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In the world ranking of chocolate lovers, France is in sixth position, with 7 kilos devoured per inhabitant each year. Here are the details of this cute sin.
They know very well how to melt you. Wrapped in their festive clothes, chocolates, essentials for New Year’s Eve. “It’s Christmas, it’s sweet, it’s joy”, describes a passerby. At the end of the year, 7 out of 10 French people fall for large boxes of chocolate. But what do large-scale ballotins contain, what is the recipe for their success?
Daniel Stallert, master chocolate maker at Leonidas, dissects the basic recipe: cocoa, cocoa butter, sugar and lecithin to make the mixture more fluid. Buttercream or praline, here, it’s the ingredients inside that make the difference, with one constant: the festive products are very rich. At the end of the year, the factory is running at full speed, a crucial moment for the brand, which hopes to regain a pre-crisis turnover of 100 million euros. The French consume an average of 6.4 kg of artisanal or industrial chocolate, per year and per inhabitant.