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boulets de Metz
chocolate covered ‘cannon balls’
In 1934, pâtissier Léon Bohr invented the boulet de Metz, a sweet shaped like a cannon ball in honour of a popular song at the time about a local artilleryman.
The boulet is quite complex: a little biscuit filled with ganache encased in chocolate flavoured almond paste, which is covered in caramel, the whole then covered with dark or milk chocolate mixed with bits of hazelnuts.
Text © Dana Facaros
Image by Loann057