Q. What brocho do you make on chocolate covered raisins or almonds? Thank you
A. Mishna Berura (204: 51) rules that on sugar-coated almonds, even when totally covered and when the quantity of sugar surpasses the almond, the brocho is Haetz. That is also the opinion of Shevet Halevy (4: 161, 7: 27), Madrich Brochos (5) and other Poskim.
In the case of chocolate covering, some Poiskim opine that you anyway recite Haetz on chocolate, although most disagree. (Minchas Shlomo 91:2, Shevet Halevy (ibid.) Teshuvos Vehanhogos (1: 187). Today it is customary to recite Shehakol on chocolate.
However, Igros Moshe (3: 31) maintains that on chocolate covered raisins, two brochos should be made.
Horav Shlomo Miller's Shlit"a opinion is that on chocolate covered fruits you follow the main component, if the raisins or other fruit are just a filling and the chocolate covering is thick and surpasses the quantity of fruit you recite Shehakol. If in doubt you also recite Shehakol. (See similar opinions in Devar Yehoshua 2: 115, Ketzad Mevorchim p.22, Share Brocho p. 552 et. al.)
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit"a
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