Valrhona Collection gives you access to exceptional ingredients. Choose the milk chocolate for baking that best suits your recipe from a selection of Valrhona chocolates. Very easy to measure, the beans melt perfectly, are simple to use and allow for precise work. Jivara 40%, Equatoriale 35%, Azélia 35%, Caramélia 36%… The entire range of Valrhona milk chocolates is available in 250g and 1kg formats. These high-quality chocolates will allow you to create delicious recipes.
What is the best milk chocolate?
As a partner of the greatest chefs, Valrhona offers a wide selection of chocolates specially designed for pastry. Bake like the most renowned chefs in gastronomy, with the chefs' chocolates, at home. Professional quality, they adapt to a multitude of recipes. Give free rein to your creativity by making entremets, logs, frozen desserts, tarts, cookies, chocolate cakes, and much more. If you master the techniques of chocolate making, coat your candies, prepare pralines or make exquisite ganaches.
Valrhona Chocolate: 100 years of know-how
Founded in 1922, Maison Valrhona embodies a 100-year heritage of know-how, now accessible online through Valrhona Collection. Discover the many innovations that have marked the brand's history: Inspiration fruit couverture, Dulcey 35%, the very first blond-colored couverture. Explore our selection and immerse yourself in a world of flavors and discoveries.
The best milk chocolate matches your tastes!
To make your choice, let yourself be guided by the aromatic notes indicated under the name of each milk chocolate. Succumb to the sweetness of Azélia 35% chocolate and its notes of hazelnut or to the gourmet Caramélia 36% with its notes of salted caramel. Opt for the vanilla notes of the essential Jivara 40%.
Which milk chocolate for which recipe?
With Valrhona milk baking chocolates, you can make all your favorite recipes. To help you choose more precisely, here are their optimal applications
Tablet and molding : Azélia 35% and Caramélia 36%
Mousses : all
Creamy and ganaches : Jivara 40%
Ice creams and sorbets : all
Cakes and other desserts : all
Cocoas from all over the world for very varied aromatic profiles
For over a century, Valrhona has been dedicated to providing its customers with an inspiring culinary experience by carefully selecting the best cocoas from all four corners of the globe. Valrhona sourcers travel to plantations around the world and unearth cocoa treasures specific to each country. Valrhona is dedicated to fair and sustainable cocoa farming, where each chocolate carries a unique story. It is a story that is harmoniously woven between cocoa producers and artisans who reveal the aromatic subtleties when transforming the beans into chocolate.
What is the difference between couverture, pastry and regular chocolate?
The difference is in the cocoa butter content ! Couverture chocolates and baking chocolates contain more cocoa butter. This gives them more fluidity and therefore makes them easier to use and work with.
Why use baking chocolate?
As explained above, baking chocolate is easier to work with. You should use couverture chocolate or baking chocolate if you want to coat chocolate candies, make your own homemade chocolate bars or your chocolate molds . You must temper it be forehand, in order to obtain a beautiful chocolate material: shiny, smooth and very brittle.
Where to buy milk, dark or white couverture chocolate for individuals?
Order online from the Valrhona Collection boutique, intended for individuals who are passionate about baking or looking for the best chocolates to give as gifts and enjoy.
