Callebaut Ruby RB2 Chocolate Callets — 32.8%

Callebaut

Callebaut Ruby RB2 Chocolate Callets — 32.8%

$99.95

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The fourth type of chocolate, after dark, milk and white — and the first genuinely new one in eighty years. Ruby gets its colour and its flavour from the ruby cocoa bean itself. No berries are added, no colouring, no fruit flavouring. What you taste is what the bean does.

RB2 is the second-generation recipe: a brighter, more vivid pink than the original and a noticeably punchier flavour. Callebaut's own tasting notes read blood orange, elderberry and buttermilk — cherry and mandarin come through clearly, over a creamy dairy base, with a fresh sourness running underneath. Beans are blended from Latin America and West Africa to keep the profile balanced rather than sharp.

Medium fluidity means it handles like any classic couverture: temper it, mould it, enrobe with it. But the advice from Callebaut's own chefs is worth repeating — use it pure wherever you can. The colour and the tang are the product; burying them in a filling wastes both.

Composition

Cocoa solids: 32.8% minimum
Milk solids: 20.6% minimum
Total fat: 36.8%
Fluidity: 3 of 5 — medium
Shelf life: 12 months

Best for

Bonbons and bars, moulding, enrobing, ganache, mousse, glazes, pastry cream, macarons, gelato, decoration.

Pairs with

Citrus, passion fruit, pineapple, raspberry, rosé champagne, honey, caramel, almonds, basil, mint, vanilla — and, for the adventurous, Roquefort and aged vinegars.