Gianni's White Chocolate Ice Cream Sticks

What is it?

White chocolate contains no cocoa solids at all, only cocoa butter, milk and sugar, and that changes the shell in ways beyond the colour. It sets softer than milk chocolate, carrying more fat and milk solids with no cocoa solids to add structure, so the crack is duller and the coating gives way more readily under a bite. That leaves a white chocolate stick less brittle than its milk chocolate sibling, even where the shell is the same thickness. On flavour it runs sweeter and more buttery, with none of the bitterness that normally cuts through a vanilla centre. With no cocoa solids anywhere in the bar there's nothing working against the sugar, which is either the appeal or the objection.