"It's a shame, because Mozart balls are an Austrian product," head confectioner and owner Wolfgang Leschanz, 75, told AFP. At his firm, 10 time-honoured steps are required to make one single ...

Mozart chocolate balls filled with marzipan, pistachio, and rich almond and hazelnut nougat. Family-owned Leschanz still painstakingly makes the Mozartkugel chocolates by hand before putting them ...

At a small high-end confectionery in Vienna, chefs put the finishing touches to one of Austria's signature souvenirs: Mozart chocolate balls filled with marzipan, pistachio, and rich almond and ...

Even German heavyweight Reber, which produces 500,000 balls daily just across the border from Salzburg, is allowed to call its Mozart balls "authentic", even if it cannot use the term "original". ...