Chocolate on the peak – Hungarian artisan products for the holidays

Miraculous hind-selection, pálinka-caviar, beer-jelly with pepper or popping candy – would you think that these are premium desserts? Let’s celebrate with special sweets through the selection of travelo.hu.

Christmas without chocolate? It is sad even to think about it. While Milka was the peak in our childhood and a box of Ferrero was the luxury itself, today a self-respecting person always gifts artisan sweets.

Tricky delicacy: Lyan Chocolate Manufacture

So why are the products of Lyan called tricky? Because of their best-known family of product, the “edible alcohols” only for the 18-plus customers. The 18-plus sign should be taken seriously: the pálinka goodies contain real pálinka, and consuming it with the added sugar can go to one’s head surprisingly fast. Pálinka pastry, pálinka ball and pálinka vaccine present the boozy fineness in different kinds of witty forms, but wine- and beer-based goodies are also made. The mulled-wine-cube, for example, is a jelly cube with high collagen-content which hides the taste of the original mulled wine.

Hot chocolate is one of the favourites of the season among the chocolates of Lyan. There is no lack of ideas: chocolate pastilles in jars are offered, only hot milk or cream should be poured onto it, and the hot chocolate is done. They also offer chocolate blocks pinned onto wands in wild tastes: cappuccino, Irish whiskey, orange-brittle or Amarena cherry.

Artisan Christmas fondants are also made in the workshop on Kinizsi street: in the tastes of rum punch, eggnog, chestnut, truffle cream, Baileys.

Christmas advice: the beer, wine or pálinka sweeties can make a hit among the male relatives who are not easy to gift; they also offer one of the widest range of Christmas fondants.

Lyan Chocolate Manufacture: 11 Kinizsi Street, Budapest 1092

Beauties from Gyula: Cadeau Bonbon Boutique

Cadeau means gift in French. Although sweets are not the first thing that come to our mind when thinking of Gyula, the locals are proud of their hundreds of years old confectioner traditions, and they should be: Kézműves Confectionery was the ancestor of Cadeau established by László Balogh. The confectionery celebrates its 25th birthday next year – it was a forerunner of today’s artisan trends.

The international profession picked up on them, two of their bonbons – Figaro and Málna Mánia (Raspberry Mania) – won a gold at International Chocolate Awards last year.

After Kézműves and Százéves (a hundred years old) Confectioneries, Cadeaus was founded in 1998, and opened their chocolatiers in Budapest, Kecskemét and Székesfehérvár. Mainly the premium-quality chocolate of Belgian Callebaut factory is used, but a completely unique concept was made this year: Cadeau Grand Cru wants their own-developed chocolate, which was tested in the Or’Noir laboratory in France with Ghanaian and Ivory Coast cocoa beans.

Christmas advice: Cadeau’s Miraculous hind-selection, with 100 pieces, is an exclusive gift, a limited bonbon-set, in a beautiful box, including the pieces from the own-developed Grand Cru. The selection contains 20 different tastes and is available only this Christmas season.