I Asked 7 Chefs for Their Favorite Chocolate Bar, and the Winner Was a Total Surprise

AllRecipes.com ^ | November 16, 2025 | Karla Walsh

[Twotone]

Never heard of this chocolate. Might have to give it a try. Next runner up was Theo Chocolate. Never heard of that one, either.

[Ken522]

Tony’s Chocolonely is available at Walmart ... I’ve seen it there but never tried it ...

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I never heard of it either. Looked it up, apparently it’s made by some extremely woke Dutch company. I might try it if I ever see any for sale, but I’m not going to go to any trouble to get it.

[Political Junkie Too]

Tony's Chocolonely earns bonus points for its focus on fair-trade sourcing and paying cocoa farmers a higher price than the industry average for their beans.

-PJ

[GingisK]

I can assure you that the Snickers Bar is the Holy Grail of candy bars, closely followed by the Nestle’s Crunch. The Kit-Kat is a strong third.

[Robert DeLong]

Tony’s Chocolonely

Not only never heard of it, I 'vee never seen it in the stores.

Hershey's woeks juat fine for me though.

[Jeff Chandler]

[j.havenfarm]

I’ve heard some Europeans at Hershey’s tastes like vomit to them because of the butyric acid in it. I don’t taste that acidity- I guess my palate is just too uneducated. For my money Cadbury makes the best milk chocolate. Their sugar coated chocolate eggs at Easter are sublime. Not the ones that have the yellow glop meant to resemble a yolk. I mean the little solid chocolate eggs

[Blurb2350]

Yeah, it’s just the trendy “eco-consciousness” that put Tony’s at the top of the list. The wrapper is festooned with sanctimonious twaddle about “fair trade” and such. Otherwise it’s just very ordinary chocolate. It’s the cheapest option at Walmart, beating out even their own Best Goods chocolates in cost / ounce. That should tell you something.

[joshua c]

the most woke chocolate

[oldplayer]

My wife lived her high school years right up the hill from the Lindt factory in Kilchberg, Switzerland on Lake Zurich. Sentimental favorite and very nice.

[dfwgator]

[Organic Panic]

Last Easter I noticed they changed the Cadbury egg recipe and they were not at all good. Big crystals of sugar and overpowered by fake chocolate flavoring they were sneaking in. Way too waxy.

Maybe a bad batch. I use to love them.

[cherry]

Hershey choc almond bar...that’s it..,I’ve tried expensive choc and I always prefer hersheys.

[Grammy]

Dove milk chocolates, individually wrapped are the best. Not the bars.... they have too much wax in them so they keep their shape.

Doves ARE my drug of choice.

[Political Junkie Too]

I thought paying their farmers more for quality beans was a good thing.

-PJ

[UnwashedPeasant]

Tony’s Chocolonely is a Dutch company known for slave-free chocolate.

[fidelis]

Nestle’s Special Dark Chocolate (or any dark chocolate for that matter). If you don’t like dark chocolate (apparently some people don’t) and someone gives you some, send it to me.

[kosciusko51]

I’m partial to Sarris chocolate and Wilbur chocolate, but those are regional brands in Pennsylvania.

[tired&retired]

I had close family members that worked in the Hershey Chocolate factory. They couldn’t stand Hershey’s Chocolate.

The smell inside the factory was sickening to me.