Chuao Chocolatier’s Pop Corn Pop Bar

Chuao Chocolatier, San Diego, Calif.

Chuao Chocolatier’s Pop Corn Pop Bar
Chuao Chocolatier, San Diego, Calif.
(888) 635.1444

Chuao Chocolatier’s Pop Corn Pop bar is a nod to America’s favorite movie theater treat and cleverly creates a sensation of popcorn popping. Chef Michael Antonorsi blends creamy milk chocolate with puffed whole grains, toasted corn chips, popping candy and a sprinkle of sea salt in creamy milk chocolate. Take a bite, close your eyes and experience “popcorn” popping in your mouth! Also available in a 60-calorie ChocoPod mini bar — surround sound not included.

Antonorsi discovered the fun of Pop Corn Pop during its creation. While playing with ways to use popcorn in a bar, he wondered what it might be like to actually simulate popcorn popping. And the coolest thing about Pop Corn Pop? Popcorn isn’t even an ingredient! Amaranth is the “secret” ingredient and combined with the popping candy create the taste and sensation of freshly popped popcorn.

Ingredients: Premium milk chocolate (41% cacao, cacao butter, sugar, dehydrated milk, soy lecithin [as an emulsifier], natural vanilla), Popping Candy (sugar, corn gluclose, lactose, carbon dioxide), corn, water, canola oil, salt, lime, puffed amaranth, sea salt. Contains: Milk, Soy.

S.R.P.: $4.99

Crystal Lindell, Former editor-in-chief of Candy Industry Magazine. While here she has worked on Candy Industry Magazine, Food Engineering Magazine and Food Safety Strategies. She holds a master’s degree in public affairs reporting from the University of Illinois – Springfield and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Western Illinois University. And her favorite breakfast is a cup of espresso and Twix bar.