Karamell-Küche – Dark Chocolate Caramel
December 12, 2017
Karamell-Küche, the “Caramel Kitchen”, in the Germany Pavilion at Disney World’s Epcot, is full of caramel candies and desserts. These treats are freshly made on-site from the famous Werther’s brand recipes.
Sitting in the shop, looking lonely, and calling my name is a Dark Chocolate Caramel with Sea Salt. This caramel is as big as the palm of my hand and two fingers thick! It looks like it could be a small cake but it’s a solid block of caramel coated in dark chocolate.
The caramel is smooth, buttery and not too sweet. It melts in your mouth instead of sticking to your teeth. How do they get it to do that, by the way? Unless the caramel is gooey and runny, I haven’t experienced one that doesn’t stick to my teeth.
Then again, I don’t think I’ve ever had an opportunity to eat a really fresh caramel. I don’t make them at home, nor do I go out of my way to buy them in chocolate shops. When I see an assortment of fine chocolates, I usually pass up the caramels. But you can’t pass up caramels at the Karamell-Küche - they’re the specialty of the house!
The chocolate coating that covers the caramel is thin and bendable. Since it’s thin, it doesn’t break apart and fall off the caramel like a thicker coating might.
I suspect there’s added coconut oil in the chocolate coating formula. Coconut oil is soft when it hardens and stays soft at room temperature. Coconut oil would explain why it nicely hugs the rounded corners of the block of caramel and melts a little when you bite into it. I can’t prove it, but it would make sense.
The only down side to a thin chocolate coating is that if you’re a chocolate lover you’ll wish there was more of it!
I have to admit, though, that the Karamell-Küche dark chocolate caramel with sea salt converted me into a caramel lover. I may give the caramels in my local chocolate shop a try. I have a feeling, however, that I’ve been spoiled. I might only want them from the Caramel Kitchen from now on!
Next week: Orlando’s World of Chocolate Museum and Café chocolate tasting.
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