Don't like white chocolate? Try it roasted.

I don't really like white chocolate. It's too sweet,and lacks any real flavour aside from vanilla. That changed whenI met Johnny Oran.

He's theco-owner ofLicia Ruby, a new Windsor-Essexfood company he runswith his wife, Elise Keller.In addition to small-scale catering and pop-up dinners,their signature food productis a white chocolate bar. Aroastedwhite chocolate bar.

Regular chocolate contains bothcocoa butter and cocoa solids the solids are what makes it brown. Whitechocolatecontains just thecocoa butter, which isn't brown.So when you roast white chocolate at the right temperature, the butter melts and the sugar caramelizes.

Roasting white chocolate is a technique I've seen in desserts at high-end restaurants. Because of its brittle nature, however, it's usually found in bark, shardor crumbled form.

As far as I can tell, selling roasted white chocolate in barformis much more rare and it's alot more complicated than simply putting a bar of white chocolate in the oven.

From start to finish, it takes Johnny and his co-chef, Chris Chittle, about three days to make the bars.The final productlooks nothing like white chocolate it'sactuallylight brown.

As for the taste,Licia Ruby's bars arelight and a little grainy in texture, melting inyour mouth like an Aero Bar. WhenI took a bar around the newsroom and asked people to describe the flavour,"caramel" and "toffee" were some of the words people used and they're totally right. The process of roasting white chocolate adds a totally new dimension to the confection.

I met up with Johnny this week to learn about theirsignature offering. Click on the audio player to hear what I found.

Windsor Morning7:50Food with Jonathan Pinto - Roasted White Chocolate

White chocolate? Jonathan Pinto isn't a fan. Roasted white chocolate? He loves it. This morning, he told us about the roasted white chocolate bars produced by the Licia Ruby Food Company.

Want to try roasted white chocolate?

Licia Ruby debuted at the Walkerville Night Market earlier this summer.They'll be at the market again this Friday.

You can also find their chocolate at The Little White Kitchen in Windsor at 543Lincoln Rd.and at Dressed By An Olive'sTecumseh location at366 Manning Rd.