{"id":5367,"date":"2014-07-01T13:04:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T20:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=5367"},"modified":"2022-10-24T13:14:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T20:14:20","slug":"pretty-shiny-chocolates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/chocolate-news\/pretty-shiny-chocolates\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty, shiny chocolates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isn\u2019t technology amazing? A Swiss company has created a way to imprint colorful holograms (like the shiny decal on some credit cards) on chocolate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5369\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5369\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-01-at-12.56.02-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5369\" src=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-01-at-12.56.02-PM.png\" alt=\"holographic chocolates\" width=\"640\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-01-at-12.56.02-PM.png 640w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-01-at-12.56.02-PM-320x207.png 320w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-01-at-12.56.02-PM-348x225.png 348w, https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Screen-Shot-2014-07-01-at-12.56.02-PM-200x129.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fun concept of holographic chocolates from Morphotonix: Imagine the possibilities.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These aren\u2019t printed transfers applied to the tops of the chocolates. Instead <a title=\"Morphotonix\" href=\"https:\/\/morphotonix.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Morphotonix<\/a> etches the molds with the designs, so the chocolates themselves become holographic: the surfaces bend light at specific angles to create the colors. No dyes, no additives, the chocolate makes the picture.<\/p>\n<p>The company isn\u2019t manufacturing chocolate, just the molds for others to make holographic chocolates in. And <a title=\"NPR: holographic chocolate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2014\/06\/14\/321816570\/holographic-chocolates-look-as-beautiful-as-they-taste\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to NPR<\/a>, not all chocolates will work with the molds. The granular size of the chocolate matters, as well as the size of its fat crystals.<\/p>\n<p>Also according to NPR, the molds should become available sometime next year. I hope some of our local artisan chocolatiers give this new technology a try and offer us these unique treats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add super-special color to chocolates without additives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[472,473,288],"class_list":["post-5367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chocolate-news","tag-holograms","tag-swiss","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35856,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5367\/revisions\/35856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}