Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Unique, exotic combinations and chocolate pairings

Chocolates are sweet creations to enjoy many individuals, both as a dessert or as an energy bar to tide you over before the next meal. There are several unique varieties of chocolates to choose from: plain, dark, semi-sweet, bitter, milk or white. Several exotic chocolates are paired or in combination with one, two or more ingredients such as nuts, mint, caramel, nougat and fruit, among many others. With all these different types and flavors of chocolate, which canYou ask? Well, if you are a self-proclaimed chocoholic, or a connoisseur of chocolate, you say it's definitely more chocolate creations and pairings, you have not tried.

To tickle your taste buds and give you some chocolate pairings fantasies exotic combinations of chocolate and you want to try the next time you can try a chocolate treatment:

Exotic Truffle & Bars


Bissinger's Green Tea GanacheTruffles with Lemon Grass BT McElrath's Epicurean Truffle Selection Knipschildt's Green Tea Truffles Candy Chicago milk exotic Cleopatra Chocolate Set: milk solids with Ancho Chili (mild, smoky), cloves and cinnamon Pink Heart: white sugar, fragrant petals Purple Jewel Pink: white infused with lavender honey and Red Heart: White with Chai (black tea, honey and spices) infused Silver Jewel: solid white with spices: white with Lady Grey tea (bergamot) White Cleopatra infused(Anise, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves) Acorn Dark: white infused with ginger ginger Buddha: solid dark Pyramid ginger with milk: milk solids with the fan Ceylon cinnamon silver: white infused with green tea leaves White Pyramid: solid white with cardamom
Serve with chocolate

Wine & Chocolate

dark chocolate, bitter-sweet and lovable go best with:


Syrah Tawny Port Zinfandel Banyuls Cognac Armagnac Beaujolais Bordeaux CabernetSauvignon Grenache Malbec Marsala Mas Amiel Muscat Orange Classic Ruby Port

The milk chocolate is better with


Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc Riesling Dessert Wine Tokaji Hungarian Mas Amiel Rouge & Blanc Vintage Moscato / Muscat Tawny Port White Chocolate goes best with:

Gewurtzraminer Mas Amiel Vintage Champagne Blanc Muscat / Moscato Riesling
Chocolate & dark chocolate truffles with the best taste CHEESE:


Sheep's milk cheese from cow's milk with white chocolateTruffles taste best with

Cow's milk goat cheese

milk chocolate truffles with the best taste


Goat cheese made from cow's milk
BEER & Chocolate


Fruity, spicy beers go well with chocolate, but with each match this truffle flavor of berries or chocolate bar with dried fruits and Amber Ale is the best option. Malti golden couple of beers, flavored malt truffle, gourmet malt balls and chocolate and nut combinations. Each beergoes well with good quality dark chocolate containing 52% to 72% cocoa mass.
TEA & Chocolate

Dark chocolate goes well with tea following:


Assam, Darjeeling, Earl Grey Oolong Pu-erh Gyokuro milk or white chocolate goes well with tea following:


Darjeeling Oolong Dragon Well, Sencha Yunnan

As you can see above, all samples are chocolate bars a long way from just hot chocolate and confectionery. InIn reality, there is a whole unexplored world of unique and exotic recipes and pairings with chocolate. You could also think of you!

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