About DONNA ELVIRA dolceria di Roccasalva Elvira

Donna Elvira is the only confectionery to produce artisanal chocolate from Modica with the beanto-bar method, a choice dictated by the desire to achieve a real increase in quality through a deeper and more extensive research work on the raw material. Thanks to the possibility of carrying out the entire transformation process in the laboratory, today Elvira Roccasalva and her daughter Emma, who follows her in the production, have finally obtained possibility to process the rarest and most precious varieties of cocoa from all over the world. Born in Modica more than twenty years ago from a personal passion for cooking, passed through recovery of the handwritten recipes of the Sicilian conventual pastry, the production philosophy of Donna Elvira has always had as a figure the most natural approach possible to the raw material, study on the originality of traditions and the unique specificity of each of its desserts. But it is in the production of Modica chocolate, according to the ancient recipe that arrived in Sicily from Central America already at the time of Spanish domination, which Elvira Roccasalva dedicated over time the highest specialization, through a fully artisanal work that today goes through all stages of the process. Read their story