Fortunato 36% Milk, Strawberries, Cranberries, Nibs Bar

[split]   Description Fortunato 36% Milk, Strawberries, Cranberries, Nibs Bar As with all creations made by our wonderful chocolatier Javier Valencia, you are going to get layers of flavor and balance in this bar. We looked for ways to both soak up excessive sweetness and accentuate the wonderful textures and flavors of our Fortunato No. 4 36% milk chocolate. We knew that we wanted to do something with strawberries and the only shelf stable way to use strawberries in a product are to go with either dried or dehydrated strawberries. We didn't like the moist, gooey texture of dried strawberry, so we decided to go with dehydrated strawberries, which have a nice flaky chew. But dehydrated strawberries are very acidic. They taste like strawberries, but the don't have much natural sweetness. Hence, our use of the 36% milk chocolate here. It is a nice foil for the acidity of the dehydrated strawberries. As Javier worked on this, we came to believe that the strawberries and milk chocolate alon