Todays class was chocolate truffles - smooth, roughly shaped little mouthfuls of chocolate. A chocolate truffle is traditionally made with a chocolate ganache centre which may be coated in chocolate, icing sugar, cocoa powder or chopped toasted nuts such as hazelnuts, almonds or coconut. Truffles can be made with various flavourings. Variations in flavour can be achieved with the addition of honey, alcohol, nut pralines, etc or through infusion with herbs & spices.
Truffles were named for their similarity in shape to the tuberous fungal truffles that grow symbiotically amongst the roots of oak, hazel, poplar & beech trees & are foraged using pigs.
Seven varieties of truffle were produced.
Truffles from L-R:
milk chocolate honey
butterscotch
lemon & cardamom
mountain pepper
coriander praline
citrus
You may be thinking "that's only six truffle varieties" & you'd be correct. Unfortunately I melted the champagne truffles on my walk home!
Sending lots of birthday wishes to my brothers in-law Nick & Mark. Happy Birthday boys.
Looks like your having the time of your life down there in Melbourne Steve fire chief from Rathmines sends all his best
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