Chocolates are sweet creations that many people enjoy, whether as a dessert or a snack-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. Some exotic chocolates are paired with a combined or two or more ingredients such as nuts, mint, caramel, nougat and fruit, among many others. With all these different types and flavors of chocolate, you can askdone? Well, if you are a self-proclaimed chocoholic, a chocolate connoisseur will tell you, in any case, there are more chocolate creations and pairings are, you've never tried.
To your taste buds tingle and chocolate fantasies here are some exotic chocolate pairings and combinations you may want to give a try next time to find a chocolate treat:
Exotic Chocolate Truffles & Bars
Bissinger's Green Tea ganache with truffleLemongrass BT McElrath's Gourmet Truffle Selection's Knipschildt Sweetened Green Tea Truffles Milk Chocolate Candy Chicago's Exotic Set Cleopatra milk with solid Ancho chili (mild, smoky), cloves and cinnamon Pink Heart: White with rose petals and aromatic Jewel Purple: White with lavender and honey-infused Red Heart: White with Chai infused (infusion of black tea, honey and spices) Silver Jewel: White with Lady Gray Tea (Bergamot) White Cleopatra: White solid with spices (anise, cinnamon,Nutmeg, ginger, cloves) Dark Acorn: White infused with ginger ginger Buddha: Dark sound infused with ginger milk Pyramid: Milk solids with Ceylon cinnamon Silver Fan: White with green tea leaves White Pyramid: White solid with cardamom
Chocolate pairings
WINE & CHOCOLATE
Dark, bittersweet and semi-sweet chocolate goes best with:
Zinfandel, Syrah Tawny Port Armagnac Cognac Banyuls Beaujolais Bordeaux Cabernet SauvignonMas Amiel Grenache Malbec Marsala Classic Orange Muscat Ruby Port
Milk Chocolate goes best with
Merlot Riesling Sauvignon Blanc dessert wine Tokaji Hungarian Mas Amiel Vintage Rouge & Blanc Muscat / Moscato Tawny Port White Chocolate goes best with:
Gewurtzraminer Champagne Mas Amiel Vintage Blanc Muscat / Moscato Riesling
Taste of cheese and chocolate truffles, dark chocolate is best with:
White chocolate cheese from cow's milkTruffles taste best with
Cheese made from cow's milk goat's cheese
Milk chocolate truffles taste best with
Goat cheese from cow's milk
BEER & CHOCOLATE
Go fruity, spicy beer with a good chocolate, but this pair with a berry-flavored truffles or chocolate with dried berries and amber beer is the best option. Malti golden couple beers with malt-flavor truffles, gourmet malt balls and chocolate and nut combinations. No beerwell, with good quality dark chocolate contains 52% to 72% cocoa mass.
Tea & Chocolate
Dark chocolate goes well with the following teas:
Assam Darjeeling Earl Gray Gyokuro Oolong Pu-erh milk or white chocolate goes well with the following teas:
Darjeeling Oolong Dragonwell Sencha Yunnan
As we can see from all the above examples, have a long way from chocolate are just hot chocolate and sweets. In fact, there are aunexplored world of unique and exotic recipes and pairings with chocolate. One could even think of one, himself!
