Apple and Peanut

To celebrate our first birthday in our new shop on the High Street, Hastings, we had a competition where customers could design a limited edition chocolate. We had an adult winner and a child winner, and this was the successful entry in the latter category. Why did I choose it... well I liked the contrast in flavour and texture that would be achieved by a fruity pate de fruit layer and a nutty praline layer. And it introduced me to a flavour combination that I hadn't come across before. I though apple and peanut sounded a bit odd when the entry came in, but when I googled it I found that dipping slices of apple in peanut butter is a thing. A quick taste test showed that it worked. Who'd have thought it.... well apparently our winner did! I did modify the concept slightly. The original idea was for it to be a milk chocolate, but I thought a sweet dark would work better, plus with a praline and a pate de fruit in the piece as well it meant it would be be vegan if dark. Plus our victorious adult entry was a milk chocolate and I wanted one milk winner and one dark one. So we have an apple pate de fruit layer and a peanut and dark chocolate praline layer. All enrobed in a sweet 55% dark chocolate, and decorated with a bit of roasted peanut. Apple and Peanut is our limited edition micro batch flavour for June.