Chocolate Sticks

Chocolate sticks, also called batons, are bars of bake-stable chocolate made to go inside croissants, pains au chocolat and other laminated pastries. They hold their shape through proving and baking, so each pastry gets a defined chocolate centre rather than chocolate that melts away into the dough.

Which Brands of Chocolate Stick Do We Stock?

Callebaut, Valrhona, Luker and Villars. Callebaut Dark Chocolate Bakestable Croissants Sticks are 8cm long. Valrhona offers its Dark Chocolate Batons Petit Pains 48% alongside Raspberry Inspiration and Gianduja Style sticks, and the Luker Chocolate Misterio Baking Sticks are a 78mm dark chocolate for bakery.

Are There Flavoured or Filled Sticks for Croissants?

Yes. Villars makes blond, white and pistachio sticks, plus a milk stick filled with hazelnut praline and a dark stick filled with coffee. With a range of cocoa profiles to choose from, you can match flavour intensity, style and cost-in-use to the recipe, and because every stick is a uniform size, portioning stays consistent from one batch to the next, whether you bake by hand or at volume.