Handcrafted Bean-to-Chocolate Goodness: 9th & Larkin Review
A few days ago, I was sent a package of chocolates from 9th & Larkin, a bean-to-bar chocolate shop in the Bay Area that makes handcrafted chocolates in small batches. Safe to say, I am more than lucky enough to have tried these chocolates. Growing up, my dad used to bring my sisters and me chocolates from all over the world on his work trips; this has given me the advantage of tasting as many different chocolates over the years. Throughout my chocolate encounters, I realized the more I try, the more I can cut through the noise, and 9th & Larkin was a whole new experience worth trying. I can definitively say 9th & Larkin chocolates deliver what they promised their customers. Each batch is handcrafted with the highest quality cacao beans sourced from a single region and uses as few as two ingredients to achieve the purest flavor profile possible. They start with raw cacao beans, carefully selected, sorted, roasted, winnowed, ground, refined, tempered, molded, and wrapped eac
