Celebrate Easter with Divine Chocolate

Easter is quickly approaching on April 20th, and as you prepare your Easter baskets, you'll want to include the newest 3.5 oz chocolate bars from Divine Chocolate - 38% Milk Chocolate with Toffee and Sea Salt ($3.99) and Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Truffle ($3.99).  There's also 38% Milk Chocolate with Whole Almonds ($4.89), Dark Chocolate with Whole Almonds ($4.89), 70% Dark Chocolate with Mango & Coconut ($3.99). The 38% Milk Chocolate with Toffee and Sea Salt is my favorite, with the perfect amount of sea salt to balance the sweet toffee crunch. 

Divine Chocolate is co-owned by the farmers of Kuapa Kokoo Farmers Cooperative in Ghana. To learn more about their commitment to fair trade, check out recipes and shop the online store, visit divinechocolate.com.

- Kim Weling

Divine Chocolate Beer and Chocolate Pairing Guide

Check out 9 favorite Divine Chocolate bars that Beer Activist Chris O'Brien paired with local beers from the New York City area. Looks like I'm going to have to trek over to SingleCut Beersmiths (with the Divine Chocolate White Chocolate with Strawberries in my refrigerator) since they serve up a beer with my name on it!  To learn more about Divine Chocolate and check out other pairing recommendations, visit divinechocolate.com.

Divine Chocolate Hearts for Valentine's Day

If you're looking for a chocolate fix or small gift for Valentine's Day, I recommend Divine Chocolate White Chocolate & Strawberry, Milk Chocolate and 70% Dark Chocolate Hearts. I don't even really eat white chocolate but after eating one of the White Chocolate & Strawberry Hearts, I couldn't stop eating them! They are made with pieces of real strawberry crisp, added that extra crunch to its creamy texture.

Divine Chocolate is made only with the finest quality Fair Trade cocoa beans from Kuapa Kokoo, a cooperative of smallholder farmers in Ghana.

I've always found Divine Chocolate to be addictive, especially my favorite, the Milk Chocolate with Spiced Cookies holiday bar.

The chocolate hearts are available in a 3.5 oz. box for $6.99 at shop.divinechocolateusa.com.

- Kim Weling

Divine Chocolate Celebrates Fair Trade Month

On October 12th, I joined Divine Chocolate for Chocolate, Cocktails & Beauty, as they celebrated Fair Trade Month at Provocateur at Hotel Gansevoort, on Hudson Street between 13th and Gansevoort.

I happily indulged in Divine Chocolate's chocolate tasting and quickly identified my favorites. At the top of my list is the limited edition Milk Chocolate with Spiced Cookies. It is perfect for the holiday season and tastes like gingerbread cookies! I've never had a chocolate bar like this so I find it to be very unique! My second favorite was the 70% Dark Chocolate Covered Salted Fudge.

To go along with the Divine chocolate tasting was a Divine chocolate martini, which included FAIR, Quinoa Vodka, Divine chocolate syrup, white curacao, 2 slices of orange skin and grated Divine dark chocolate - Yum!

I then checked out the mark. body care that cares line. All four products in the line - crème, lotion, cleanser and balm are formulated with Fair Trade Certified™ ingredients, which promote fair prices, safe working conditions and funds for community development for the millions of farmers who grow and source products like Mexican honey, Indian white tea, Peruvian cocoa butter and Egyptian hibiscus.

The gift bag included mark. The Big Fix 15-in-1 Benefits Balm (can't wait to try it!), along with mark. Lipclick Full Color Lipstick in shade Baby Luv and Divine Chocolate's 70% Dark Chocolate with Ginger & Orange bar.

What a great event! Thank you for inviting me!

- Kim Weling

Divine Chocolate is a pioneering Fair Trade chocolate company, owned in part by the farmers of Kuapa Kokoo in Ghana. Since 1998 Divine has delighted chocolate lovers with quality chocolate made from the 'best of the best' 100% Fair Trade cocoa from Ghana.

The farmers of Kuapa Kokoo, a farmers' cooperative of 45,000 members, supply the cocoa for each bar of Divine. They get paid a Fair Trade price for their beans and receive a social premium that the cooperative invests in schools, clean drinking water, medical clinics, and women's entrepreneurship projects such as batik and soap making. Plus, as owners they get share of the profits, a say in the company, and a voice in the global marketplace.