Upper West Side: Jacques Torres Unveils Thanksgiving Chocolates

Want a change from those those holiday dessert staples, apple pie and its Thanksgiving twin, pumpkin? Jacques Torres, with a shop on Amsterdam Avenue, can supply you with chocolate bars packed with seasonal flavors. There’s a white chocolate one laced with apple pie filling and a dark chocolate morsel that’s enriched with a layer of pumpkin puree.

Photo: Chocolate Springs.

These somewhat odd confections showed up at last week’s Chocolate Show, the annual display of the chocolatiers’ art that takes place at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea.

Chocolate makers collected in the spacious hall from all over the world. There were the large commercial operations like Godiva, which was showing off its new line of cupcakes. And there were small artisanal outfits, such as 2 Chicks with Chocolate and Roni-Sue’s Chocolates, which boasts a location in the Essex Street Market.

Among the best chocolates I sampled at the show were the exquisite bars from Chocolate Springs, a Lenox, MA confectioner.  Salty caramel chocolates are everywhere these days. But the ones from this Berkshire chocolate maker exploded with flavor. In fact, the distinctive taste of each ingredient shone through enhancing, rather than masking, the chocolate. Also sensational were Chocolate Spring’s passion fruit white chocolate ganache bars. Click here to order online.

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