chocolate pizza
{{Short description|Pizza prepared using chocolate}}
Chocolate pizza is a type of pizza prepared using chocolate as a primary ingredient. Various styles and preparation techniques exist. Chocolate pizza may be prepared as a dessert dish and as a savory dish. Some companies specialize in chocolate pizzas.
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Preparation
Some chocolate pizzas incorporate chocolate into the pizza dough. Chocolate pizza may be served as a sweet, dessert-style dish, or as a savory dish that includes chocolate. Chocolate pizza may be prepared using cooking chocolate as a spread before baking in the oven. Another variety is the use of a hazelnut spread after the pizza is baked. Chocolate pizza preparations have included icing sugar, banana, strawberries, marshmallows, sprinkles, smarties, white chocolate chips and sometimes even ice cream.{{Cite web |url=https://www.pizzatec.com.br/blog/saiba-como-fazer-pizza-de-sorvete |title=Saiba como fazer uma deliciosa pizza de sorvete na sua pizzaria |date=October 1, 2018 |access-date=2023-09-19 |website=pizzatec.com.br |publisher= |language=pt-br }}{{Dead link|date=January 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
History
Chocolate pizza combines chocolate and pizza, two popular ingredients among school-aged children.{{cite journal|title=Three consecutive (1993, 1995, 1997) surveys of food intake, nutritional attitudes and knowledge, and lifestyle in 1000 French children, aged 9-11 years| doi=10.1111/j.1365-277X.2007.00773.x| pmid=17539877|volume=20|issue = 3|journal=Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics|pages=241–251|year = 2007| last1=Bellisle| first1=F.| last2=Rolland-Cachera| first2=M. F.| author3=Kellogg Scientific Advisory Committee}} The confluence of pizza and chocolate developed in parallel in several Western countries and has become a dessert purveyed in franchise and chain restaurants.{{Cn|date=February 2025}}
Chocolate pizza is also known as a Valentine's Day,{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/02/09/chocolate-pizza.html|title=Chocolate Pizza takes gourmet market by storm|website=CNBC|access-date=2018-05-30}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.richardmagazine.com/chocolate-pizza-company/|title=Serve Up A Sweet Chocolate Pizza Delivery This Valentine's Day|date=2018-02-12|work=Richard Magazine|access-date=2018-05-30 }} Easter{{Cite web|url=http://www.hallmarkchannel.com/home-and-family/videos/chocolate-easter-eggs-home-family|title=Chocolate Easter Eggs - Home & Family - Video {{!}} Hallmark Channel|website=Hallmark Channel|access-date=2018-05-30}} and Christmas holiday{{Cite news|url=http://news4sanantonio.com/sa-living/producer-picks-12-04-2017|title=Producer Picks|last=Living|first=San Antoniuo|work=WOAI|access-date=2018-05-30|archive-date=2020-10-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018152255/https://news4sanantonio.com/sa-living/producer-picks-12-04-2017|url-status=dead}} treat.{{cite web|url=https://www.qsrmagazine.com/news/nothing-says-valentines-day-chocolate-pizza|title=Nothing Says Valentine's Day Like Chocolate ... Pizza?|publisher=QSR Magazine|access-date=28 December 2015|archive-date=22 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222140802/https://www.qsrmagazine.com/news/nothing-says-valentines-day-chocolate-pizza|url-status=dead}}
In Italy, pairing pizza with sweet flavors is very rare and considered "whimsical". Despite this norm, pizza bianca, stuffed with Nutella is sometimes eaten.{{Cite book |last=Parasecoli |first=Fabio |title=Food culture in Italy |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2004 |isbn=0-313-32726-2 |series=Food culture around the world |location=Connecticut |page=44}}
Companies
Chocolate Pizza Company in the United States specializes in Chocolate Pizza. The company's headquarters is in Marcellus, New York. The Gourmet Chocolate Pizza Company in Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire, England, purveys chocolate pizza prepared with Belgian chocolate. These are dessert chocolate pizzas that are cold, with the chocolate shaped as a pizza.{{Cite news|url=https://foodchannel.com/2017/chocolate-pizza-food-channel-finds|title=Chocolate Pizza: Food Channel Finds|date=2017-10-02|work=Food Channel|access-date=2018-05-30 }} The Papa Murphy's take-and-bake pizza company purveys a S'mores Dessert Pizza, which is prepared with chocolate chips, marshmallows and a topping.
See also
References
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{{cite web | title=Jordana Brewster on Chocolate Pizza, 'Uplifting Podcasts,' and Being Well | website=New York | date=May 21, 2015 | url=http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/05/jordana-brewster-on-chocolate-pizza-being-well.html | access-date=December 28, 2015}}
{{cite web | title=Review: Ask Italian, George Street, Oxford | website=Oxford Mail | url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/leisure/eatingout/omrestaurantreviews/14133984.Review__Ask_Italian__George_Street__Oxford/ | access-date=December 28, 2015}}
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Further reading
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- {{cite web | last=Tampone | first=Kevin | title=Growth prompts Chocolate Pizza move to new location (photos) | website=syracuse.com | date=November 4, 2015 | url=http://www.syracuse.com/storefront/index.ssf/2015/11/chocolate_pizza.html | access-date=December 28, 2015}}
- {{cite journal | last1 = Cooke | first1 = L. J. | last2 = Wardle | first2 = J. | year = 2005 | title = Age and gender differences in children's food preferences | url =http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1488/1/259.pdf | journal = British Journal of Nutrition | volume = 93 | issue = 5| pages = 741–746 | doi=10.1079/bjn20051389| pmid = 15975175 | doi-access = free }}
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External links
- [http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/we-need-to-talk-chocolate-pizza-recipe.html Food Network]
- [http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/chocolate-pizza-237341 Epicurious]