What is the secret of Dubai chocolate?
What is the secret of Dubai chocolate?
There’s one taste that’s gone viral lately: Dubai chocolate. There are many who love it and many who hate it. So is it just because it has gone viral on social media? What about the taste? How is it different from the pistachio chocolate we know? Or is there another secret?
Some flavors come and go, become fashionable, and then suddenly disappear as if they never existed. The world of desserts is the perfect environment for such fashions. The fad for Turkish lokma, fried dough balls filled with all kinds of creams came and went like that. People queued in long lines to try the cream-filled version and then suddenly went back to the classic plain one, and the fad was instantly over. Some flavors may have lost their former dominance, but they still exist and live on with their lovers, even if they do not retain their former fame. For example, the once ubiquitous “Trileçe” was everywhere, now you have to look for the milk-syrup-drenched cake topped with a caramel glaze to find a good one. Such examples are endless. Most of such once novel trends flavors are rather late inventions. San Sebastian cheesecake and Tiramisu, for example, whose fame has now spread all over the world, for better or worse, do not have really deep-rooted pasts but were brilliant ideas that became a fashion and spread all over the world, albeit with many changes. What is more, both are executed so differently that they have nothing to do with the original, they have now become global tastes with endless variations. This is how the idea of cold baklava was born, which eventually found its way onto the menu of even the most reluctant classic baklava shops. Some of these new sweets are here to stay and even become world classics.
The latest taste to join this trend in the dessert world is the viral Dubai chocolate. The idea came from a pregnant British-Egyptian woman living in Dubai who was craving chocolate. Unable to find the exact taste she was looking for, Sarah Hamouda created a flavor that was a cross between chocolate and dessert and began producing it to her own taste both for herself and commercially to sell. The name Dubai comes from the place where it was created, but the very core flavors are truly Middle Eastern influences in its creation. So, flavor-wise success was guaranteed but the rest is a bit of a social media story. But the truth is that many chocolatiers are now producing their own Dubai chocolate and different variations are emerging. But is it here to stay? Let’s take a look at the reasons why Dubai chocolate is so popular by deconstructing the famed bar to its components.
Pistachio-chocolate duo
Kilde: Hurriyet Daily News
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