Angel Hair Chocolate, The New Chocolate That’s Become the Most Viral on the Web

Maybe we weren't ready or maybe we didn't need it yet, but a new food trend has arrived in town. After the global success of Dubai chocolate, the talk of the town is now a pink bar that has something very similar to hair inside. It's called angel hair chocolate, it was created in Belgium and it's the new chocolate bar that's taking over social media.

What is Looks Like and Where it Comes From

As we know, trends come and go, and we already knew that the era of Dubai chocolate would end sooner or later. What we perhaps did not expect was that it would be replaced so quickly by another bar with an unusual filling that is driving everyone crazy. But what is it? Angel hair chocolate is nothing more than a bar of white chocolate colored pink, with a layer of pistachio and pişmaniye inside, a sort of Turkish cotton candy, made of flour, butter and sugar.

The prologue is the same then: a dessert born from the fusion of chocolate plus ingredients of Middle Eastern origin – plus pistachio that always seems to go well. But while Dubai chocolate is born, in fact, in the famous city of the United Arab Emirates, angel hair chocolate is born from a company called Tucho, in the nation considered by many to be the world capital of chocolate, Belgium, configuring itself as a sort of European response to the most viral chocolate of recent months.

What Does Angel Hair Chocolate Taste Like?

There are still relatively few lucky people who have had the pleasure of trying it: the chocolate is currently sold out and the company is not yet ready to export it to all European countries – a problem that, as stated on their website, they are trying to solve. In any case, we already have the opinion of some influencers who have defined it as good, special and some even consider it "the best chocolate ever tasted".

We can't confirm that this is really the case, but the premises are not bad anyway: it is indeed white chocolate, with pistachio cream, hints of vanilla, pomegranate and raspberry and, the protagonist, the pişmaniye. It is precisely this last one that gives that special touch that makes this chocolate quite unique: it gives the bar a characteristic contrast between the softness of the chocolate and the typical crunchiness of cotton candy. We should probably wait a little longer to taste it here in the U.S. since Tucho has not yet started shipping to our country. In any case, we anticipate that, as for the Dubai chocolate, the price is quite high: a 185 gram bar in fact costs above 20 dollars.

A New Food Trend

We have seen and will see many more gastronomic trends: and if taste is important – not to say essential – in the age of social media, another equally relevant aspect is aesthetics. Dubai chocolate had conquered, among other things, for the particular reasons outlined above: in this case, the surprising thing is a pink bar that, let's face it, is not something you see every day. And perhaps even more surprising is the moment in which it is broken in two, revealing these filaments made of sugar, butter and flour that resemble real hair. If the beginning of this story reminds us of many other trends, the epilogue can only be the same: in any case, we have no choice but to see how it will evolve.