Vosges Haut Chocolat – This Ain’t Your Mama’s Easter Chocolate! #sponsored

Vosges Haut Chocolat is for the Foodie in your Life!

I was lucky enough to receive some samples of Vosges Haut Chocolat’s Easter collection and was blown away. First of all the packaging screams Spring and has a really pop-art modern vibe with bright colors and interesting themes. I received the Petit Nest of Peanut Butter Chocolate Eggs, Wild Strawberry & Rose Wandering Rabbits, Sugar Cookie Bomba Bites, and The Ostara Ensemble. I say this is for a foodie because this chocolate is made with great care, quality ingredients, and some of the most unique flavor combinations. 

The Theme of the Easter Collection

The goddess Ostara is celebrated by all in her orbit for bringing the womb of spring, filled with its beauty and abundance. She is a symbol that winter has passed and that longer days lie ahead. Her sacred hare, Lepus, who legend says was once a bird, was imbued by Ostara with the magic of laying eggs. The eggs were colored in bright hues by her minions of rabbits and given to children in birds’ nests; perhaps the predecessor of the Easter basket. This spring season, we celebrate Ostara who reminds us that after the dark comes the light, gifting renewal and rebirth along with it.

The Chocolates

Petit Nest of Peanut Butter Chocolate Eggs

Let’s face it, there are some classic flavor combinations like chocolate and peanut butter. Even a haut chocolatier knows you don’t mess with that. It’s familiar and classic. What I loved is that these were so smooth and velvety. The inside wasn’t the icky uber-sweet peanut butter mush inside of a Reece’s, it was soft and also has chocolate mixed with it so you get the perfect balance of peanut butter and chocolate. Don’t be afraid of the yellow exterior, it’s colored with turmeric. That was a nice touch to me. I don’t want anything artificial in my chocolate.

Wild Strawberry & Rose Wandering Rabbits

These were the second to go, and I blame my husband. He may be more of a chocolate fiend than me! I got to try one and by the time I made it to the box he had eaten all of these. The Wild Strawberry and Rose flavor inside was so unique, perfect for Spring, and it goes with this beautifully curated Easter collection. Rose can be a scary flavor, too much and it can be soapy. In this case, it was such a beautiful a delicate balance. Sometimes you can bite into a chocolate and there are so many flavors that you cannot taste them all. Sometimes it can be a cacophony and not a symphony. This my friends was a true symphony! It reminds me of something the chocolatier herself says, “…when ingredients are combined in just the right way, they become greater than the sum of their parts.” 

That’s right this is a woman-owned business and they have one bad-ass female chocolatier. That’s something that really spoke to me as a female entrepreneur myself. 

Ostara Ensemble

This is the masterpiece of the Easter collection! This set celebrates the goddess Ostara for bringing the womb of spring, filled with its beauty and abundance. This set definitely shows that. There are so many different flavors incorporated into each chocolate yet they work together to form a cohesive collection for Spring. There are fruits, berries, matcha, and so much more. All the flavors encompass the fertility of the season and ingredients that just taste like Spring. The flavor combinations were just so novel and creative. I mean plum hibiscus and rose water, wow! 

This collection is a treat for many of the senses. Obviously, the taste has the most to feast on, but the packaging is so colorful allowing for the eyes to partake as well. I love how interactive the chocolate key makes this. It’s also colorful BUT easy to read and understand. There is also a tactile quality in the scale of the box and the beautiful metallic embossing on the packaging. 

I would recommend any true food-lover try this collection! Bonus points for showing up to Easter Dinner with this! But nope, this is not for Easter Egg Hunts, this is to be savored by those who will understand the crafting that went into this. 

Sugar Cookie Bomba Bites

These were a nice bite-sized white chocolate treat, I loved the toadstool shapes, the bits of cookie for texture, and the lavender-colored sugar. This is one I think kids would enjoy. They’re so playful and the perfect size to get that fix of sweet we all crave.