Dark chocolate with orange and spices

Dark Chocolate with Orange, Ginger, and Cinnamon

Dolfin’s dark chocolate with orange and spices is a Belgian winter bar with 60% cocoa, 3% candied orange, and 2% spices consisting of ginger and cinnamon. The fruit here requires no added orange flavoring.

Dark chocolate with orange and spices is the spiciest of Dolfin’s three winter bars: 60% cocoa, containing 3% candied orange and a 2% spice blend of ginger and cinnamon. Unlike the summer orange bar from the same chocolatier, this bar needs no added orange flavoring; the candied fruit carries it on its own. Tart, fruity, warmly spiced—a bar that tastes of Advent without becoming overly sweet.

Tart cocoa, candied fruit, warm spice

When you break it, the cinnamon rises first, then the orange, and only afterward does the dark cocoa follow with its tart depth.

60% cocoa gives the bar seriousness and a soft bitterness, into which the candied orange settles like a juicy thread. The ginger provides a subtle sharpness that only emerges in the finish and lingers, while the cinnamon ties everything together. If you let the bar melt slowly, you experience three acts in succession: fruit, warmth, sharpness. A spiced cake in solid form, one might say.

Three percent orange and two percent spice

The candied orange makes up 3% of the bar, and the spice blend of ginger and cinnamon another 2%—figures that appear on the label and are easy to perceive on the palate.

What is missing is noteworthy: in the summer edition, natural orange flavoring is listed alongside the orange preparation; here, it is not. The candied fruit brings enough to the table, supported by ginger and cinnamon, which warm the orange from the other side. Both are classic winter spices, and together they carry the fruit through the dark mass.

This is how Dolfin has always worked: natural ingredients go directly into the Belgian cocoa mass, not as a topping. "The Art of Blending" is written on every package for this reason, and it fits this bar particularly well. You can find more tart varieties among our Belgian chocolate bars.

Belgian craftsmanship with a program behind it

Dolfin has been manufacturing in Baulers, south of Brussels, since 1989, founded by Michael and Jean-François Poncelet and led since 2007 by Jean-Jacques de Gruben.

Since 2021, the "Cocoa Act 4" program has bundled their work into four pillars: people, planet, quality, and transparency. Behind this are training sessions for producers, a clear no to deforestation, reforestation, and less plastic in packaging. Hats off.

Orange gondolas over the white slope

The paper of the winter edition shows a ski slope winding down the hillside between dark fir trees, with gondolas floating on their cables above.

And the gondolas glow orange, exactly the color of the candied fruit in the bar. Dolfin comes up with new designs for every winter edition, and this variety chose the slopes. Cold air, expansive light, a touch of wind—an image you like to look at once more before tearing open the paper.

A piece with a strong espresso, another with a glass of red wine—the tart, spicy edge goes well with both. Finely chopped, the bar gives a chocolate cake or a mousse a Christmas note, and it is at home with baked apples or punch anyway. You can find more from the chocolatier in the Dolfin assortment and in our large selection of chocolate.