What exactly are “dragees” and what happens in the sugar or chocolate coating process?
In large rotating coating tanks made from copper or stainless steel, the mass to be used (chocolate, treacle, etc) constantly drizzled onto the core (nuts, biscuits, rum shell… ) and are in this way “coated”. This is the reason for the most sugar or chocolate coated products having a smooth round surface. Sugar-coated chocolate buttons, peanuts coated in caramelised sugar such as Casali Aschanti, but also nuts coated in sugar or chocolate also count as dragees.
