Callebaut No Sugar Added 11 lb. Milk Chocolate Bar

Callebaut's No Sugar Added Milk Chocolate Bar provides a genuine Belgian Chocolate taste with no sugar added. They have been made – according to Callebaut’s strict quality standards – with premium grade cocoa beans, 100% pure cocoa butter and natural bourbon vanilla. Only the sugar in these recipes has been replaced with maltitol as a sweetener. Nevertheless, these chocolates taste nearly identical to traditional products. Furthermore they offer the same application possibilities and can be processed in exactly the same way as traditional chocolates. Their technical properties and behaviour are absolutely identical. The use of the denomination “no added sugar” on these products is allowed. With the perfect combination of cocoa percentages, 33.9% cocoa solids to be exact, and 21.5% Milk Solids, it is sure to fool even the most experienced chocolate connoisseur! Certified Kosher

Ingredients

Some background on the taste of Callebaut's Milk Chocolate

The taste of your Callebaut milk chocolate is determined by different components that form a unique harmony.

The blend or origin of the cocoa beans For our traditional chocolates, Callebaut composes blends of different cocoa bean varieties. These give the chocolate a very balanced and rounded taste. The blends guarantee a constant taste: No Sugar Added Milk produced today will taste exactly the same as No Sugar Added Milk produced tomorrow. For every Origine couverture, we select a cocoa bean variety from one single country or region. This determines the colour and taste of the chocolate. Java for instance is pale/reddish, yet with a very intense, caramel taste. Origine chocolates may also differ in taste from year to year, and from harvest to harvest.

Roasting the beans The roasting of the beans is done very carefully and at very precise temperature. It is the only possible way to release the precious flavours and aromas present in the cocoa beans.

The milk selected Some milk powders – or rather the milk fats in the milk – will caramelise during conching and will give the chocolate typical caramel flavours. Other milk powders give a more milky or creamy taste.

Cocoa content A higher cocoa content gives a chocolate more intensity. This does not necessarily mean bitterness, since some cocoa bean varieties are very mild and not bitter at all.

The cocoa butter Callebaut only selects premium cocoa beans from which the cocoa butter is extracted. Furthermore, we only use 100% cocoa butter to give our chocolate its unique taste and quality.

The sugar content The sugar content will eventually determine the sweetness of the chocolate.

Conching with patience and precision Callebaut conches its chocolate couvertures with great patience and exacting precision. This eliminates the undesired and too acid tones in the chocolate taste and creates the typical homogeneous taste with fresh, aromatic accents.

Natural Bourbon vanilla Pure, natural Bourbon vanilla gives chocolate that exciting hint of exotic refinement. It also accentuates the creaminess of milk chocolate. Natural vanilla and milk chocolate, a perfect match for one another.

Storage & Shelf Life Always store chocolate in a dry, dark place at a temperature of 53.6°F to 60.8°F. So: never in the fridge. Also avoid temperature shocks of more than 50°F: your chocolate might develop a white sheen. This does not affect the taste, but admit it: a dark, shiny and good looking praline or chocolate bar looks far more tempting.

Never store chocolate alongside strong-smelling foodstuffs. Chocolate absorbs odors very easily and this could affect the sublime taste of your favorite treat.

The best temperature to consume chocolate is at 64.4°F to 69.8°F. At this temperature, chocolate remains crunchy, yet is ready to fully release all of its flavors and aromas in your mouth. So always give chocolate the time to acclimatize from its storing temperature to room temperature.

Quality cocoa, dark and milk chocolate have a long shelf life by nature. The cocoa polyphenols naturally present help to protect dark and milk chocolate from oxidation for long periods. They are natural preservatives. If the above instructions are followed Callebaut's chocolate blocks' shelf life are approximately 12 - 18 months.