What Are the 5 Colours of Chocolate?

What Are the 5 Colours of Chocolate?

Brownies made with caramel, ruby, and milk chocolates

Why 5 Colors?

In addition to traditional dark, milk, and white chocolate, Callebaut offers innovative Gold and Ruby chocolates. There’s no better way to draw your customers in and delight their taste buds than with a range of flavours and colours.

Ruby Tablet

Ruby Chocolate

Ruby’s natural pink colour and fruity flavour offer chefs opportunities for entirely new and innovative pairings. Known as the “4th type” of chocolate, Ruby is made from carefully and sustainably sourced cacao beans grown in Brazil, Ecuador, and Ivory Coast.

Banana Financier dipped in Gold Chocolate by Chef Russ Thayer

Gold Chocolate

Gold is crafted with a perfect combination of caramelized sugar and caramelized milk. It has an appealing, warm colour and an intense yet well-balanced taste with rich notes of toffee, butter, and cream, enhanced by toasting the sugars and milk solids—an exciting dash of salt rounds out the flavour of this unique couverture.

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Callebaut 823 Milk Chocolate

This smooth and creamy milk chocolate is perfect for a wide range of applications. The deep, warm colour, smooth cocoa body, and sweet, caramelly notes make it an iconic milk chocolate preferred by chefs worldwide.

Dark Chocolate Cremeux

Callebaut 811 Dark Chocolate

811 has a full-bodied taste, solid cocoa body, and fine, fruity notes. With a cacao content of 54.5%, it can add depth and richness to your chocolate creations without overwhelming more delicate flavours. Best of all, it’s incredibly versatile and is the go-to couverture for chefs creating mousses, pralines, baked goods, and more.

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Callebaut W2 White Chocolate

This chocolate is as Belgian as can be! Predominately made with milk from cows grazing on Belgian pastures and sugar from locally grown sugar beets, W2 offers pronounced milky, creamy, caramelly, and vanilla notes that are in perfect balance. Its versatility and depth of flavour make it perfect for chocolate lovers worldwide.

Recipes to Explore

Why choose just one? These recipes use two or more of the 5 Colours!

Discover the 5 Colours of Chocolate