Love, Romance, Chocolate. Let’s rethink that; precedence matters.
If you’re dating it’s Chocolate, Romance, Love. For spouses it’s more likely Romance, Chocolate, Love. For the long comfortable couple perhaps it’s Love, Chocolate, Romance. We can do you love and chocolate without the romance, and we can do you chocolate and romance without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but we can’t do you romance and love without the chocolate. Chocolate is compulsory.*
Without further ado, the 2011 Dancing Lion Chocolate Valentine’s Collection.
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A glossy hand-painted cacao pod shell filled with burnt caramel quenched with fresh cranberries and a hint of juniper and folded into a blend of 64% Valrhona Manjari from Madagascar and 64% Valrhona Tainori from the Dominican Republic. |
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A domed shell made from 67% Olive & Sinclair chocolate from Ghana filled with bright raspberry-lavender syrup balanced against a layer of creamy meyer lemon and white chocolate ganache with crushed black telicherry peppercorns. |
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Fleurs Bleues |
A hand-dipped and hand-painted bonbon made from a creamy ganache of black tea with violets from Palais des Thes in Paris. The cream is local and the chocolate is 64% Valrhona Manjari from Madagascar. |
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Rocher |
A burnished golden nugget of almond paste, New Hampshire maple syrup, and 64% Valrhona Manjari from Madagascar rolled in toasted organic almonds. |
* Shamelessly stolen from the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, by Tom Stoppard.