Name: Explorer Club #303: SUGAR
Brand: Milou Chocolate Co.
SKU: EC: SUGAR
Price: 39.19 CAD
Availability: OutOfStock

Explorer Club #303: SUGAR

Sugar is the silent but dominant force behind nearly every chocolate bar you've tasted. In most, however, it’s been refined, bleached, stripped to nothing but sweetness—engineered for uniformity, pure and simple. This box flips the script. These sugars don’t just sweeten; they shape flavour. Muscovado, dark and sticky, retains its molasses-rich depth. Piloncillo, unrefined and raw, packs caramel complexity. Dates, cultivated for millennia, offer a natural, nuanced sweetness. Less processed, more flavourful—they're better for your palate and your body.

$39.19

$43.54

Explorer Club #303: SUGAR

$39.19

$43.54

Metiche Soconusco w/ Piloncillo 68%

Producer Country: Mexico
Cocoa: Mexico
Weight: 70 g

Piloncillo is a type of unrefined whole cane sugar traditionally used in Mexican cuisine. It is made by boiling and evaporating sugar cane juice, which is then left to harden. The result is a dense, dark brown substance with a rich, caramel-like flavour and a deep molasses undertone. Unlike refined white sugar, piloncillo retains its natural nutrients as well as inherent notes of wood and vanilla. Its sweetness is noticeably different, offering hints of rum, coconut, cinnamon, and dulce de leche. Combined with the chocolate, flavours of Kahlua, fudge, and dark toffee also emerge. What a delicious treat!

Karuna Date Sugar 80%

Producer Country: Italy
Cocoa: Dominican Republic
Weight: 60 g

This organic cocoa is sourced from 180 farms in the El Cibao region of Duarte. Öko Caribe ferments and dries the beans in the village of Pimentel in San Francisco de Macorís. Like its sister bar, Karuna Öko Caribe Dominican Republic 80%, this is one big, brooding dark chocolate with no short supply of tannin and coffee flavours. The date sugar adds a dried fruit finish (prune, raisin, or, dates, obviously) that marries beautifully with the cocoa qualities. It has a chewy texture that properly coats the entire mouth in rich, bitter, dark chocolatey goodness.

Kasama Moreyna Muscovado 64%

Producer Country: Canada
Cocoa: Phillippines
Weight: 55 g

Made from sugar cane juice, muscovado is a sticky, coarse, unrefined sugar that - unlike granulated or other brown sugars - retains its molasses, giving it its distinctive tone, taste and texture. This unique bar is neither dark nor white chocolate, but a unique "tanned" creation made from Philippine muscovado sugar, cacao butter, milk powder, and roasted Philippine cacao nibs, which are ground into the chocolate and sprinkled on the back. Its name combines “Morena,” a term historically used to describe Filipinas with tanned or brown skin, and “Reyna,” the Spanish and Tagalog word for “Queen.” The bar's tanned skin colour lies halfway between typical dark and white chocolate. It impeccably blends roasted cocoa with milky sweetness, fruity sugarcane, and hints of dried fruit, nutmeg, and molasses. This is hands-down one of the most innovative bars we carry, both conceptually and in its execution. Plus it's frickin' delicious.