Candy "Mozart" - a real treat for gourmets

2025 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-23 12:50

Candy "Mozart" gained popularity due to its exceptional taste and exclusive performance. Indeed, it is customary to present such a dessert as a present or put it on a festive table. Firstly, this is the merit of her unique recipe and price (we have it starts from 400 rubles for a two hundred gram set), and secondly, these sweets are still not stale on the shelves of our stores.

There is an opinion that you can buy real Mozart sweets only in their historical homeland - in the city of Salzburg (Austria), and everything that is sold in our supermarkets is a fake. This is not so: today sweets are successfully exported to the 50 largest countries in the world. Therefore, you can buy an original product almost everywhere, you just need to know the distinctive features of this confectionery masterpiece. It is also worth considering that the price of real Mozart sweets cannot be too affordable: in a cafe you will be served a handmade candy for 5 euros, and a bonbonniere in a store can be purchased for only 4.

Homeland of sweets"Mozart"

The history of sweets began in 1890. Exactly one hundred years after the death of the great composer, confectioner Paul Furst invented this marzipan-chocolate creation. In general, Salzburg is known for the fact that the great composer was born, lived, created and ended his days there. To this day, the townspeople carefully keep the memory of him and proudly demonstrate everything related to the life and work of a genius. So, in the city you can find many souvenirs, perfumes, liqueurs, hotels, street names with his name. And even the local airport is called "W. A. Mozart".

Candy is the most popular and world-famous Austrian brand, which, of course, can be purchased at almost every step in Salzburg. Candy "Mozart" in its recipe is quite simple: it is a ground nut mixture mixed with sugar syrup and generously filled with a delicious composition of dark and milk chocolate. Since Paul Furst and all his followers never bothered to patent their creation, a wide variety of fakes continue to appear on the market. The easiest way to make the right choice, of course, is in Salzburg itself. But even here it is more profitable to buy sweets not in numerous name shops, designed mainly for tourists, but on the Market Square. The quality of Mozart candies is the same there, but the price is much lower.

Real Mozart candies

When buying candies outside of Austria, even in specialized stores, you may be surprised that they can tastediffer. All this is a consequence of the fact that the recipe was not patented, and therefore each manufacturer adds its own ingredients to the delicacy, while the sweets have a quality mark and a mandatory inscription: echte Mozartkugeln, which translates as "real Mozart sweets". Major candy companies:

• Mozartkugel Mirabell;
• Reber;
• Holzermayr;
• Hofbauer;
• Fürst.

By purchasing candies from these companies, you can be sure that you are paying for Austrian quality, and the taste will not disappoint you. Such candies can be packaged in red, yellow or silver with the same profile of the great composer on the package. In addition to the various ingredients used by confectioners, the taste may differ from one manufacturer due to the fact that each of them makes several varieties of sweets. For example, it is customary to add fruit liqueur to Reber (Mozart) sweets, which makes them taste a little tart.

Historical original

Real Mozart sweets are always made by hand at a confectionery factory in Salzburg named after the inventor of the dessert, Paul Furst. Such products always have a round shape and silver-blue packaging. Their availability is much lower than the goods from other manufacturers, and the price is several times higher. The original Mozart candy is made according to a classic recipe that has remained unchanged for the second century.

Recipe

Ingredients used in the production of sweets:

cocoa, refined sugar, milk powder, cocoa butter, mixed nuts (almonds, hazelnuts, pistachios), vegetable fat, cream, wheat flour

Also "Mozart" candy may contain alcohol, cherry syrup or berries, candied orange or pineapple, puffed rice, honey, natural flavors.

Thanks to a century of experience and the efforts of Austrian confectioners, this delicacy can rightly be called an exclusive and exquisite souvenir. Chocolates "Mozart" have an amazing taste in all their diversity.