Pump Street Oat Milk Chocolate 60%

Since 2017, we have been seeing more and more chocolate brands featuring oat milk as the quintessential dairy-free milk alternative for vegan milk chocolate. The cereal ingredient is praised for the flavor and creaminess conferred to the chocolate as by conventional dairy milk. As the oat milk trend won’t come to a halt in 2020, […]

Solstice Chocolate Bundibugyo Uganda 70%

As I was tasting pure dark chocolate from single-origin Ugandan cacao—by maker Solstice Chocolate, my papillae couldn’t find appropriate descriptors for such an unparalleled flavor journey. A rollercoaster of sweet and earthy notes, void of any expectation of bitterness or astringency. Until news about the emerging Ugandan vanilla provisions on the specialty market popped up. […]

Cremino Chocolate: The Lesser-Known Version Of Gianduja

Directive 2000/36 of the European Union defines what Gianduja chocolate is, but no standard is in place for the lesser-known version called Cremino. This chocolate was created in the first half of the 19th century by Ferdinando Baratti and Edoardo Milano at their confectionery and pastry workshop in Turin, then sided by the enchanting Art-Nouveau-styled […]

Bonnat Chocolat au Lait Origine Asfarth 65%

With Africa and the Americas as the largest cocoa producing continents in the world buy cheap kamagra online , Asia and the East Pacific area is a region not to underestimate when it comes to quality in the latest years. Here, in fact, different micro-origins and producers specializing in fine aromatic cacao profiles, from the […]

Pump Street Brown Bread White Chocolate 40%

There are chocolate brands that jump on the bandwagon, looking for the cacao origin available in limited time or the trendy flavor of the year. Those who believe in showcasing their uniqueness by throwing local ingredients into their chocolate creations are the less ingenuous at the most. Very few create a brand around their specialty. […]

Chocolate Premiumization Fosters Packaging Rethinking

With premium chocolate representing the fastest-growing segment in all chocolate sales, packaging and communication will constitute increasingly refined levers for a brand that aspires to be remembered, not remain one of many. Between choosing colors, typefaces, graphic elements, and words to present each their storytelling, a brand serious about fine chocolate knows that smartly investing […]

Olive and Sinclair Buttermilk White Chocolate 45%

Finding a bar of white chocolate with buttermilk is not easy, despite the American standard of identity §163.124 on white chocolate allows freedom when it comes to dairy ingredients, such as: Cream, milkfat, butter Milk, dry whole milk, concentrated milk, evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk Skim milk, concentrated skim milk, evaporated skim milk, sweetened condensed […]

Cacao, The First Fine Craft Chocolate Magazine

Inspired by other specialty food and drink magazines, Lukas Reinhardt found out there was nothing entirely dedicated to the fine/craft chocolate industry yet. Yes, there are exceptional magazines about pastry and confectionery, but Cacao Magazine is a dream come true for featuring insightful stories of the movers and shakers of the fine craft chocolate industry […]