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product_id: 1898755
title: "Belgian Dark Couverture Chocolate Semisweet Callets, 54.5% - 5.5 Lbs"
brand: "callebaut"
price: "$287"
currency: NZD
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 13
category: "Callebaut"
url: https://www.desertcart.nz/products/1898755-belgian-dark-couverture-chocolate-semisweet-callets-54-5-5-5
store_origin: NZ
region: New Zealand
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# 54.5% premium cocoa content Smooth melt with medium viscosity Whole bean roasting for full flavor Belgian Dark Couverture Chocolate Semisweet Callets, 54.5% - 5.5 Lbs

**Brand:** callebaut
**Price:** $287
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🍫 Elevate your creations with the chocolate that professionals swear by!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Belgian Dark Couverture Chocolate Semisweet Callets, 54.5% - 5.5 Lbs by callebaut
- **How much does it cost?** $287 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Best For

- callebaut enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted callebaut brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Unmatched Flavor Depth:** Whole bean roasting locks in complex cocoa notes with subtle vanilla undertones.
- • **Master the Art of Baking:** Professional-grade Belgian couverture for flawless ganaches, mousses, and more.
- • **Versatility at Its Finest:** Ideal for everything from sauces to pralines, satisfying every creative culinary need.
- • **Effortless Melting & Molding:** Medium viscosity ensures perfect liquidity for enrobing, molding, and decorating.
- • **Trusted by Top Chefs Worldwide:** Join the elite circle baking with Callebaut’s renowned 54.5% semisweet chocolate.

## Overview

Callebaut Belgian Dark Couverture Chocolate Callets feature 54.5% cocoa, crafted from whole roasted beans to deliver a rich, balanced flavor with subtle vanilla notes. Designed for professional and home bakers alike, these smooth melting callets offer medium viscosity perfect for ganaches, enrobing, molding, and decorating. Sourced and processed in Belgium, this 5.5 lb pack ensures consistent, premium quality for all your baking masterpieces.

## Description

Callebaut, one of Belgium's premier chocolatiers, brings us these versatile semisweet chocolate chips called Callets, glossy, delicious, easy to weigh and melt, and perfectly designed for baking. With 54.5 percent cocoa content, these chocolate chips have a well balanced bitter flavor, with subtle sweetness and medium intensity. The medium viscosity and liquidity makes these chips suitable for all baking applications, including enrobing and molding pralines, hollow figurines, fillings and ganaches, and decorating. This chocolate is made with fine cocoa beans, natural bourbon vanilla and 100 percent pure cocoa butter. Callebaut is one of the rare chocolate makers that still selects, roasts and grinds its own cocoa beans, the beans are roasted in their entire shell, to protect them and keep in all the aromas and subtleties. This yields a more intense, more complex and deeper cocoa flavor, unmistakably Callebaut.

Review: Best Baking Chocolate I’ve Ever Used — Amazing Flavor! - These Callebaut dark chocolate callets are incredible. The flavor is rich, smooth, and perfectly balanced — not too bitter and not too sweet. They melt beautifully for baking, dipping, and ganache. The 5.5 lb bag is huge but totally worth it for the quality. This is professional-grade chocolate at home. Highly recommend!
Review: Delicious taste, great for adding to any recipe - This chocolate is my favorite to use in a variety of different recipes. Whether it is use for melting or baking, the chocolate adds the right taste. High quality chocolate well worth the price. I even use in place of Tradional chocolate chips.

## Features

- Whole bean roasting guarantees its full taste with a solid cocoa body and fine top notes.
- Loved by chefs all over the world, the 811 54.5 is Callebauts all around chocolate for confectionery, ganaches, mousses, biscuits, sauces, drinks and many other applications. It is simply made to help you achieve perfect end results every time
- Smooth flavor with subtle vanilla note
- Crafted in Belgium from whole roasted beans

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | B008RBC1JM |
| Best Sellers Rank | #10,612 in Grocery & Gourmet Food ( See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food ) #19 in Baking Chocolates |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (3,456) |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer  | No |
| Item model number  | 811-E4-U71 |
| Manufacturer  | Callebaut |
| Product Dimensions  | 10 x 5 x 10 inches; 2.2 Pounds |
| UPC  | 773821535890 |
| Units  | 88 Fluid Ounces |

## Product Details

- **Allergen Information:** Celery Free
- **Brand:** Callebaut
- **Flavor:** Chocolate
- **Item Weight:** 1000 Grams
- **Specialty:** Natural

## Images

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## Available Options

This product comes in different **Size** options.

## Questions & Answers

**Q: Can we eat these Callets directly, as in the trail-mix?  Or they are only intended for baking and too bitter on it's own, though they are sweetened?**
A: Absolutely! The best tasting chocolate I have ever had! Giving the price and quality, I wouldn’t use it in trail mix. It is best for candy making or a ganache!

**Q: Can I use this for making chocolate cake?**
A: I have only used it for the ganache (filling between layers of cake and topping) for chocolate cake but not the cake itself.  I usually use Dutch cocoa powder for the cake.

**Q: What is the difference between these callets and the "Barry Callebaut" chips/chunks here on Amazon?**
A: I'm not sure I know the full answer, but here goes:  "Callebaut" was originally established in Belgium in the mid 1800s, while "Cacao Barry" was established in France, also in the mid-1800s.  The two companies merged in the mid 1990s, which created the Barry Callebaut name, yet they maintained distinctions in their product line.  Both chocolate makers produce couverture chocolate, meaning that they make chocolate with genuine cocoa butter, which must be tempered.  While more intricate to work with than compound chocolate, chocolate w/cocoa butter (i.e., tempered chocolate) produces superior results.  I've used the Callebaut 815 (not so much the 811 yet), and it's a wonderfully blended semi-sweet chocolate.  It molds well and enrobes well.  I have NOT used the Barry Callebaut line (which seems to appear as the original name of Cacao Barry - not sure why), but I have to believe that you'd would get similar results.  Experts from The Chocolate Life, a well known free information source and bulletin board for all things chocolate, suggest that the flavor profiles between the two are similar.  I don't know if I've answered your question, but I hope this helps!

**Q: What precautions are used for shipping and delivery considering summer temperatures?**
A: During summer months we ship chocolate only via FedEx Overnight. Ice/gel packs will be added as well, to keep the chocolate cold and to protect it in transit.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best Baking Chocolate I’ve Ever Used — Amazing Flavor!
*by V***M on December 6, 2025*

These Callebaut dark chocolate callets are incredible. The flavor is rich, smooth, and perfectly balanced — not too bitter and not too sweet. They melt beautifully for baking, dipping, and ganache. The 5.5 lb bag is huge but totally worth it for the quality. This is professional-grade chocolate at home. Highly recommend!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Delicious taste, great for adding to any recipe
*by C***M on November 17, 2025*

This chocolate is my favorite to use in a variety of different recipes. Whether it is use for melting or baking, the chocolate adds the right taste. High quality chocolate well worth the price. I even use in place of Tradional chocolate chips.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Delicious and high quality
*by S***Z on December 17, 2025*

Delicious dark chocolate. Made several successful confections with this. Get the tempering right and it will be amazing.

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*Last updated: 2026-02-08*