Treat your friends (or yourself) to something ritzy this holiday season. Nathaniel Reid, executive pastry chef at The Ritz-Carton St. Louis, has crafted house-made chocolate bars from single-origin Madagaskara and Peruvian cocoa. The 65 percent dark chocolate bar features Peruvian chocolate with jammy red fruit notes and caramelized hazelnuts. If you need a little cream to cut your cocoa, try the 33 percent milk chocolate bar with cocoa sourced from Madagascar. And just in case you needed another reason to stock up on luxurious chocolate this year, The Ritz-Carlton is donating $1 of each bar purchased to Ronald McDonald House through Dec. 31.
$12 each. The Ritz-Carlton St. Louis, 100 Carondelet Plaza, 314.863.6300, ritzcarlton.com And now…
Feeling ambitious? Try to take on any one of the sweet treats in Olive Dupon’s The New Pâtissiers featuring recipes from some of the world’s best chocolatiers and pastry chefs—including St. Louis’ own Nathaniel Reid, who signed a copy that we are giving away. Click here to enter!
This article appears in December 2013.