There are so many pleasures that I get from writing a food blog and one of the greatest has got to be the opportunities I’m given to review yummy food products … and then give them away to you guys! This week have I got one fantastic giveaway lined up for you! 🙂
Magic Mayan Chocolates are hand crafted by a family-run business based in Kilfenora, CountyClare, Ireland. The chocolate bars are ‘raw’ which means that they have been processed minimally, with temperatures not exceeding 45 degrees. This allows the cacao to retain all its natural goodness, including its high concentration of antioxidants (more information on the nutrient profile of raw chocolate can be found in this post, that I wrote back in 2011).
The Magic Mayan Chocolate bars are also dairy-free, gluten-free and soya-free, making them suitable for those with allergies. Since they contain no refined sugar, they are also suitable for diabetics.
The Magic Mayan chocolate bars are beautifully presented in a gold foil wrapper and a recycled paper cover. Upon opening the packaging, I was really impressed to find the chocolate bar itself has a beautiful Mayan design. The appearance of this chocolate bar really does have the ‘wow’ factor.
Texture-wise, the Magic Mayan chocolate is very different to any other raw chocolate that I’ve tasted before. Others (including my own home-made raw chocolates) have a smooth, melt in your mouth texture. In contrast, the Magic Mayan chocolate is crisp and crunchy. I’m guessing that this difference is due to the choice of sweetener. The Magic Mayan chocolate is sweetened with coconut palm sugar, whereas others (including my own) are sweetened with natural liquid sweeteners, such as Sweet Freedom and agave syrup.
The Magic Mayan bars come in nine different flavours and we were lucky enough to be sent three to try, titled ‘Christmas Cheer’, ‘Creamy Cashew’ and ‘Crazy Caramel’. Of the three, our favourite was the Christmas Cheer bar. This one was clearly something special.
Upon unwrapping this bar, you are hit with the wonderful fragrance of oranges. As well as orange oil, this bar contains caramelised almonds and mixed spice, so, for us, this bar truly does invoke the taste of Christmas.
Magic Mayan Chocolate Offer & Giveaway
So how would you like to try some Magic Mayan chocolate for yourself? The kind people over at Magic Mayan have arranged some great offers for my lovely followers 🙂
Firstly, if you order four or more bars, they will give you a free bar of your choice. At the checkout, simply type in the word ‘giveaway’ in the coupon code box and state the flavour of your chosen free bar.
If you would like to send some Magic Mayan chocolate as a gift, they will arrange personalised, handwritten gift tags on request at no extra charge.
And, they have also offered to give away three of their chocolate bars to my followers 🙂 This giveaway is international, so you are welcome to enter, wherever you live in the world! And what’s more, you get to choose which of their nine chocolate bars you’d like to try.
To enter, simply check out the Magic Mayan site and leave me a comment below this post, stating which of the bars you’d like to try.
There are two bonus ways of entering…
1st bonus entry: ‘Like’ Magic Mayan on Facebook and promote the giveaway on your FB page, with something like “I’ve entered the Magic Mayan Chocolate Giveaway at www.bitofthegoodstuff.com” then leave me a comment below to let me know you have done so.
2nd bonus entry: Tweet the giveaway: “I’ve entered the @GoodStuffSharon @MagicMayanchoc Giveaway at www.bitofthegoodstuff.com” then leave me a comment below to let me know you have done so.
The closing date for the giveaway is Sunday 16th December 2012 at midnight GMT.
Good luck everyone!
Sounds delicious. Put me down for some Christmas Cheer!
Commented on Magic Mayan page and promoted give away on my wall, would live to try Christmas Cheer, but any one would be fantastic. Thank you.
Yummmm! I’d love to try the Crazy Caramel! Have a sweet tooth, me 🙂
PS I also tweeted about the competition 🙂
I would love to try the almond one 🙂
Ooh, what a fun giveaway! And how fun to get to sample the different flavors! I would first jump at the caramel one because caramel anything is my true weakness. 🙂 But they all sound delicious!
These look fantastic, I would love to try the crazy caramel!
My mouth is watering just reading this! I’d love to try the Creamy Cashew variety 🙂
I’ve tweeted the giveaway
All I can see at the online shop is the “Christmas Cheer” bar. But I would love to try the Crazy Caramel bar mentioned above.
I don’t have a Facebook account, so this can be my only entry.
The creamy cashew sounds yummy.
The caramel flavor sounds amazing!
Magic Mayan raw chocolate is AMAZING! I would love to try the Christmas Cheer bar. Sounds so delicious!
I’d love to try the caramel one!
I’ve already liked them on FB and I just shared the giveaway on my profile as Kamila !
Surprise me!
I’ve promoted the giveaway on FB x
I’ve promoted giveaway on fb
I’ve tweeted the giveaway in twitter
ooohh!! they look too good. i would love to try the christmas cheer chocolate,looks different,would love to try it ^-^ who would say no to chocolate?? 😀
i liked it on facebook.
Awesome giveaway! Don’t know how I missed it until now. These chocolate bars look incredible. Hands-down, I’ve got to go with the Black Velvet bar! I just hope I don’t get hooked because I’m not sure if I’ll be able to get these in the U.S. 😉
I just tweeted about the giveaway!! This chocolate seriously looks so cool. I love the carvings in the bars – not your average squares or rectangles. 😀
I’d love to try the christmas cheer bar, sounds amazing!
I also tweeted 🙂
Christmas cheer sounds gorgeous !
Fabulous Giveaway as you can never go wrong with chocolate! The Christmas Cheer flavour sounds amazing.
I tweeted the giveaway, too!
I would like to try christmas cheer!
I tweeted!
I would also love to try Christmas Cheer!
Christmas Cheer sounds great!
I’d like some Christmas Cheer please.
Christmas Cheer sounds yummy.
Oh nuts I didn’t read this fast enough to enter.
Oh well the best to those who were on the ball and followed your rules, the chocolate really does look delicious!
Really sorry Rachel that you missed the deadline for this giveaway. As I’d stated the 16th, I thought I better to stick to the rules. But not to worry as I’m planning another raw chocolate giveaway for January 🙂 I’ll make sure I give you plenty of advance warning xx
Ok so I hedged my bets and tweeted the giveaway anyway.
If nothing else maybe it will bring more traffic to your lovely site 🙂
I also liked them on Facebook, but then they look like a pretty cool company so I wouldn’t mind seeing what they are up to.
http://www.facebook.com/jillian.richardson.509/posts/116366378534371
Put on FB!
Tweeted! @Irishchick113