🍫 When is National Chocolate Fondue Day 2020

This sweet and so sophisticated dish can be not only cheese but also sweet as well. In melted chocolate, both black and white, we can immerse fresh berries and pieces of fruit in long thin plugs: strawberries, pineapples, apples, grapes, kiwi and pears. It sounds really terrific. But can you answer the question “When is National Chocolate Fondue Day in 2020?” without any prompt from our side? As a rule, people are not able to do it and they don’t know that for the first time, the delicious dessert called by the world “fondue” appeared in the US in 1966, but popular became very fast – a year later, when the best restaurants and respectful cafes in America and Europe included it in their menus.

But let’s discover the situation in details. Are you ready to follow us? – We are starting.

History

Of course, it would be quite silly to investigate the matter concerning, what day World Chocolate Fondue Day in 2020 is, without clarification of the historical background of this event.

At the very beginning it would be rather interesting to mention that this dessert was invented a long time ago. In 1966, about 100 journalists were invited to a press conference, at the end of which a huge meal was organized especially for them.

As the first dish the creators served cheese dish with the same name, for the second – Burgundian meat fondue, which was rather popular at that time, and as the dessert it was represented by exotic chocolate fondue called like a name of the famous sweet “Toblerone”. – The visitors saw something really unusual. – In the ceramic pot over the flame of the candles, the melted triangular pieces “Toblerone” was boiling slowly. Nearby it was possible to find the  small forks, cubes of white bread, slices of cookies and pieces of fruit to put them into a delicious chocolate cream.

Soon, many modern magazines and even respectful newspapers noted that the emergence of a new dessert had already conquered the American continent.

However, the director of one of the largest Swiss restaurants, arranged in New York skeptically commented the rumors about the appearance of a new dessert, finding them to be something like the “absolute nonsense.” But having tried it, he turned it on the menu, and all the visitors were fascinated by this dessert. When several more fashionable restaurants included it in their menus, the sophisticated fondue was completely triumphant.

Just a year later, in 1967, the dessert came to Switzerland, where it was served at the winter resorts in Gstaad, Grindelwald and Verbier, and then in Germany, where it was simply called Schokoladenfondue, without mentioning the brand of chocolate.

It must be said that the most delicious sweet fondue is obtained with chocolate Toblerone. A mix of honey and almonds in this kind  really does make the fondue unforgettable.

Meaning

What does National Chocolate Fondue Day mean? – If you hope to get the exact answer for this question, we are going to disappoint you. The matter is that it is only up to you to decide whether to celebrate this holiday or to forget completely about its existence in the contemporary calendar. But from the other side, if there is a perfect reason to celebrate something terrific, why not to be involved into the participation?

By the way, in accordance with some points of view, this sophisticated dessert is considered to be the most romantic dish, that is able to  bring together the lovers even by the character of its serving. Just imagine the liquid milk chocolate, into which you can alternately dip pieces of fruit, marshmallows and other sweets and the cozy light of the candle, which brings an element of fire into the fairy-tale atmosphere. All these things create all this magical atmosphere of a beautiful and so romantic holiday.

Definition

Giving the wide answer to the question “When is International Chocolate Fondue Day 2020?” we should give our readers a great amount of various pieces of information. All in all this tasty dessert is made from bitter kind or from white one. Some people prefer to mix it with cream. There are also caramel variety, coconut and many other sweet types of this dish. Warm dense fruit fondues with added liqueur are incredibly tasty with mini-cakes. You can prepare them all for holidays or server like a dish for hearty family gatherings.

Into the melted chocolate it is possible to drop some ripe fruits. The most typical ones for this purpose are bananas, strawberries and tangerines, and you can also slice of sponge cake. To the dessert fondue it is recommended to serve sweet sparkling wine, peach, orange and coffee liqueurs.

Traditions

When is Chocolate Fondue Day in 2020, calendar will surely remind you. The date is fixed, so the only thing you have to remember is when February 5th comes. It sounds quite easy, doesn’t it? It means that you can be involved any moment or year you like.

As you can understand there are no any special rules and traditions for celebrating this special occasion, but you can always invent something special for yourself and your close surroundings.

What about cooking this dish at home? – If it is not possible go somewhere and try it out. But, in any case, please, mind some important rules. – The best thing is to serve this dessert with cakes, small biscuits or even muffins. But mind that they should be cut into cubes. The slices of apples or pears, bananas, cherries, tangerines, oranges or grapes are also quite desirable.

You see, February 5th is a perfect opportunity for warm friendly parties and hearty sittings in front of the fireplace. Tasting sweet fondue you can talk peacefully, listen to calm music, watch a good film, read something interesting aloud or to play a popular nowadays board game.

International Chocolate Fondue Day Facts

Discovering the question “What is the date of National Chocolate Fondue Day 2020?” we would like to give our readers some recommendations concerning the preparation of this dish. Here is the recipe and the steps, which will help you to prepare the tastiest dessert, which will surprise everybody from your surroundings.

First of all let’s talk about the ingredients, which will be necessary for this dish preparation. The list is quite simple in fact.

• 1/8 liters of double cream. You can take any kind you like, depending on your personal preferences.
• 3 triangular pieces Toblerone. The weight should be not less than 100 g each. Frankly speaking, now we are recommending you the most popular kind. You can choose something different, of course. But, please, mind the weight.
• 1 tbsp of brandy, rum or even ordinary milk. In this case it is up to you to decide what to give preference to. If you are cooking for children, you can’t use even a small amount of alcohol, of course.

The process of this dessert cooking is quite simple and even the beginner can cope with it without any difficulties.

First of all preheat the cream in a small saucepan. Then break the prepared in advance chocolate into pieces and add to the cream, stirring constantly until it melts. Gently mix everything with cognac (it can ignite, so, please, be careful). Pour into a small fondue pot over a small candle.

In accordance with the American variant, instead of rum, you can use coffee liqueur or 1 tbsp of brandy, Kuantra liqueur, mint liqueur and powder of soluble coffee. In these variants it is possible to add marshmallow, banana cubes and pieces of dried apricots.