Valrhona Chocolate Baking Blocks
Couverture Block Chocolate
Baking blocks are a classic way to add chocolate flavor to baked goods and other desserts. These large chocolate blocks are made with the perfect flavor and consistency to give just the right amount of chocolate goodness to any dessert. They’re also made in large sizes to ensure that any baker has the perfect amount of chocolate for all of his or her baking projects. In order to achieve a stronger chocolate flavor and a smooth texture, baking chocolate blocks contain a higher amount of cocoa butter than other forms of baking chocolate. Shop the selection of Valrhona chocolate baking blocks to find the perfect ingredient for your next decadent chocolate dessert creation.
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Manjari Madagascar 64% Dark Couverture Chocolate Blocks
Tangy & Fruity
Manjari unleashes the fresh, tangy notes of red berries, with a delicate finish recalling toasted nuts and dried fruit.
Smitten with the powerful, uniquely flavorsome beans that its sourcing teams uncovered in Madagascar, in 1990, Valrhona decided to declare its love by creating Manjari.
Manjari is the product of a long-running partnership between Valrhona and the Millot plantation in northern Madagascar.
Caraïbe Dark Couverture Chocolate Blocks
Balanced & Roasted
Caraïbe is a perfectly balanced blend. Subtle sweetness and notes of roasted dried fruit give way to a long finish of delicate almond, roasted coffee and oak flavors.
Caraïbe is a subtle blend of cocoa aromatic profiles typical of the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Jamaica and Togo. These profiles are blended to obtain Caraïbe’s unique and consistent flavor, which is both balanced and roasted. Created in 1988, Caraïbe is wonderfully balanced chocolate with a mellow, well-rounded flavor. Thanks to its great equilibrium Caraïbe has become L’École Valrhona’s benchmark product.
Guanaja Dark Couverture Chocolate Blocks
Bittersweet & Elegant
In 1986, Valrhona created the world’s bitterest chocolate using 70% cocoa. It was quite an achievement! This heightened cocoa content required a complete rethink of how things were done. This is when we started to select cocoas with absolute precision, because with such a low proportion of sugar there was nothing to mask imperfections. Cocoa was therefore selected according to its aromatic profile in order to create balanced blends with a unique flavor. Guanaja immediately revolutionized the market and became a benchmark product. Its name, Guanaja, is a nod to the first cocoa beans given to Christopher Columbus when he washed up on the Caribbean island of Guanaja on July 30, 1502.
Guanaja is a masterful blend with balanced bitterness that reveals a complex range of fruit, coffee, molasses and floral notes. Guanaja is a subtle blend of cocoa aromatic profiles typical of Trinidad, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire and Madagascar. These profiles are blended to obtain Guanaja’s unique and consistent flavor, which is both bittersweet and elegant
Cacao Pâte Extra 100% Extra Cocoa Paste Blocks
Reinforcing & Enriching
A unique and subtle blend of cocoa beans, initial acidulous notes develop into roasted cocoa beans, giving way to a mouth-filling richness accompanied by a pure, sharp bitterness. Extra Cocoa Paste is remarkable for reinforcing the chocolate taste in many recipes, powerfully enriching their flavor.