Chuao Chocolatier Giveaway: Firecracker Trufflesfeatured

July 4, 2010 | 38 Comments

Happy 4th of July everyone! Hope you’re be celebrating with some good BBQ, cold bevvies, and spectacular fireworks!

In honor of this booming occasion, we’re doing a giveaway of Chuao Chocolatier’s Firecracker Truffles.

Chuao Chocolatier Firecracker Truffles

The Firecracker Truffle contains a caramel fudge center infused with chipotle chile and a touch of sea salt. It is then enrobed in dark chocolate and a layer of popping candy.

Take a bite and as the caramel and chocolate start to dissolve on your tongue, the pop-rocks start crackling away – you can actually hear them! A gentle heat from the chipotle kicks in, before long, your mouth is sparking away like your own private fireworks show.

You may remember Chuao from our Chocolate Coverage of the Fancy Food Show back in January. That was our first introduction to Venezuelan born Master Chef and Chocolatier Michael Antonorsi, when he knocked our socks off with his Firecracker Bar.

Michael and his brother, Richard, founded the chocolate company in 2002, with the vision of pioneering “fusion chocolate” through creating unusual, unexpected, and delicious flavors using premium chocolate and fresh, natural ingredients. They called the company Chuao (pronounced “Chew-WOW”), named after the Venezuelan cacao-growing region, in homage to their family heritage and their cacao farming legacy. The Antonorsi brothers’ ancestors once ran a small family farm that was an important part of the criollo cacao plantation industry; chocolate is part of their roots.

We’re excited to share their labor of love with you! These fiery truffles are quite the conversation piece – break them out at your next party, or surprise someone with one, and get ready for an awesome reaction.

pop rocks and coke

The use of popping candy in this is just brilliant. It brings me right back to the pop-rocks of my youth. (Was there ever any truth to that whole “pop-rocks and soda will make you explode” warning? I never dared to find out.) Nostalgia is the theme of today’s giveaway question 🙂

Chuao Chocolatier Firecracker Truffle

To win this box of 16 Firecracker Truffles…

Simply leave a comment here telling me: What was your favorite candy growing up?

Giveaway deadline is Friday 7/9, when the clock strikes midnight (PST). Winner will be announced on Saturday 7/10.

Disclosure: This giveaway was made possible via free sample and giveaway donation by Chuao Chocolatier.

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Update: Congrats to Sarah, winner of Lick My Spoon’s Chuao Chocolatier Giveaway!

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38 comments on "Chuao Chocolatier Giveaway: Firecracker Truffles"

Harmony AUTHOR — July 4, 2010 @ 4:33 pm1

Wow! Candy of my youth. There were so many, it’s almost impossible to choose. If I must narrow it down, it’s a choice between Chunky w/ nuts & fruit and the old M&M bar. The M&M was the precursor of today’s Kit Kat bar, but it only had two skinny connected bars (instead of KK’s four) and was much longer; wrapped in a gold paper. Haven’t seen one in AGES.

The Firecracker Truffle sounds absolutely awesome!

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rachel crisman AUTHOR — July 4, 2010 @ 5:01 pm2

I loved Zero bars when I was a kid. Not many people ate Zero bars but they were white chocolate on the outside and yummy nougut on the inside!!

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Ghee Statham AUTHOR — July 4, 2010 @ 6:03 pm3

My favorite candy was and still is Goetze’s caramel creams and Cow tails. Brings back great childhood memories of eating them with my dad.

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Jeannie G AUTHOR — July 4, 2010 @ 7:32 pm4

Loved chocolate ice cubes and bit o’honey back in the old days…

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Ali AUTHOR — July 4, 2010 @ 8:24 pm5

Those truffles sound delish! Â My favorite candy growing up was anything involving peanut butter and chocolate: Peanut Butter Cups, Peanut M and Ms, Snickers, Mr. Goodbar, Etc.

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Darcy B AUTHOR — July 4, 2010 @ 9:40 pm6

I loved Marathon bars—even though when you eat it the caramel stretches and then the chocolate would fall off—I loved aba zaba’s too—-and pacers they were like mint starbursts—oh and remember rothchilds –mmmm. I used to love poprocks–still do.

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Lisa AUTHOR — July 4, 2010 @ 10:52 pm7

I loved Sees Chocolates.

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Susan AUTHOR — July 4, 2010 @ 10:58 pm8

I loved all candies as a child. I think my favorites were the candies that were fun. I loved the pop rocks. They burst in your mouth as you eat them. I also loved the candy necklaces. You could look cool in your jewelery and eat it too! Anything with chocolate and nuts.Â
The Firecracker truffles sound amazing. Reminds me of the time I had a Pierre Hermes macaron.

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Bonnie AUTHOR — July 5, 2010 @ 6:13 am9

In my childhood, we can’t afford to have chocolate. So the white rabbit candy is my favorite. But now I love any kind of truffles.

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Amy AUTHOR — July 5, 2010 @ 8:59 am10

Candy cigarettes & Lik-a-Stik. I used to “smoke” the cigs while riding my horse and pretend I was the Marlboro Man. I’d eat Lik-a-Stik by the pool and sometimes just skip the Stik altogether. Oh, those wild days!

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Jessica AUTHOR — July 5, 2010 @ 9:02 am11

I used to love going to the candy store with my grandfather where they still had penny candy. We’d stock up on all kinds of stuff, but back then what I wanted most was equal portions of red & purple Swedish Fish.

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leslie AUTHOR — July 5, 2010 @ 9:15 am12

My favorite candy was Sixlets! A bag of those weird faux chocolate candy balls and a red Icee would have me on Cloud 9!!

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Lindsey AUTHOR — July 5, 2010 @ 10:21 am13

gummy bears. i still love them.

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Jess AUTHOR — July 5, 2010 @ 2:38 pm14

Red vines were my favorite!! (They don’t sell those on the East Coast!)

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sippitysup AUTHOR — July 5, 2010 @ 4:58 pm15

You are gonna laugh but I liked those wax bottle filled with a sugary liquid! Yikes. GREG

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sippitysup AUTHOR — July 5, 2010 @ 4:59 pm16

Oh and pop rocks too! GREG

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Denise AUTHOR — July 5, 2010 @ 7:46 pm17

Sourstraws! I used to buy a bunch of them during lunch break, and sneak some bites during class =X

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Marc @ NoRecipes AUTHOR — July 5, 2010 @ 8:42 pm18

Wow that truffle sound very cool. I went to a Chuao tasting here in NYC last week and their chocolates are reallly good. My favourite candy growing up was scotchmallows from See’s chocolates. They’re marshmallows with caramel covered in dark chocolate.Â

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Sarah AUTHOR — July 5, 2010 @ 9:24 pm19

I grew up in Canada… so I would have to say my childhood favorite was Aero bars (which are chocolate bars with air bubbles)! Now they come in mint and dark chocolate too.

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The Duo Dishes AUTHOR — July 5, 2010 @ 9:51 pm20

Starbursts and skittles! All the crazy, silly flavors too. Full of sugar and empty calories. 🙂

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Yael AUTHOR — July 5, 2010 @ 11:11 pm21

In my day there used to be a “penny candy store” in the area. It was a real treat to go there and fill a paper bag with all kinds of goodies -everything from candy necklaces to gummy candies- I can’t even remember all the kinds they had but I do know I miss it!

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ella AUTHOR — July 6, 2010 @ 1:47 pm22

My favorite candy growing up was probably pixy stix. lol pure sugar.

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gabby AUTHOR — July 6, 2010 @ 1:48 pm23

I loved rock candy. . . Still do!

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Joanne AUTHOR — July 6, 2010 @ 2:27 pm24

AH! I SO want those truffles! My favorite candy growing up was Sugar Daddy. That’s why the dentist loved me so much.

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pegasuslegend AUTHOR — July 6, 2010 @ 2:42 pm25

Wow who wouldnt love these~ my favorite candy growing up were Mallow Cups, your would collect points for free candy and still get to eat this marshmellow gooey coconut and chocolate cup of fabulous candy~

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Tara AUTHOR — July 6, 2010 @ 3:25 pm26

my favorite was frozen gummy coke bottles. used to love buying those at the candy store. happy 4th!

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Anna AUTHOR — July 6, 2010 @ 5:58 pm27

It was a (hand made) dulce de leite candy that was crunchy outside and inside had cream dulce de leite. Oh boy! I miss that candy.

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Simply Life AUTHOR — July 7, 2010 @ 5:31 am28

wow, great picture of the fireworks!

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Kathy AUTHOR — July 7, 2010 @ 10:45 am29

Couldn’t wait for fall each year to go to The Great Danbury State Fair and have some Boston Baked Beans and Burnt Peanuts from the Penny Candy Store over by the pond. Yum!

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S AUTHOR — July 7, 2010 @ 11:32 am30

Too many to pick! Fruit roll-ups were one of them.

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chubby chinese girl AUTHOR — July 7, 2010 @ 2:24 pm31

As a kid I always liked those big colorful lollipops… =)

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Andrea@High/Low AUTHOR — July 7, 2010 @ 3:33 pm32

What an interesting piece of chocolate! I wonder if they were at the fancy food fair here in NYC. Anyway, my fave candy growing up were boxes of Nerd candies. I loved the two different colours and flavours – plus the packaging was fun too.

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OysterCulture AUTHOR — July 7, 2010 @ 5:27 pm33

Hmm, how do you expect me to limit it to one? Â I have to say it was my mom’s homemade chocolates with peanut butter filling. Â I could not get enough of them and they led me to a life of crime. Â I pilfered them at every opportunity. Â My poor mom, she could never figure out what happen to them, well she did eventually, it didn’t help that my dad also took from the stash.

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Kim AUTHOR — July 7, 2010 @ 5:47 pm34

My favorite candy was “zots”, a hard candy with a fizzy middle, and I still love almond roca.

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Olivia AUTHOR — July 7, 2010 @ 7:19 pm35

My favorite candy was haw flakes – soooooo good.

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Sherri AUTHOR — July 10, 2010 @ 2:21 pm36

I can’t wait to try these chocolates. Pop rocks were one of my favorites when I was a kid. I also loved the wax bottles with the liquid inside and Zots!

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carmen AUTHOR — July 11, 2010 @ 12:02 pm37

my favorite candy growing up was snickers! Â it’s too sweet for me now. Â i also looved kit-kats. Â 🙂

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