Cocoa Nymph Chocolate

I'm baaack! San Diego was a blast. The weather was fantastic, the food was good, and I had lots of fun in the sun.

I'm heading to Sydney in a few days, so I'll try really hard to squeeze in a post or two about my food adventures in San Diego in between now and when I leave.

My sister-in-law just got back from her trip to Vancouver, and of course, brought back some edible goodies for me. This time, she brought me Cocoa Nymph chocolate.

Cocoa Nymph is a local Vancouver chocolaterie that was started by former civil servant, Rachel Sawatzky. She started out by making chocolates for her co-workers as a hobby. They enjoyed them so much, that, she was encouraged to sell her cocoa delights. Well...the rest is history. You can watch a great video on Rachel's inspirations, and her story on how she got started on the Cocoa Nymph home page.

Cocoa Nymph carries a range of chocolates and confections including truffles, marshmallows, toffee, and candied pecans. They have a great shopping section on their website where you can pick and choose your personalized box of individual chocolates, and then have it effortlessly shipped to your door.

I received two chocolate bars: Urban Nymph and Sea Nymph.

Urban Nymph is a 45% deep milk chocolate bar with coffee and caramelized cocoa nibs. This was my favorite of the two. There was a nice strong coffee aroma throughout the bar, and the cocoa nibs were fun to eat. You can taste the love in this chocolate bar.

The Sea Nymph bar is 64% dark chocolate with fleur de sel and bits of Cocoa Nymph's English toffee. Of the salt and toffee, I expected the toffee to be the more prominent flavor. Au contraire. I didn't taste a lot of English toffee, but there were little surprising pockets of sea salt throughout the bar.

What I loved doing after dinner was take small alternating nibbles of each chocolate bar until I had my sugar fix. I'd take a small bite of the Urban Nymph, then a small bite of the Sea Nymph, then back to Urban Nymph, and so on. It was heaven!

Cocoa Nymph
3739 W. 10th Avenue (at Alma Street)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Telephone: 604-222-4477