Chocolate, the object of desire that multiplies your sales
It is estimated that, on average, each Spaniard consumes just over 3.5 kilos of chocolate. Cocoa can be found in numerous bakery products and, according to the figures and how popular it is, it’s obvious your establishment must feature it in some way.
Science has spent years asking the same question: why do people like chocolate so much? This is mainly due to molecules such as the obromine, which cause a feeling of well-being that you will surely have experienced if you like this food. But the effects of this delicious sweet don’t end there: it’s estimated that chocolate contains around 300 chemicals that have an incredible effect on the brain. So much so that some studies claim that eating chocolate may be more pleasurable than a passionate kiss. Besides the chemical reaction, chocolate is a food that everyone likes and is one of the jewels in the crown of bakery products that you can offer at your business.
The chocolate comes from cocoa beans collected before fermentation. Once they are toasted and ground, they produce a cocoa paste that, when mixed with cocoa butter, sugar and other ingredients, forms what we know as chocolate (and how delicious it is). To find the origins of chocolate you have to look a long way back, specifically, to the peoples of South America such as the Mayans and the Aztecs, who considered it a highly valuable product and even considered it “sacred”. The Spanish conquistadors brought chocolate to the old continent, and Europe went mad for it. The rest, as they say, is history.
Chocolate is present in many products that are common in bakeries and cafeterias. It’s an ideal option to include some of them in your business since there is always (always) someone who opts for tasty chocolate when they see it in the display. And it’s estimated that, on average, each Spaniard consumes just over 3.5 kilos of this food a year. Chocolate is an object of desire that few can resist.
Products you can offer where chocolate is the star ingredient
Within the world of pastries, there are two foods that succeed by making cocoa an essential part of what they are: the chocolate croissant and the pain au chocolat. Both, with a delicious puff pastry, and a filling starring chocolate, are a success in establishments and are very profitable, especially if you decide to bet on frozen bakery products, which allow you to have this type of food with all its qualities intact until you bake it.
The chocolate croissant is one of the many options for your customers to enjoy this particular flavour. Thanks to the chocolate bar inside, it’s particularly intense and very appealing to people who are firm chocolate lovers. It’s not the only option. The chocolate mini croissant, consisting of delicious chocolate cream with hazelnuts, is presented as an alternative for those with a sweet tooth who do not want to overdo it too much; on the other hand, the chocolate croissant with butter is an ode to the senses due to its exceptional quality and flavour thanks to the combination of butter and chocolate cream with hazelnuts, just like the extra chocolate cone, which will delight the biggest chocolate lovers.
The chocolate napolitana is notable for the softness of its fresh dough and, how could it be otherwise, its delicious chocolate filling, which has made it an essential classic in breakfasts ands nacks. Mini chocolate napolitana are the perfect option to enjoy a little bite, and the decorated chocolate napolitana a pleasure for the eyes as well as for the palate due to the milk chocolate chips and pearl sugar that cover it.
And this isn’t the end of the matter. There are many other ways to enjoy chocolate: for example, in the chocolate cone, an exquisite pastry item made with fine layers of pastry and a generous chocolate filling; the chocolate bomb, an authentic explosion that’s suitable for the most faithful chocolate lovers; and the chocolate horseshoe, which will surprise you with its crunchy texture and its careful, attractive finish.
Beyond pastries, we cannot forget one of the great classics in all our lives, such as the sandwich with ounces of chocolate. There was no greater happiness than unwrapping your sandwich at playtime and finding this wonder in your hands.
Numerous options to savour the always-tasty chocolate, a food that never goes out of fashion and that will help multiply your business’s sales.
