{"id":6246,"date":"2025-10-22T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/art-style\/donna-evira-cioccolato-di-modica\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T23:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T22:04:28","slug":"donna-elvira-modica-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/en\/products\/donna-elvira-modica-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Donna Elvira Modica Chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-incipit\">In Modica, since 1999 the Donna Elvira confectionery has been handcrafting the famous Modica IGP chocolate, totally &#8220;bean to bar&#8221; thanks to the selection of the best cocoa beans from all over the world and the touch of charm of its muse Emma Petriliggieri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donna Elvira was born in <strong>Modica<\/strong>, a place where the profession of confectioner is rooted in the deepest soul of the splendid <strong>baroque city <\/strong>thanks to its long tradition in this art, and since she was a child she could not escape the charm of the <strong>cocoa epic<\/strong> of which today she is a passionate cultivator and ambassador in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following her passion for the \u201csweet\u201d world, Elvira Roccasalva\u2019s life changed in <strong>1999<\/strong> when she had the opportunity to take over an <strong>artisan biscuit factory<\/strong> in the historic center of Modica, where, like an alchemist with the Holy Grail, she began to study the handwritten recipes of the ancient Sicilian conventual pastry masters.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"double\">\r\n  \t<figure>\r\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets597-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets597-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets597-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets597-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets597.jpg 934w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>        \r\n    <\/figure>\r\n    <figure>\r\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets680-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets680-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets680-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets680-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets680.jpg 934w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>    <\/figure>   \r\n<\/figure>\r\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Each bar requires a dedication that reaches down to the most in\ufb01nitesimal of ingredients and processing steps, dedicating the right amount of time, rest and a lot of heart.<\/p>\n<cite>(Emma Petriliggieri)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Little by little, Elvira becomes more and more passionate about chocolate, that of Modica, unique in the world, for its history, tradition and for the<strong> cold processing<\/strong> of cocoa, a direct descendant of that used by the Mesoamerican populations and spread in Europe through the Spanish \u201cconquistadores\u201d in the <strong>16th century<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, Donna Elvira in her small factory begins to experiment with <strong>artisanal chocolate<\/strong> and to directly select the most prized varieties of cocoa &#8211; from Colombia, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Peru, but also from Vietnam, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Madagascar &#8211; giving life to the only Modica company whose production is <strong>entirely bean-to-bar<\/strong>, or from the cocoa bean to the chocolate bar, with direct management of the entire supply chain.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"double\">\r\n  \t<figure>\r\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Sicilia-Secrets6908-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Sicilia-Secrets6908-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Sicilia-Secrets6908-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Sicilia-Secrets6908-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Sicilia-Secrets6908-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Sicilia-Secrets6908.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>        \r\n    <\/figure>\r\n    <figure>\r\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Sicilia-Secrets7235-1-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Sicilia-Secrets7235-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Sicilia-Secrets7235-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Sicilia-Secrets7235-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Sicilia-Secrets7235-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Sicilia-Secrets7235-1.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>    <\/figure>   \r\n<\/figure>\r\n\n\n\n<p>Since <strong>2023<\/strong>, Donna Elvira has been supported by her daughter <strong>Emma<\/strong>, \u200b\u200ba creative and interior designer, who has brought a<strong> touch of charming style <\/strong>to the production, to the sweet shop, and, above all, to the refined packaging, so beautiful that you almost don&#8217;t want to open it to continue admiring it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emma also oversaw the interior design project for the <strong>Donna Elvira boutique <\/strong>located on Corso Umberto in the center of Modica: a space that goes beyond the world of chocolate, uniting the one of interior design with Pierre Frey fabrics and wallpapers and Dom Edizioni furnishings and that of sweets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Production takes place nearby in the <strong>laboratory<\/strong>, where Elvira, Emma and their team take care of all the stages of the process: from the <strong>selection<\/strong> to the <strong>roasting<\/strong>, from the manual <strong>grinding<\/strong> of the cocoa, just as the noble Spanish families once did to obtain the grain, to the <strong>milling<\/strong> that gives life to the cocoa liquor from which, finally, the bars are born.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"double\">\r\n  \t<figure>\r\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets744-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets744-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets744-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets744-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets744.jpg 934w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>        \r\n    <\/figure>\r\n    <figure>\r\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets102-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets102-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets102-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets102-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets102.jpg 934w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>    <\/figure>   \r\n<\/figure>\r\n\n\n\n<p>A <strong>tasting<\/strong> of Donna Elvira <strong>Single Origin bars<\/strong> is a wonderful journey around the world: you can taste, for example, <strong>Fortunato n. 4<\/strong>, which comes from the rarest cocoa, the legendary Peruvian Pure Nacional with white and purple seeds, whose mother plant was rediscovered only a few years ago on Don Fortunato&#8217;s farm lost in the heart of the Mara\u00f1\u00f3n River Canyon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or you can taste <strong>Wild Beniano<\/strong>, which everyone thought was extinct, and which instead survived in the heart of the Bolivian rainforest, or, again, the great Mexicans, such as <strong>Soconusco Wild <\/strong>and <strong>Carmelo<\/strong>, so pure and clean that they convinced Donna Elvira to produce the first &#8216;zero dosage&#8217; bars (i.e. without added sugar).<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"double\">\r\n  \t<figure>\r\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets544-2-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets544-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets544-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets544-2-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets544-2.jpg 934w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>        \r\n    <\/figure>\r\n    <figure>\r\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Sicilia-Secrets6906-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Sicilia-Secrets6906-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Sicilia-Secrets6906-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Sicilia-Secrets6906-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Sicilia-Secrets6906-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Sicilia-Secrets6906.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/>    <\/figure>   \r\n<\/figure>\r\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to chocolate, in the Donna Elvira confectionery you can also find many other <strong>handmade products<\/strong> of the Sicilian confectionery tradition, such as <strong>nougat<\/strong><em>s<\/em>, <strong>jams<\/strong>, traditional <strong>almond pastes<\/strong> such as Frutta Martorana, and many types of traditional sweets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just as you can buy <strong>special editions<\/strong> made in collaboration with brands that embrace the same philosophy as the chocolate flavored with <em>Timor<\/em> coffee by <strong>Giamaica Caff\u00e8<\/strong> or with the Aromatic Black Pepper of Sarawak selected by <strong>Maricha<\/strong>, or the Chocolate Grappa produced by <strong>Distilleria Gualco<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure>\r\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets642-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets642-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets642-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets642-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/siciliasecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Donna-Elvira-Modica-Sicilia-Secrets642.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>        \r\n<\/figure>\r\n\n\n\n<p>Each product is a small, sweet and colorful <strong>baroque jewel<\/strong>, because at Donna Elvira what it is good is also beautyful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Secret<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Donna Elvira has started a process of recovery of the \u201ccold chocolate\u201d method. This processing method seemed, in fact, destined to disappear because with the Industrial Revolution new processes such as conching and tempering (to make the crystals and particles of chocolate as fine as possible) had become popular, which changed its taste and consistency. In cold chocolate, however, at a temperature between 45 and 50 degrees, the cocoa mass is combined with sugar so that the latter does not melt and remains in the form of crystals, giving the chocolate a characteristic \u201crough\u201d appearance. 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person; visit with tasting of single-origin chocolate paired with spirits 30 euro per person<br><a href=\"https:\/\/donnaelvira.it\/shop-online\/\">Shop online<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Modica, since 1999 the Donna Elvira confectionery has been handcrafting the famous Modica IGP chocolate, totally &#8220;bean to bar&#8221; thanks to the selection of the best cocoa beans from all over the world and the touch of charm of its muse Emma Petriliggieri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[59,121,71,84],"class_list":["post-6246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-products","tag-activity","tag-baroque-unesco","tag-cafe-en","tag-natural-local-products"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized 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