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{Chocolate Review}: Recchiuti’s Sweet Treats for Easter

Apr 20 by Anita 2 Comments

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Warning: There is going to be a lot of chocolate on this page for the next few posts. After all, it’s nearly Easter, the holidays that generates more candy sales than any other holiday save Halloween. Have you got your jellybeans and peeps ready for your Easter baskets?

Let me suggest a few other Easter treats you might not want to miss. Michael Recchiuti, one of my very favorite chocolatiers (and a great guy, to boot), has created some limited edition sweets for the holiday. I got a chance to sample a couple of them:

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These are the kind of Easter eggs I’m looking for now (sorry, candy-colored plastic eggs from the drugstore!) Recchiuti’s Force Noir Eggs, a shell of delicately painted dark chocolate enclosing his famous vanilla-laced chocolate ganache. You know how Reese’s comes out with their peanut butter eggs at Easter? I actually prefer them to the traditional peanut butter cups because I think the shape provides a better peanut butter to chocolate ratio. It’s the same concept here with the Force Noir Eggs – the plump curve of the chocolate shells is just the right amount of backdrop for the ganache filling to unfold in your mouth.

 
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Another signature Recchiuti flavor, burnt caramel, gets the Easter treatment in the Peep & Hop Box – burnt caramel chocolates with spring-y Easter images printed on top. Although deep dark caramel is everywhere these days, Recchiuti was one of the first to really popularize the flavor. I got a box of eight of these chocolates and had to fight to hold on to even one to taste test! As delicious as ever.

These and other Easter treats can be found at Recchiuti’s website. Here’s hoping the Easter bunny brings you something sweet on Sunday!

Filed Under: Chocolate, Reviews, San Francisco, Sweet Spots, Sweet Spots Tagged With: chocolate, easter, recchiuti, review, san francisco

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Comments

  1. 1

    Rachel Neil says

    Apr 21 at 12:00 am

    Hi, My name is Rachel:
    I really love your blog, I’ll be trying out your recipes in the near future.
    I was wondering if you’d like to do a link exchange.
    here’s my site:
    http://itsmadefromscratch.blogspot.com

    Reply
  2. 2

    Viktor says

    Apr 27 at 8:15 am

    oh chocolate…

    Reply

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