Appeal to American palates

• From Puratos, the creators of Belcolade, the real Belgian chocolate, comes Chocolanté, the new name in real chocolate for the American palate. This chocolate line offers a wide selection of formats and viscosities to suit the application needs of today's professional. Call Puratos Chocolate USA at 800/472-7462. www.puratos.us

Versatile, rich flavors

• BakeMark delivers BakeSense Chocolate. Ideal for cookies, croissants, Danish, donuts, coffee cakes, cupcakes or brownies, these chocolate chips and chunks enhance bakery products with the sweet, rich flavors that customers crave. Varieties include white chocolate and semi-sweet chocolate chunks, and are available in 30-lb. bags. Call BakeMark at 562/949-1054.
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Go online for garnish ideas

• In2food's Dobla products are available in a large assortment of chocolate decorations, shavings and curls. Decoration styles range from traditional to modern, and include shavings, pencils and specialty shapes. Visit in2food's new decorating website, www.chocboard.com, for more ideas. Call in2food at 770/887-0201.
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Offer dark, bittersweet chocolate

• Guittard Chocolate Co. offers a line of dark and bittersweet chocolates. Darkote Chunk is a mild flavored, semi-sweet chocolate that melts quickly. Lustrous all-purpose chocolate features robust chocolate flavor with a vanilla character. French vanilla is a blend of the finest flavor beans, which produces a robust chocolate with a rich, distinctive vanilla character. Solitaire is a fine flavored, dutched dark chocolate, and Ramono semi-sweet chocolate features a mild, well-rounded, dutched chocolate flavor. Call Guittard Chocolate Co. at 800/468-2462. www.guittard.com

Chocolate pearls add texture, color

• Barry Callebaut's Crispearls ?, chocolate pearls with crunchy, biscuit interiors, are now available in dark and white chocolate. The core of every pearl is a toasted biscuit kernel, adding a surprising crunch to the rich flavor. They also add visual appeal, color and contrast to pastries, desserts and confectionery items. Call Barry Callebaut at 312/496-7300. www.barry-callebaut.com