If you keep your candies much more than a week before eating, that’s when we start talking about refrigerators and freezers.
Nothing that is not cold can stay
“I rarely advise my customers to refrigerate or freeze their candies, but it is not because it cannot be done. This is more than it requires a few steps to make sure that candies are still as beautiful as I have been shipped, ”notes Coppel.
If you know you keep your candies for more than a week, says Coppel, a refrigerator or a wine cooler is your best bet to keep the flavors with fresh and powerful chocolate. Most sources recommend wrapping closely plastic candies – or in an airtight container – before storing in a refrigerator, to prevent your chocolates from picking up funny flavors of everything in the refrigerator.
“If you have a wine cooler, you’re lucky. This is the best device you can use to store candy. Place your candies there at 16 ° C or 60 ° F (if you want to be even more precise, the cooler should have relative humidity between 60 and 70%) ”, according to the written instructions sent by Coppel.
Failure of wine coolers, a more standard refrigerator will do the trick. Coppel warns that after keeping your chocolates in the refrigerator, you should remove them and let them reach the room temperature again before eating.
“Otherwise, the garnishes will be difficult, and the flavors will not pass as much as they should, because the cold inhibits the perception of the flavor,” remarks Coppel.
How to freeze and travel with chocolate
Let’s say that you send long distances chocolate, or should you otherwise keep your candies for more than two weeks? You can freeze your chocolate up to a year. “Yes, you can do it”, Note Coppel, “and all the major chocolate productions.”
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Here are the Coppel instructions for freezing at home, without submitting your chocolate to rapid temperature changes:
