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Hot Chocolate, Turin, Italy
Turin, Milan, and Parma are famous for their before-dinner-drink-with-unlimited-free-food, also known as the aperitivo tradition. Turin is one of Italy’s major chocolate producers, probably best known for its gianduiotto chocolate. When you visit Turin which is Italy’s chocolate capital, sip a cioccolato caldo. This winter-buster comes very thick, hot, and agreeably bitter, topped generously with whipped cream. Sample bicerin, a layered hot-chocolate-and-espresso drink served in glass cups, available only in Turin, or try giandujotto, a foil-wrapped, chocolate-hazelnut candy.
If you are in New York city you must visit this beautiful bakery. It offers varieties of baked food and chocolates, cookies, cheesecakes. Magnolia Bakery is a chain of bakeries founded in New York City. The company’s U.S. locations include stores in New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Magnolia has four outlets—including the Bleecker Street branch featured in Sex and the City.
This cozy little 1950s-style bakery shot to fame when characters from the TV series “Sex and the City” stopped by for a cupcake-fueled sugar rush. As well as red velvet chocolate cupcakes, the bakery dispenses a rainbow of brightly colored cupcakes, plus banana pudding, cookies, cherry cheesecake, and brownies. The German chocolate cake is a high point.
Valrhona has been producing the world’s finest chocolate in the small village of Tain L’Hermitage, France since 1922. From the beginning, company founder and Pastry Chef Albéric Guironnet was dedicated to the creation of unique, artisan quality chocolate with complex, balanced and consistent flavors. Very few chocolatiers go so far as to become growers. However, in order to learn more about cocoa, oversee its quality, and guarantee its refinement, Valrhona has mastered all aspects of the industry. It is in that spirit that Valrhona decided to open and operate its own plantations, first in Venezuela, and more recently, in the Dominican Republic.
In wine-making country, on the Rhône’s left bank, visit the home of Valrhona chocolate, favored by many of the world’s leading chocolatiers and chefs. Unusually, the chocolate is made only with natural fat from cocoa butter; no vegetable fat is added. Chocoholics will enjoy the chance to sample or buy at the factory shop, while professional chefs can study at Valrhona’s École du Grand Chocolat, a chocolate-cookery school.
The chocolate factory of Maison Cailler is a paradise for lovers of chocolate. If you are in Switzerland or planning to visit Switzerland don’t forget to take a tour of Maison Cailer Chocolate factory. It is one of old chocolate factory in the world and offers varieties of chocolate. Tour the home of one of Switzerland’s oldest chocolate brands in the Swiss village of Broc, where Cailler has operated a plant since 1898. See how the famed chocolate is produced, then treat your senses with a generous sampling in the factory’s tasting room.
Maison Cailer’s the new generation of chocolate, Cailler Les Recettes de l‘Atelier, is crafted with carefully selected ingredients and made with an artisanal flair. Freshly roasted whole hazelnuts, crunchy almonds and pieces of fruit are embraced by finest chocolate. An authentic pleasure thanks to high-quality cocoa beans and visible ingredients for a delicious taste.
Sachertorte is a specific type of chocolate cake, or torte, invented by Austrian Franz Sacher in 1832 for Prince Wenzel von Metternich in Vienna, Austria. It is one of the most famous Viennese culinary specialties. A chocolate sponge cake, thinly coated by hand with apricot jam and then covered with dark chocolate icing, Sachertorte is named for its 1832 inventor, Franz Sacher gaining fame and fortune for himself. In 1876 his son Eduard opened Vienna’s Hotel Sacher.
The “Original” Sacher Torte has two layers of apricot jam between the outer layer of chocolate icing and the sponge base, while Demel’s “Eduard-Sacher-Torte” has only one. Additionally, the Sacher Torte has a more coarse grain of sponge whereas the Demel Torte sponge is denser and smoother. If you visit Vienna look for this cake and top your Sachertorte with unsweetened whipped cream and drink it with coffee or champagne.
Since 1926 GODIVA has been the premier maker of the fine Belgian chocolate. In addition to chocolates, Godiva also sells truffles, coffee, cocoa, biscuits, dippedfruits and sweets, chocolate liqueur, shakes, wedding and party favors and other items arranged in gift baskets. Godiva’s signature package is the Gold Ballotin (French for “small, cardboard box of chocolates”). Godiva also produces seasonal and limited edition chocolates with special packaging for major holidays.
Godiva, founded in Belgium in 1926, was purchased by the Turkish Yıldız Holding, owner of the Ülker Group, on November 20, 2007. Today the GODIVA brand is known – and loved – in over 80 countries around the world. Godiva owns and operates more than 450 boutiques and shops worldwide, where you can find a comprehensive selection of Godiva offerings. Godiva products are also available at finer department and specialty stores. Additionally, Godiva issues seasonal mail-order catalogs in North America and accepts phone and internet orders. From New York to Paris, Tokyo to Dubai, it is GODIVA that brings the best of Belgium to the world.
Cadbury is a British multinational confectionery subsidiary company wholly owned by American company Mondelēz International since 2012. It is the second largest confectionery brand in the world after Wrigley’s. Cadbury is headquartered in Uxbridge, Greater London and operates in more than fifty countries worldwide. It is famous for its Dairy Milk chocolate, the Creme Egg and Roses selection box, and many other confectionery products. One of the best known British brands, in 2013 The Telegraph named Cadbury among Britain’s most successful exports.
Major chocolate brands produced by Cadbury include the bars Dairy Milk, Crunchie, Caramel, Wispa, Boost, Picnic, Flake, Curly Wurly, Chomp, and Fudge; chocolate Buttons; the boxed chocolate brand Milk Tray; and the twist-wrapped chocolates Heroes.
The Hershey Company is the leading North American manufacturer of quality chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery and chocolate-related grocery products. Hershey’s kisses chocolates are very popular.Kisses are available in dark, milk and white chocolates !
In 1905, Milton S. Hershey opened the world’s first modern chocolate factory in the center of Derry Township in Pennsylvania, USA. Along with his factory, Mr. Hershey developed a model town for his employees complete with houses, businesses, and entertainment. Today, Hershey is a destination that welcomes visitors year-round to experience The Sweetest Place On Earth and enjoy our world-class theme park, Hersheypark, luxurious accommodations, dozens of restaurants, shops, and more!
