Tag: Couverture Chocolate

Compound vs Couverture – which should you use?

There are a number of popular ‘chocolate’ bars which are now having to change their title to ‘chocolate-flavoured’ bars. This includes white KitKats and Digestives, as well as milk Penguin and Toffee Crisp bars. Due to the rising price of cocoa, businesses are changing their formulas to include more vegetable fat than cocoa butter. This creates a chocolate-flavoured compound. While chocolate snobs may turn their nose up at this, compound chocolate can be much easier to work with than couverture, depending on what you plan to do with it. Meanwhile, couverture also has uses that vary distinctly from compound. It offers a richer taste, a more premium finish and a more traditional chocolate experience.

The trick is knowing when to use each one.

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Criollo Chocolate: The Rare Cocoa Experience

Domori Criollo Canoabo Dark 62% Couverture Drops (Venezuela Origin)

In the 1990s, the incredibly precious Criollo chocolate cocoa bean faced the threat of extinction. Due to biological fragility, low crop yields and industrialisation of cocoa, global production dropped to just 0.01% of the world’s total supply. Gianluca Franzoni, founder of Domori Chocolate Company, recognised this decline and launched a major preservation effort – rescuing the rare bean from its demise.

Over thirty years later, Criollo remains the “holy grail” for high-end chocolatiers, boasting complex notes of creaminess, spice and fruitiness. Now, through partnership with Domori, CFW introduce Domori’s B2B professional couverture range to the UK market as their exclusive distributor. This opportunity widens accessibility to UK chocolatiers, pastry chefs and dessert businesses alike.

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