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Angelina Drinking Chocolate Bottle
Palmiers
Angelina Drinking Chocolate Bottle
A stunning jewelbox, Angelina’s salon de thé is in the heart of Paris on the rue de Rivoli, just down the street from the Louvre. You can go there to appreciate the ornate, fin de siècle decor and eat a pastry or a sip an espresso. But you’d be missing the point. Angelina serves the best hot chocolate in Paris. And I’m ready to throw down and say it—it’s the best hot chocolate in the world.
The chocolate is a stunner. Silky, ultra creamy, super chocolatey with the barest bitter edge to cut through the sweetness. My tasting notes from my first visit to Angelina read: “like drinking molten gold, if gold tasted like complex and intensely satisfying homemade brownie batter.” Sipping it is an event to remember.
If a quick jaunt to Paris for a cup of hot chocolate isn’t an option, we’ve got the next best thing. Bring Angelina home. You could buy a tin of the mix and make your chocolate from scratch. Or, you could get a bottle of the stuff.
A bottle of hot chocolate? It’s not so different from those bottles of milky, sugary coffee from that famous Seattle brand. But now imagine if the bottle was twice as big and full of impossibly rich drinking chocolate. Heat the bottle up in a water bath for a few minutes and you’re in business.
Palmiers
You might call them Elephant Ears, we call ‘em palmiers. Whatever you call them, they’re delicious.
Made with lots of fresh butter, sugar and a bit of organic flour, this traditional puff pastry cookie has legions of fans here in Ann Arbor. Now we’re sharing them with the rest of the country. Ten to twelve cookies in each box, and each palmier is about the size of your palm. Makes a great gift or treat at your next book club. Grab a couple with your morning coffee. Dunk them into cocoa for a late night snack or dress your next bowl of gelato with a palmier.
Very addictive so don’t order any for yourself. You’ll be hooked.
The ingredients for these handmade palmiers are organic freshly milled whole wheat flour, sugar, butter, water, organic wheat flour (organic wheat, malted barley), bleached wheat flour, eggs, lemon juice, and sea salt.