The miso makes the truffle a little savory it doesn’t scream miso. Don’t be put off by the thought of that combo, it actually works very well. It’s a white chocolate ganache flavored with miso paste and cayenne in a dark chocolate shell. The truffle that Chris created in honor of winning the Chopped show this past January is part of the truffle case lineup now. We thought it nicely balanced with the dark chocolate. As for the taste, we were all impressed with its immediate but not overpowering bergamot citrus flavor. The dark chocolate piece had a firm ganache and smelled like bergamot, just like Earl Grey tea. When she first saw the truffles in the box, she said they were beautiful with an outer space feel, and in particular she found the Earl Grey piece very pretty. We have a new CBTB chocolateer since we first decided to put Kollar Chocolates on our Recommended list, so we took this opportunity to introduce chocoloco to Kollar’s truffles to see if she agreed with our recommendation. They were all delicious, but the thing we remarked on repeatedly was that they had consistently the thinnest shells we have ever seen that also managed to be surprisingly sturdy. The case of truffles is just as stunning as before, and we got a box of truffles, some repeats, some new from the last visit. It was very coconutty, and reminded me of Mounds bars, but with better chocolate.
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The day’s flavor was Coconut, which was a white chocolate ganache full of coconut bits in a thin dark shell. The day we went, they gave us each a whole truffle. Kollar Coconut, the sample of the day More funįinally in the fun range, they still make Kollar Krack, a dark chocolate bark with pop rocks that we enjoyed last time, and a strawberry flavored white chocolate version.Īnd the staff was great, witty, knowledgeable, and helpful. I think Chris Kollar must be a jelly-forward PB&J connoisseur.
The peanut butter flavor comes after, and my only wish is that it would be dominant - like the way I make my PB&J sandwiches. The raspberry flavor hits first, a really good, distinctly raspberry taste. Feuilletine in the ganache gives it the texture of a crunchy peanut butter (not quite chunky PB), and the pâte de fruit is a good raspberry jelly imposter. Inside the dark chocolate bar was a line of raspberry pâte de fruit in a peanut butter ganache. Peanut butter and chocolate are 2 of my top 3 fav foods, so even though they looked like little bars of gold, I still had to try them. I did not have that problem with the gold luster-dusted PB&J bars however. PB&J bars are molded and dusted with gold luster to look like bars of gold Golden ratio Then there are the “Anti-Dental Kits” - 2 molded chocolate toothbrushes and a tube of chocolate “toothpaste” (ganache) - which like the owls are probably too cute to eat. The large, hollow, egg-shaped birds are filled with little chocolate beads so they rattle when you shake them, just like real maracas. Kollar’s anti-dental kits that they claim on their website are approved by 5 out of 5 dentists Too cuteįor instance, the cute molded owl chocolates we saw last time and thought were just decorations, we discovered are actually maracas. We visited Kollar Chocolates again in February 2020 for our Wine Country Chocolateering: Napa Edition tour. This time, while all the original elegance was still there, we noticed more of the humor that infuses the place. And in January 2020, he was named a Chopped Champion on Food Network’s Chopped (season 44, episode 8).
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For example, in 2015, Kollar’s founder and head chocolatier, Chris Kollar, was named one of Dessert Professional Magazine’s Top Ten Chocolatiers in North America. Since then, they have continued to impress not only us, but the world. And when we tried their truffles, we made Kollar one of our recommended chocolatiers. The first time we visited Kollar Chocolates in 2014, we were impressed by the beauty of the place and the pieces.
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