Valrhona Inspiration Couverture
Couverture Blends of Cocoa Butter with Fruit
Valrhona’s latest product line quite literally will inspire new creations. Inspiration is made from processed fresh fruit of the very finest quality, whose intense color and flavor combine wonderfully with the unique texture of cocoa butter. Inspiration contains no artificial color or flavor and works like white chocolate in application.
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35.9% Raspberry Couverture Chocolate
Bright & Jammy
Raspberry Inspiration opens the door to new possibilities for using raspberries in pastry. Along with the naturally vibrant color, enjoy warm notes of raspberry jelly which give way to the tart flourish that characterizes this fruit.
The Raspberry Inspiration fruit couverture is a subtle blend of cocoa butter, sugar and raspberry. The queen of berries, raspberry is one of pastry’s iconic fruits, its delicate balance of sweet and tart flavors making it stand out. Valrhona wanted to express raspberry’s unique flavor in all its intensity, along with its vibrant natural pink color. And this is how Raspberry Inspiration fruit couverture came to be.
Raspberry Inspiration, with its hint of acidity, evokes the cheerful scent of homemade raspberry jam.
37.9% Strawberry Couverture Chocolate
Intense & Gourmet
The Strawberry Inspiration fruit couverture is a subtle blend of cocoa butter, sugar and strawberry. Strawberry Inspiration adds a new dimension to fruit-flavored recipes. It was born out of a collaboration between Valrhona’s R&D team and some of its customers, and their belief in their product was rewarded when Inspiration won the Grand Prize at the Sirha Innovation Awards 2017.
The sweet candied notes of Strawberry Inspiration call to mind the joy of into a biscuit covered in fresh fruit jam.
30.5% Almond Couverture Chocolate
Natural & Fresh
The first of its kind, Almond Inspiration features the creamy texture of chocolate with the sweet intensity of pure natural almond. It was designed collaboratively with Valrhona customers and an almond pressing specialist.
Ground almonds are mixed with cocoa butter, sugar, and lecithin to create a completely unique product with all the freshness of almonds in the form of a chocolate.
32.8% Passion Fruit Couverture Chocolate
Intense & Tangy
The Passion Fruit Inspiration fruit couverture is a subtle blend of cocoa butter, sugar and passion fruit. Sweet, gourmet and with a touch of tang, Passion fruit brings to mind the sun and tropical countries that it comes from. Its unique and subtle taste adds a dash of sunshine to summer desserts. Passion fruit is a completely unique flavor which can be difficult to work with, but Valrhona wanted to make it accessible to all thanks to our Passion Fruit Inspiration couverture.
The tropical, tangy notes of Passion Fruit Inspiration hint at the freshness of a passion fruit sorbet under the summer sun.
34.4% Yuzu Couverture Chocolate
Tangy & Fresh
Using only the highest quality yuzu from Japan, Yuzu Inspiration brings the unique flavor of yuzu to new pastry preparations. Its naturally sweet, tangy flavor with a hint of bitterness blends perfectly with other ingredients, bringing out their flavors.
This treasured fruit, Yuzu, is an icon from Japan with a distinct flavor and character like no other ingredient. Yuzu bursts onto the palate with a unique citrusy flavor. We use only the highest quality yuzu farmed in tiny smallholdings found halfway up mountains in Southeast Japan’s rural Kochi region. The yuzu grows in very small quantities but with outstanding flavor thanks to the citrus-friendly terroir and climate.
