Featured Chocolates - August 2011

This month's chocolate assortment from Zingerman's bakery is sure to please the most discriminating palates. The inspiration for Zingerman's Chocolate Cherry Bread comes from "Black Forest Gateaux" which is a chocolate cake made with cherries and cream. Is it really bread? You bet it is. But it's not like any bread you've ever tasted! It's more like a mound of HUGE Dark Belgian chocolate chunks and flavor-packed Michigan grown, dried cherries surrounded by full flavored dark round bread. The key ingredient in Zingerman's Hot Cocoa Cake is a very special cocoa, made for us by Scharffen Berger, one of the leaders in America's new pursuit of fine chocolate. They've found a special, natural cocoa powder that is more complex and elegantly excellent than any we've ever tried. And finally, two layers of their Black Magic Brownie sandwich a layer of Dulce de Leche, the Argentine caramel cream. Topped with a blend of sugar and almonds cooked together into a toasty, dark caramel that's then ground into a sweetly crunchy praline powder, all we can say is…wow!