HVC Hot Cake Fresh Out of the Oven Broadleaf Gets Two New Vitolas for 2025

Last year, HVC Cigars expanded its Pan Caliente line with a darker version called HVC Hot Cake Fresh Out of the Oven Broadleaf. It was offered in two vitolas, both of which were limited to 500 boxes.

For 2025, Hot Cake Fresh out of the Oven Broadleaf is returning, but in two different vitolas. The blend remains the same: a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper over a Nicaraguan binder and fillers from the Estelí and Jalapa regions of Nicaragua. The cigars are made at the company’s Fábrica de Tabacos HVC S.A. de Reinier Lorenzo factory in Nicaragua.

As for the new vitolas, they are:

• HVC Hot Cake Fresh Out of the Oven Broadleaf Gran Torpedo (5 1/2 x 56) — $17 (Box of 25, $425)
• HVC Hot Cake Fresh Out of the Oven Broadleaf Coronas Gigantes (6 7/8 x 50) — $16 (Box of 25, $400)

Both vitolas are limited to 350 boxes, which will begin shipping in the middle of February.

“To me these cigars are like nothing else with an unique sweetness from the Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper well balance and clean on the palate,” said Reinier Lorenzo, HVC’s founder, in a press release.

For context, the vitolas from last year were Toro (5 1/2 x 54) and Torpedo (5 1/2 x 52).

In 2016, HVC Cigars released Pan Caliente, a limited edition cigar that was named after hotcakes. In 2020, the company released Hot Cake, a regular production cigar based on the limited edition. In 2023, the company created Hot Cake Golden Line, a lighter version of Hot Cake with an Ecuadorian Connecticut-seed wrapper.