Tasting at Breed & Co. Central
Join us this Saturday, March 31 from 2-4 pm for a chocolate tasting at Breed & Co. in Central Austin! We’ll be sampling flavors from our Easter Truffle Collection, as well as selections from their chocolate case. We hope to see you there!
718 W. 29th St.
Austin, TX 78705
(512) 474-6679
Easter Delights
Springtime goodies for instant happiness. Our Easter Truffle Collection includes peanut butter, white chocolate, and marshmallow.
Our Easter Truffle Collection is available on our Online Shop.
New Store Partnerships
We absolutely love our partners. Fortunately, 2012 is looking exciting with some fantastic new stores who are now carrying Delysia Chocolatier’s products!
1209 East 11th Street
Austin, TX 78702
(512) 628-0168
www.hillsidefarmacy.com
211 Mercer Street
Dripping Springs, TX 78620
(512) 858-9463
www.drippinwine.com
The Mystery of White Chocolate
Image Courtesy of Thompson Poole Photography
It doesn’t look like chocolate, it doesn’t taste like chocolate, yet its name leads us to presume that it is chocolate. We naturally accept that this must be the case, because that’s what it has always been called.
But is white chocolate really chocolate?
Technically, the answer is no. In order for a product to be “chocolate” it must contain chocolate liquor (or cocoa solids). Even though white chocolate doesn’t contain this, it does have a connection to the cacao bean. This connection is found in one of white chocolate’s main ingredients, cocoa butter, and is probably the reason for allowance of the word chocolate in its name.
When making chocolate the following occurs:
- 1. Cacao beans are shelled and roasted.
2. The core is ground into a paste, which is chocolate liquor.
3. Chocolate liquor is the base of all chocolate products, and it is treated differently depending on its intended use.
- o When processing it for cocoa butter it is refined to a very small size
o When processing it for chocolate products the size can be a little larger
Since the focus here is on white chocolate and cocoa butter, the next steps for regular chocolate aren’t of much concern; however, the final step in making cocoa butter for white chocolate is:
- 4. A certain percentage of cocoa butter is removed from the chocolate liquor, and this can be kept in liquid or molded form.
Cocoa butter can then be mixed with milk, sugar, and some additional flavors, and the resulting product is white chocolate.
Despite white chocolate’s lack of cocoa solids, it is capable of being used and treated as regular chocolate – Delysia Chocolatier’s white chocolate truffles, bark, and molded chocolate are but a few examples.
So just because white chocolate isn’t technically chocolate, who says it can’t be enjoyed as if it were?
Tweet Your Vote for Delysia
Delysia Chocolatier has been invited by Ask.com to be featured at their SXSW SugarRush Lounge at the Courtyard Marriott Downtown Hotel. We will be there today from 4pm to 5pm.
SXSW badge holders visiting the SugarRush Lounge will be encouraged to tweet a vote for their favorite dessert by simply using the hashtag #AskSugarRush. For badge holders not on Twitter, they will be able to vote for Delysia at the event. Out of Austin’s top ten dessert vendors, including Delysia, that will be showcased at the SugarRush Lounge this weekend, there will be one winner based on Twitter and event votes. The winner with the most votes will receive a full page ad promoting its business and dessert in the Austin American Statesman.
Delysia is very excited about the opportunity to be featured in the Ask SugarRush Lounge, and we look forward to connecting with you on Saturday! Please remember to vote for Delysia after stopping by our table to enjoy a taste of one of our Handmade Chocolate Truffles.
Our truffles are made in the traditional Parisian style, each preservative-free with no mass production. We use fine quality chocolate and only the freshest ingredients so you can enjoy truffles near perfection. A few of the truffles being featured at the SugarRush Lounge include:
- Cigar Truffle
Robust, aromatic, and settling, this award winning truffle (1st place at the Texas Chocolate Festival) creates a taste of bittersweet chocolate with a delayed smoky, tingling finish. - Wasabi Raspberry Truffle
Spicy but sweet, this two-time award winning truffle (1st place at the Texas Chocolate Festival) has a taste of the sweetness of the raspberry chocolate on the start and quickly changes to a slight burn on the finish from the wasabi. - ‘The Salt Lick’ Habanero BBQ Sauce Truffle
The taste of Salt Lick BBQ enrobed in chocolate, we take The Salt Lick BBQ’s world famous habanero BBQ sauce and blend it with a 60% dark chocolate ganache. - Cabernet Sauvignon Truffle
Fruitful austerity, our award winning Cabernet Sauvignon truffle (1st place at the Texas Chocolate Festival) features Becker Vineyards Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon blended with 60% dark chocolate and dried cherries for added texture. - Sweet Tea Vodka with Orange Peel White Chocolate Truffle
Richly complex and heavily sweet, we blend Deep Eddy’s Sweet Tea Vodka with white chocolate spiked with orange peel – a perfectly sweet and refreshing truffle for a hot Austin day. - Firecracker Truffle
Explosive and spicy hot, this special truffle has been created especially for the SugarRush Lounge and is inspired by Austin’s music scene. This truffle takes our best selling cayenne truffle and adds the complexity of pop rocks. Experience the essence of Austin as you taste the dark chocolate, slowly sense the popping sensation of pop rocks, and finish with the delayed burn of cayenne.
