Taking into consideration the market of confectionery products, it was a great challenge to create a "spongy" product that would be easily recognizable in its taste and yet significantly different from all other products currently present on the market.
Since Slavonija (region where the town of Vinkovci is located) is widely recognized as a part of Croatia where most things are handmade and people take great pride of their tradition, we have tried the same by integrating different flavors and we succeeded in the same.
As you may know, current consumption of "spongy" confectionery products is at its heights, making it rather hard to enter the market. However, we had struggled and created a small cake (bite sized) approx. 50mm in diameter, covered in cocoa topping and shredded coconut, as you can see from the attached pictures.
Hence the name "čupavci" - meaning ragged - referring to shredded coconut with which the cakes are covered.
As the standard ingredient of our products we're using agar powder (as an alternative to gelatin). Since it does not contain any calories and/or fats it can be widely used in the production of confectionery.
Our entire production cycle is handmade, so each and every piece that we create is unique, and as you know in today's world handmade products are rare and wanted.
So far, we produce them in four flavors:
- banana, coconut, raspberry and orange.