Why should kids have all the fun at Easter? To even the playing field, I’m giving away some more of those lovely Chugach Chocolates.
The company is a “bean-to-bar” chocolatier in our neighborhood, specializing in dark chocolate. It features some interesting flavor combos, including but not limited to Alaskan kelp and cayenne and Alaskan birch syrup toffee. One of their current limited editions is dark chocolate with spruce tip/lingonberry marshmallows. Not making that up!
You can see why their slogan is “traditionally made for the modern mouth” – if someone had offered me kelp chocolate 50 years ago, I would have run screaming from the room. But it’s pretty tasty stuff.
Here’s a look at what’s up for grabs – winner’s choice:
Mini-Bar Variety Box: Teeny li’l tasting samples of bars made with Prince William Sound sea salt, locally made potato chips, espresso beans, pink Himalayan sea salt, and those birch toffee and kelp/cayenne varieties. Note: Because these bars are small, the winner gets two boxes.
Chocolate 101 Flight Tasting Kit: Learn the why of chocolate flavors with this gift. You get two 1.75-ounce bars of Prince William Sound sea salt and Alaskan birch toffee plus one .88-ounce bar of single origin dark chocolate. They throw in a trio of tasting sheets and tasting sheet instructions, so you can sound as foodie as you wanna be.
If you don’t celebrate Easter, consider it a “welcome to spring” gift to yourself, or to someone else. Personally, I’d be tempted to keep it a secret from family and friends and just enjoy the goodies in solitude.
Here’s how to enter
Are your taste buds begging you to enter this giveaway? Fortunately for them, it’s a pretty simple task – and you can enter more than once.
To put yourself in the running, do one or more of the following:
- Leave a general comment below (one per customer)
- Follow me via Feedly
- E-follow me by using the “get new posts by email” box at the top right of this page (towards the bottom of the page if you’re on mobile), or using the little green envelope icon at the end of this article)
- Sign up to follow me on Twitter
- Sign up to follow me on Facebook
Please leave a separate comment for each entry (e.g., “Follow you on Twitter” or “Subscribed by e-mail”).
The deadline to enter is 6 p.m. PDT Tuesday, April 1. (No foolin’!) If I don’t hear from the winner by 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 2, I will have the random number generator choose a new name.
Note: Due to the high cost of international shipping, this giveaway is limited to residents of the United States.
Hi Donna! Wonderful giveaway! I follow you!
please put my name in the hat. I never heard of tasting sheets before?
Dark chocolate yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Yummy, I love chocolate. I subscribe by email and have been a long time follower.
Truly nothing better than amazing chocolate.
Thanks again, Donna, for a delectable giveaway!
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I often find the stranger the combination the better the taste. I have been getting and enjoying and learning from your emails for a long time!
I follow you via email. And anybody I share these chocolates with had better be very, very nice to me for a while! 🙂
We were there at least twice last Feb. on our visit! I bought several to give my friends when we returned home. The intended recipients never saw them . . . how I miss our snowy forays to their main store! Would love to taste that wonderful chocolate again . . . and you know I follow you!
They now have official tours, with lots of chocolate tastings thrown in, for $15. Am thinking of putting one (well, the promise of one) into Linda’s birthday bag.
Thanks for the chance to win!
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These sound delicious and unique!
Hi I follow you on email. I’m a chocolate lover and would love to share Alaskan chocolate with my husband and friends.
Chocolate is my addiction! I LOVE it in all forms. Thank you for an amazing giveaway!
Thanks for the giveaway, Donna! I follow you via email
I follow on Facebook and have been a fan of your frugal posts for many, many years! I’d love to try that chocolate.
I just checked the box to receive email notice of new posts as well!
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What are tasting sheets?
I’ve never seen one, but assume they’re pages explaining how the chocolate was made and what flavors you might detect.
Sounds delicious
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I love chocolate! Long time reader.
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I follow you on Facebook.
Oh what a cool treat! I follow you via email, which always makes me happy to see it in my inbox 😎
I’m just crazy enough to try kelp chocolate!
It’s good! Reminds me of the texture of a Nestle’s Crunch Bar.
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I love chocolate and these sound interesting.
I follow you on Facebook too.
Yum, kelp! I found out about this from following you on Feedly.
Dark chocolate with sea salt…my weakness.
This has to be the most delicious giveaway. Ever! 🙂
I follow you on twitter, thanks for the opportunity to win such a unique prize!
Are you going to join Bluesky? I hope you do, it’s really, really nice there!
I am in fact on Bluesky. Thanks for reminding me to add this to the list.
My handle there is @donnafreedman.bsky.social
I subscribe by email, thank you!
Hi Donna! Thank you for doing this give-away 😊 I follow you via email on follow.it
Perfect for sharing. Thank you, Donna.
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I follow you on fb, just in case I miss my notification where I follow you by email.
I love all the goodies this business has to offer. Thanks for letting us have an opportunity to win some tastiest 😋
In my head, kelp + chocolate would be like sea salt chocolate, which I love.. I wonder.. Thank you for the giveaway chance!
Chocolate ,,, my favorite!
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Anything with lingonberries in it sounds delicious to me. Swedish on my mother’s side so grew up with them on rice pudding. And I’ve also never met a chocolate I didn’t like. Thanks for the chance to win.
They grow wild here, and are referred to as “lowbush cranberries.” I have a wonderful quick bread recipe that uses orange juice and butter instead of milk and oil; the orange and lingonberry flavors mesh really well. The only issue is picking them! They’re small and grow on plants that are only a couple inches tall, so you really have to want those berries to spend hours crawling around on the ground.
Dark chocolate has health benefits, right? Alaskan birch toffee… yum!
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I also follow on fb. Thank you!
Donna, what a thoughtful (and timely) giveaway! Please enter me, and if I win, I look forward to welcoming spring with delicious chocolate. Yay, spring! 😀
lol you would have run screaming from the room 😀
sounds delicious I’m in; I get your emails.
I love chocolate! Please enter me. Love your blog, Donna. Happy Spring!
I’m drooling reading those descriptions of the different chocolates you’re giving away! Love it!
I follow you on email and Facebook and I have your playbook for tough times book!
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Chocolate: The perfect gift for every occasion. Is it your birthday? Have some chocolate! Recovering from a breakup with your sweetie? Have some chocolate! Getting over a bout of some unidentifiable ailment? Have some chocolate! Just ate an entire box of chockies by yourself? Have some chocolate!
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Long time reader. Enjoyed the Chocolates during my visits to Alaska. Would love to taste that sweet dark goodness again!
Never found a bit of chocolate that I didn’t like! Count me in! So nice to see a new posting here.
Yes, Donna, I would love some chocolate!
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Sounds wonderful, thank you!
It all sounds delicious, thanks, Donna, for your generosity.
The birch toffee sounds especially amazing. Always up for trying new chocolates, even with a bit of kelp thrown in!
chocolate always wins!