The Cremino is a chocolate originally from Piedmont, in northern Italy, composed by three layers, the outer layers are made with gianduja chocolate, while the inner one can be made with coffee, lemon or hazelnut paste. Its typical shape is a cube and it's wrapped with aluminium paper, with a band which indicates the flavour.[1]

Cremino

Cremino with hazelnut filling (Feletti)
Type	Chocolate
Place of origin	Italy
Region or state	Piedmont
Created by	Ferdinando Baratti
Main ingredients	Gianduja with hazelnut or almond filling
Media: Cremino

History

This chocolate was created in the first half of the 19th century by Ferdinando Baratti, who owned with his associate Edoardo Milano a laboratory in Turin (the future Caffè Baratti & Milano [it]), where they produced liquors and sweets. However, the first official papers about the cremino are from 1934.[2][3]

Nowadays, Italian producers of cremino include: Caffarel,[4] Feletti [it],[5] Majani [it],[6] Venchi,[7] San Carlo[8] and Pernigotti.[9]

FIAT

The Italian car manufacturer FIAT is linked to this chocolate because in 1911 they launched a contest for Italian chocolate makers to create a new chocolate, for publicising their new model Fiat Tipo 4 [it]. The contest was won by Majani from Bologna, the first Italian chocolate maker, born in 1796, who created a new cremino with 4 layers, instead of 3: dark ones with gianduja, while the other two with almond paste.[10][6][11]

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