Leonidas Chocolate Review
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Leonidas Chocolate Bars
Leonidas 50g chocolate bars are available in 7 different varieties: Dark, Milk, White, Orange, Nibs, and Feuilletine. Leonidas’ Orange Chocolate bar combines rich dark chocolate with a subtle flavour of orange. The Nibs Chocolate bar consists of a luscious dark chocolate with nibs of cocoa bean mixed in. Leonidas’ delicious Feuilletine Chocolate bar combines chunks of crispy biscuit with creamy milk chocolate.
Leonidas Chocolate General Assortment
The General Assortment from Leonidas contains a wide variety of Leonidas’ delicious Belgian Pralines arranged neatly in a beautiful ballotin gift box. This general assortment is made up of butter creams, ganaches, the Manon Café, and a number of other delicious and delightful Leonidas pralines. The Leonidas Chocolate General Assortment is an extremely popular item for gift giving and special occasions.
Other Leonidas Chocolate Assortments
Besides their General Assortment, Leonidas Chocolate also offers a number of other convenient and beautifully packaged assortments designed for individual tastes. Other assortments include milk chocolate, dark chocolate, Manon Café and Monon Blanc Ballotin, Fresh Butter Cream, Orangettes, Napolitains, Gianduja, and Marzipan Fruit.
No Sugar Added Chocolate Assortment
Leonidas Chocolate also offers a completely sugar free assortment. This assortment includes ganache vanilla, manon blanc, pear mousse, praline dark nibs, praline milk, and praline puffed rice. The sweeteners used in the processing of these chocolates are maltitol and sorbitol.
Special Items
Leonidas offers a Mickey Mouse box of assorted chocolates for the kids and rodent lovers on your gift-giving list. In addition, Leonidas gift certificates and party favours are available. You can also send a chocolate subscription of delicious Leonidas chocolates to be delivered once a month for either 6 months or a year.
Perfectly Delicious, Review By Rebecca Johnson
If it is possible to fall madly in love with a box of chocolates, then the assortment is the perfect place to start such an adventure. These chocolate are named after Leonidas Kestekidis, who definitely knew how to create chocolates for the true chocolate connoisseur.
When he moved back to Belgium he not only married his true love, he created chocolates the world now adores. When you taste these chocolates, your taste buds will also finally know true chocolate happiness. Whether you try one of these with a cup of coffee or tea or enjoy one as a daily indulgence, these will impress.
The “I Love You” chocolate with dreamy lemon filling embodies this sentiment. Each chocolate has a unique design and the I Love You chocolate has two hearts, ribbons and a seal. After you sample the variety of chocolates, specific flavors will stand out as favorites.
Here are my favorite creamy fillings (ganache and butter cream) which come in dark, white and milk chocolate depending on the selection:
Antoinette – A smooth Brandy flavored ganache
Lingoit Lait – Absolutely delicious vanilla flavored fresh butter cream filling. Time definitely stopped while tasting this chocolate.
Irrésistible – Dark chocolate and Strawberry sauce.
For ever – If you love coffee this may be one of the most delicious milk or dark chocolate chocolates ever made as it is filled with a special coffee cream that has hints of caramel. I ordered an entire box of these and they come in a variety of flavors. The milk chocolate and cherry filling is like Claude Debussy’s Rêverie. It is difficult to describe besides saying it is like a delicate cherry icing wrapped in milk chocolate.
Merveilleux – Milk or dark chocolate filled with coffee ganache.
Europe – Dark or milk chocolate filled with rum filling.
Ganache – Milk or dark chocolate with pure ganache.
Tosca – Milk chocolate with a special ganache.
Poésie – Dark chocolate and a Cointreau filling.
Antoinette – Delicate caramel hints in the milk chocolate coating mingle nicely with the vanilla filling.
Eve – Milk or dark chocolate with a creamy dreamy banana filling.
Alexandre le grand – A milk or dark chocolate with caramel cream.
Also Recommended:
If you wish to also try the Napolitains, I’d suggest the 1 pound sampler Ballotin with six varieties. You may also want to look for the new Palet d’Or. A deeply delicious and strong bitter chocolate filled with ganache. The center is made with butter, cream and chocolate and the outer coating is a masterpiece with gold decorations.
Leonidas now has over 1700 stores and sales locations worldwide and they offer over 80 varieties of fresh chocolates. The chocolates are air freighted weekly from Brussels so you will always find the quality to be superior.
My chocolates arrived fast and were as fresh as if I had purchased them in Belgium. They were carefully packaged in the famous gold boxes with signature/seasonal wrapping and a ribbon. The boxes were then placed in protective Styrofoam containers to protect the chocolates during shipping. The expedited shipping is recommended from May to early September.
Heavenly chocolate, Review By leelee (Chicago, IL)
Outstanding melt in your mouth chocolate. The dark chocolate is not bitter like many chocolatiers – it has the perfect blend of taste for any chocoholic. I’ve had many different types of chocolate from Belgium and can guarantee – Leonidas is the “Mercedes-Benz” of chocolatiers. The general assortment is an outstanding sampling of ivory, milk and dark chocolate. If you love dark chocolate then go for the dark chocolate assortment. You will not regret it. Also forget Godiva – it’s medium grade quality.
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Leonidas is rated No.3 in our “Top 12 Most Delicious Chocolate for Valentine’s Day 2011“
