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product_id: 1898755
title: "Belgian Dark Couverture Chocolate Semisweet Callets, 54.5% - 5.5 Lbs"
brand: "callebaut"
price: "$345"
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 Whole bean roasting for intense flavor 5.5 lbs bulk pack for endless creativity Belgian Dark Couverture Chocolate Semisweet Callets, 54.5% - 5.5 Lbs

**Brand:** callebaut
**Price:** $345
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🍫 Elevate your baking game with the gold standard of Belgian chocolate!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Belgian Dark Couverture Chocolate Semisweet Callets, 54.5% - 5.5 Lbs by callebaut
- **How much does it cost?** $345 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.nz](https://www.desertcart.nz/products/1898755-belgian-dark-couverture-chocolate-semisweet-callets-54-5-5-5)

## 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

- • **Chef-Approved Quality:** Trusted by professionals worldwide for ganaches, mousses, and confections.
- • **Master the Art of Baking:** Perfectly balanced semisweet chocolate with smooth vanilla notes elevates every recipe.
- • **Pure Belgian Craftsmanship:** Crafted from whole roasted beans with 100% pure cocoa butter for rich, complex flavor.
- • **Effortless Melting & Molding:** Glossy callets designed for easy weighing, melting, and flawless texture control.
- • **Bulk Size, Endless Possibilities:** Generous 5.5 lb pack ensures you never run out during your creative culinary sessions.

## Overview

Callebaut Belgian Dark Couverture Chocolate Callets offer 54.5% cocoa content crafted from whole roasted beans, delivering a rich, smooth flavor with subtle vanilla notes. This 5.5 lb bulk pack is designed for professional and home bakers alike, providing versatile, easy-to-melt chocolate perfect for ganaches, mousses, enrobing, and more. Renowned worldwide, Callebaut’s artisanal process ensures intense, complex cocoa flavor in every callet.

## 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 |
| ASIN  | B008RBC1JM |
| Age Range Description | 24 Months and Above |
| Allergen Information | Celery Free |
| Best Sellers Rank | #9,237 in Grocery & Gourmet Food ( See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food ) #10 in Baking Chocolates |
| Brand Name | Callebaut |
| Color | Dark Chocolate Callets |
| Cuisine | Other |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (3,476) |
| Flavor | Chocolate |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer  | No |
| Item Form | callets |
| Item Type Name | food |
| Item Weight | 1000 Grams |
| Item model number  | 811-E4-U71 |
| Manufacturer | Callebaut |
| Manufacturer  | Callebaut |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Number of Pieces | 1 |
| Product Dimensions  | 10 x 5 x 10 inches; 2.2 Pounds |
| Size | 5.5 Pound (Pack of 1) |
| Specialty | Natural |
| Sweetness Description | Semi-Sweet |
| UPC | 773821535890 |
| UPC  | 773821535890 |
| Unit Count | 88 Fluid Ounces |
| 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.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Worth the Sticker Shock
*by A***R on June 29, 2024*

I recently got back from a trip to Belgium. The chocolate there was unreal. I had never had anything so good. I tasted a waffle with melted chocolate on it and just knew that I was going to have to re-create that taste when I came home. Looking for European chocolate in my area produced mostly small, eating chocolates, and I wanted something that I could melt and bake with. These were pricey, and I was kind of nervous about ordering them in the summer because I was afraid they would be melted. To my surprise, they arrived in a little cooler bag with an ice pack, without one melted chip. Now to taste. I was worried these wouldn’t live up to the hype. As soon as I sliced open the bag the entire room filled with the smell of a magical Chocolate shop. Remember how when you were a kid you’d step into the candy store and that smell of lovely sugary sweetness would hit you when you opened the door? It was like that. I tasted one and it just melted in my mouth so deliciously that I had to close my eyes and say a deep Mmmmmmmmm. The flavor is complex. Fruity. Multi layered. It’s not your average candy bar from the store. This is the real thing. This tastes exactly like what I had in Belgium. The bag is over 5 pounds – so a little bit heavier than a bag of flour. It completely filled a gallon Ziploc bag for me. I’m just over the moon that I can finally get chocolate here with the quality I found in Europe. It’s pricey, but it’s definitely worth it. Use this when you’re baking to impress. Don’t waste its greatness on Frenemies. They don’t deserve it.

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*Last updated: 2026-03-08*