Making the right impression, having something unique and powerfully delicious to serve in your boardroom with coffee and tea.
What about having the right pillow chocolate for your guests? Or something for your kids when they visit if you're super competitive with you ex?
Making Mendiants begins with our finest milk chocolate and finishes with the best fresh natural crunchy peanut nestled within the surface.
Like variety, perhaps a dark chocolate without nuts? Gaspare makes another mendiant, it's called Anicini. Anicini is larger, significantly more impressive, and a bit more expensive. An extremely rich pleasure.
Ingredients: Milk chocolate (pure cane sugar, milk, cacao butter, cacao beans, soy lecithin, vanilla beans), 10x sugar (sugar, cornstarch), sugar, peanuts.
From Wikipedia: A mendiant is a traditional French confection composed of a chocolate disk studded with nuts and dried fruits representing the four mendicant or monastic orders of the Dominicans, Augustinians, Franciscans and Carmelites. Each of the nuts and dried fruits used refer to the color of monastic robes with tradition dictating raisins for the Dominicans, hazelnut for the Augustins, dried fig for Franciscans and almond for Carmelite. Usually found during Christmas, recipes for this confection have veered away from the traditional combination of nuts and fruits to other combinations incorporating seeds, fruit peels and other items.
You don't have to be French or be a monk to let the milk chocolate warm on your tongue, become ready to merge with the peanut. It's different from having the peanut completely enrobed, the mouthfeel is different. If you want to taste-test the difference try the Pé de Moleque and do a side-by-side.