginger truffle and flavored caramel corn. I know I should try all those, too, but every time I have the opportunity I find it hard to pass up the Peanut Ginger or the Cabernet.
Photos to come.
