Tingly Chocolate Toffee Brittle (50Hertz × NeoCocoa)
The wait is over — our fan-favorite Tingly Brittle is back for the cool season (Oct–Mar) or while supplies last!
Handcrafted in small batches in San Francisco with award-winning chocolatier Christine Doerr of NeoCocoa, each piece begins with buttery brown-sugar toffee, roasted cacao nibs, and a touch of sea salt. The toffee is infused with the bright, citrusy tingle of 50Hertz green Sichuan pepper. Each piece is then finished with smooth dark milk chocolate made with real cocoa butter and vanilla bean.
The result? A crispy, tingly brittle where sweet meets savory, East meets West, and comfort meets curiosity. Every bite melts, crunches, and tingles!
The Story Behind Our Collaboration
This one-of-a-kind treat began when 50Hertz co-founder Yao Zhao teamed up with NeoCocoa’s Christine Doerr, a fifteen-time Good Food Award winner and one of Dessert Professional’s Top 10 Chocolatiers in North America.
Together, we asked: What if Sichuan pepper belonged in chocolate, too?
Months of recipe testing led to this perfect balance of buttery toffee, smooth chocolate, and a gentle electric hum — the world’s first tingly brittle.
Note that this brittle is NOT HOT, it's TINGLY!
Packaged in our air-tight, stand-up pouch.
Net weight 3oz.
Ingredients: Dark milk chocolate (cacao beans, cocoa butter, cane sugar, milk, sunflower lecithin, vanilla beans), brown sugar, butter, cacao nib, green Sichuan pepper, sea salt.
Contains dairy. No gluten or wheat.
Store in a cool, dry place.
1. Sichuan pepper has zero heat and is not spicy at all! People confuse it because it is often paired with chili peppers and chili is the one that brings the heat
2. Sichuan pepper is not a pepper, it belongs to the citrus family
3. Sichuan “peppercorn” is a common misnomer because these dried Sichuan peppers are not peppercorn. They’re the dried husk of the Sichuan pepper berry. A sign of superior quality is the lack of black seeds.
4. Sichuan pepper is not just from Sichuan, but from a collection of places in southwestern China: Chongqing, Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, etc.
5. We believe that the correct name for it is actually Flower Pepper which is a direct translation from the Chinese term hua jiao.
The only problem with these is that they are addictive…. I bought three bags and they are gone. Trying to pace myself for next order…
Love these things. Perfect pairing with an Asian beer to start the night off on the right foot. Addicting and delicious.
This toffee is so crave-able! The sweetness mixed with the tingling bite of the szechuan peppers is really intriguing, causing you to really savor each bite. It’s a terrific little sweet-spicy to end a meal!