How many calories in a pain au chocolat
A pain au chocolat has 270 kcal, with 15 g of fat.
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To burn it off
It's croissant dough, so lots of butter, with two sticks of dark chocolate baked inside. That's why it's a little more than a plain croissant.
A bakery one is 270 kcal. The mini ones from a hotel breakfast are 120 each, and they rarely come alone.
In the south west of France they call it a chocolatine. It's the same number, whatever you call it.
Tips
- 1Take one mini instead of a full size one with your coffee.
- 2Have it with a yoghurt or some fruit, so it's breakfast rather than just a pastry.
Where it comes from
Like the croissant, it has Austrian roots. August Zang's Viennese bakery, opened in Paris around 1839, sold Viennese pastries, and food historians see a chocolate filled bun from that tradition as its ancestor. Paris calls it pain au chocolat, while the south west says chocolatine, a quarrel that has even reached the French parliament.
Where does our food come from? · Source: Sortir à Paris, Croissants and pain au chocolat: two pastries that aren't so French after all
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Questions
Is a pain au chocolat more than a croissant?
A bit. A bakery croissant is about 250 kcal, a pain au chocolat about 270.
How many calories in a mini pain au chocolat?
About 120 kcal each.
Is a chocolatine the same thing?
Yes, that's just what it's called in the south west of France.
How much chocolate is in a pain au chocolat?
Just two thin sticks of dark chocolate, so less than people expect. Most of the 270 kcal is still the buttery dough around them.
Why is a pain au chocolat square and not curved?
It's rolled around the chocolate sticks instead of being shaped from a triangle like a croissant. Same dough, folded a different way, so it bakes into a rectangle.
