{"product_id":"hazelnut-french-praline-crunch-bar","title":"Hazelnut French Praline Crunch Bar (3 bars)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery September, as the summer winds down, we pause to make something for the pure joy of it. This year we chose to expand our praline line by adding to our best selling Peanut Butterflies and Gianduja Blocks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFresh nuts are carefully roasted with sugar in a copper pot, a French technique that perfectly roasts and coats each nut in caramel. Once cooled, the nuts are ground into a smooth paste, and chocolate is folded in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat comes out is not sweet the way a candied nut is sweet. The caramel goes dark and toasty, the roast comes forward instead of hiding behind sugar, and the chocolate holds the whole thing together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis has been one of my favorite techniques for as long as I have been making confections, and I do not think nearly enough people in this country have tasted just how amazing it can be. Part of that is the word itself, which does a lot of work depending on who is holding it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf you grew up in the American South, a praline is a soft pecan patty and you probably say PRAH-leen and have opinions about people who say PRAY-leen. In Belgium, a praline is any filled chocolate. What I am talking about is the French one, praliné, and it is not a candy at all. It is a technique.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHazelnut.\u003c\/strong\u003e Everyone has eaten hazelnut and chocolate out of a jar. This is the same idea done properly, and it is the bar I hand people when they tell me they have no idea what praliné is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 65% bittersweet chocolate shell, with a little organic crisped brown rice folded in for texture (that is the crunch in the name). 6.4 oz per bar, made by hand here in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a set of three Hazelnut bars. If you would rather taste the technique across all four nuts, the \u003ca href=\"\/products\/french-praline-crunch-collection\"\u003eFrench Praline Crunch Collection\u003c\/a\u003e has one of each.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnjoy,\u003cbr\u003eChuck\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSet of Three Bars Total Net Weight: 19.2 oz. (540 g)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHazelnut Praline Crunch Bar\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIngredients: Bittersweet chocolate 65% cacao (cacao beans, cane sugar, cocoa butter, sunflower lecithin, vanilla beans), hazelnuts, cane sugar, milk chocolate 41% cacao (cane sugar, cocoa butter, full cream milk, cacao beans, sunflower lecithin, vanilla beans), organic crispy brown rice cereal (organic brown rice, organic brown rice syrup, salt), cocoa butter, salt, vanilla beans, cocoa butter and natural colorants.\u003cbr\u003eContains: Milk and tree nuts (hazelnuts).\u003cbr\u003eNet Weight: 6.4 oz (180 g)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eManufactured in a facility that also processes products containing tree nuts, peanuts, milk, eggs, soy, wheat and sesame.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charles Chocolates","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43257205063778,"sku":null,"price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0652\/4045\/files\/hazelnut-french-praline-crunch-bar-in-pack.jpg?v=1787778864","url":"https:\/\/www.charleschocolates.com\/products\/hazelnut-french-praline-crunch-bar","provider":"Charles Chocolates","version":"1.0","type":"link"}