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Wednesday, April 18. 2012

The best chocolate

For chocolate for baking or candy-making, I use World Wide Chocolate's site for their baking chocolate section. That's where many pastry chefs get their chocolate. There's a right chocolate for any culinary need. It's best to avoid products with under 70% cacao.


For the best chocolate candies, La Maison du Chocolat is probably the best source in the US. Their truffles are extraordinary.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Food and Drink, Our Essays at 15:51 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Doc, You're rolling today! I'll check out your chocolate store, and here's one for you (although you probably know of them). I drool at the thought of bacon and chocolate.

https://www.vosgeschocolate.com/

Sorry, the url tag isn't working for me today - cut and paste!
#1 Steve in CT on 2012-04-18 18:23 (Reply)
An inexpensive way to eat the best-tasting food in the world:

1. Don't eat anything for five days.
2. Eat anything.
3. You'll swear it's the best-tasting anything in the world.

Sometimes the solution is too obvious.
#2 PacRim Jim (Link) on 2012-04-18 19:18 (Reply)
The best chocolate in the world is made in the US....

http://shop.scharffenberger.com/

You're very welcome!
#3 Jake Finnegan (Link) on 2012-04-19 01:46 (Reply)
It's wasteful snobbery to use good chocolate in baked goods. The texture and flavor are influenced by other ingredients. The subtleties of the chocolate will be obscured.

I do almost all my cake baking with dutch cocoa - using small amounts of complementary spices, and other flavors like coffee or almond paste, to enhance the cocoa. This is similar to the approach taken in Mexican and other Latin cuisines - for example, Mexican chocolate cake combines cocoa and cinnamon.

For mousses and other recipes that require melted chocolate, any bittersweet chocolate with 60% cocoa solids is fine. Again - you are modifying the flavor with cream, eggs, added vanilla/liqueur and other stuff.

Save the good chocolate for eating straight.
#4 Ben David on 2012-04-19 11:52 (Reply)
La maison du chocolat??
What do you think they mean when they state: "Creator" [sic] of legendary chocolates. Those quotation marks around "creator' make me leery.
Kind of snooty for my taste, and likely very expensive.
For my money, you can't get better than Munson's Chocoloates, made in Bolton, CT.

http://www.munsonschocolates.com/
#5 tomaig on 2012-04-20 12:53 (Reply)
I really like this blog it is useful for everyone. Thanks for the information you shared. Keep posting
#6 personalized chocolate (Link) on 2013-07-05 06:41 (Reply)

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