Ever since living all these years abroad, away from my country where I grew up; I start to remember the variety of food I had in my youth. As a child one of the treats where those “Mohrenchopf” in colored aluminum foils I vividly remember. I have not eaten those delicious sweets in all those years and when my good friend P made a trip back to Switzerland I asked him to get me some “Mohrenchopf”, exactly the ones I used to get as a child. To my delight the family owned company still existed and P brought me a four pack.

Basically the sweets are made of sugar, glucose, fruit sugar and egg white. The molten sugar is mixed with the fruit sugar and glucose and boiled to syrup. Then it will be mixed with eggsnow and as a meringue piped onto wafers. The whole is then covered with a thin layer of chocolate and set aside to rest before being covered in a protective alu foil.

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The company was founded by Theodor Ammann in 1949 during a difficult time since the Second World War finished four years before. With some borrowed money he started in a cellar in Konolfingen, Switzerland to produce with home made machines the sweets known to so many Swiss. Until the year 1959 all was made purely by hand; piping and covering with chocolate. As the business grew, machines had to replace time consuming hand work to cater the demand. In 1965 a new production facility was opened in Heimberg, the current production origin.
Today Chocolat Ammann AG is producing close to 300’000 “Mohrenkoenig” every day! 60 years in business and in hearts of many Swiss; quality prevails. I can’t wait to visit the production facility on my next trip to Switzerland.

CHOCOLAT AMMANN AG
Schulgässli 23
3627 Heimberg
Tel: +41 (0)33 439 0 440
Fax: +41(0)33 439 0 441
info@ammannag.ch