Belgian chocolatier Leonidas has created a travel retail-exclusive gift box to celebrate its Manon chocolates. The Manon Collection gift box is available now at selected European travel retail locations.
The Manon, originally created in 1950 by Leonidas Kestekides, was a walnut kernel dipped in melted sugar. Years later Kestekides’s nephew Basilio decided to transform the Manon into a white chocolate praline with walnut. He filled the Manon with a buttercream, for which Leonidas holds the secret recipe, and coated it in white chocolate.
In the 1980s, Basilio’s brother Yanni replaced the walnut kernel with a hazelnut. The recipe has remained unchanged for 30 years.
The new Leonidas Manon Collection (495g) contains 32 Manon White and Manon Café White pieces. The chocolates are presented in a premium gift box decorated with a refined gold pattern, which echoes the shape of the iconic praline.
