{"id":342,"date":"2012-12-17T22:57:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T21:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2012-12-17T23:18:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T22:18:58","slug":"how-to-match-chocolate-and-fruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/hints-tips\/how-to-match-chocolate-and-fruits","title":{"rendered":"How to match chocolate and fruits?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chocolate-and-fruit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-345\" alt=\"Chocolate and fruit\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chocolate-and-fruit.jpg\" width=\"258\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chocolate-and-fruit.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chocolate-and-fruit-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chocolate-and-fruit-240x240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/chocolate-and-fruit-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chocolate and fruit is a perfect match<\/strong>, but is it true in any case?<\/p>\n<p>Of course in pastry there is no limit to creativity, but there is a <strong>rule of thumb<\/strong> which might help in deciding <strong>what chocolate to use with which fruit<\/strong>. The following are standard combinations:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>Yellow fruits<\/strong> (e.g. pineapples) + <strong>milk chocolate<\/strong> (avoid dark chocolate)<br \/>\n&#8211; <strong>Red fruits<\/strong> (e.g. raspberries) + <strong>best with dark chocolate<\/strong> (also with white chocolate, that is sweet and marries well with acidity)<br \/>\n&#8211; <strong>Sweet fruits<\/strong> (e.g. bananas) + <strong>dark chocolate<\/strong> (to compensate sweetness with bitterness)<\/p>\n<p>These are just <strong>suggestions<\/strong> to have good matches, <strong>not strict rules<\/strong>, so feel free to experiment! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chocolate and fruit is a perfect match, but is it true in any case? Of course in pastry there is no limit to creativity, but there is a rule of thumb which might help in deciding what chocolate to use with which fruit. The following are standard combinations: &#8211; Yellow fruits (e.g. pineapples) + milk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[112,113],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hints-tips","tag-chocolate","tag-fruit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadtopastry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}