Chocolate pralines. Cri-cri Arcobaleno

This chocolate delicacy, wrapped like a bonbon, was created between the 19th and 20th centuries and has become part of the collective consciousness of the inhabitants of the capital of Piedmont. Legend has it that the name CRI-CRI was born from the love story between Paolo and Cristina.

Before each meeting with his beloved, Paolo always visited a pastry shop where he bought unnamed chocolate pralines. The saleswoman, who knew both of them, always asked him: “Cri?” And Paolo replied with a lover’s smile: “Cri!”.

The owner of the pastry shop, who witnessed this scene every day, decided to name these chocolate pralines, surrounded by small sugar balls and filled with a roasted hazelnut core, CRI-CRI.

Ingredients: dark chocolate 53% (cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, emulsifier: soy lecithin. Cocoa minimum 60%). Crumbs 25% (sugar, corn starch, glucose syrup. Food colors: apple concentrate, blackcurrant, lemon, radish, pumpkin, spirulina, beetroot juice concentrate. Polishing agent: beeswax, carnauba wax) Piedmont hazelnuts IGP 16%, sugar, cocoa powder, corn maltodextrin, natural bourbon vanilla extract.