Ahhh, the wonderful world of chocolate! Well my chocolate obsession has finally resulted in this, a blog. :) There is a lot to learn about chocolate, much experimenting to be done, lots of tasting, and now it is all coming together here.
This was one of my first experiments. It is a white chocolate ganache with lemon and honey dipped in white chocolate. I topped it with a bit of dark chocolate and some lemon zest. The taste was very delicate and much better than I would have expected. Most people were surprised by this truffle because they were not expecting the flavors to pop like they did. I will definitely make it again, but next time I will use more chocolate to lemon and honey ratio. The ganache was almost too soft to dip and that caused me a lot of problems.
This one is another white chocolate ganache with lemon and honey, except I dipped it in dark chocolate. The dark chocolate worked at holding the soft ganache together a bit better than dipping it in white chocolate.
This truffle is a dark chocolate ganache with cinnamon and ceyenne pepper. I have heard of this combination before so I decided to give it a try myself. It was surprisingly easy to get the flavor ratio of cinnamon to ceyenne pepper. The ganache also hardened really well for dipping, which made me happy since I had trouble with dipping the white chocolate honey lemon ganache. This was also a crowd pleaser. Although, who I am kidding, chocolate always makes people happy. :) I think people were shocked (in a good way) about the after taste kick that the ceyenne pepper gave. It was a pleasant way to finish off a piece of chocolate and have the flavor linger around for a little longer.
Ahhh, the wonderful world of chocolate! Well my chocolate obsession has finally resulted in this, a blog. :) There is a lot to learn about chocolate, much experimenting to be done, lots of tasting, and now it is all coming together here.
This was one of my first experiments. It is a white chocolate ganache with lemon and honey dipped in white chocolate. I topped it with a bit of dark chocolate and some lemon zest. The taste was very delicate and much better than I would have expected. Most people were surprised by this truffle because they were not expecting the flavors to pop like they did. I will definitely make it again, but next time I will use more chocolate to lemon and honey ratio. The ganache was almost too soft to dip and that caused me a lot of problems.
This one is another white chocolate ganache with lemon and honey, except I dipped it in dark chocolate. The dark chocolate worked at holding the soft ganache together a bit better than dipping it in white chocolate.
This truffle is a dark chocolate ganache with cinnamon and ceyenne pepper. I have heard of this combination before so I decided to give it a try myself. It was surprisingly easy to get the flavor ratio of cinnamon to ceyenne pepper. The ganache also hardened really well for dipping, which made me happy since I had trouble with dipping the white chocolate honey lemon ganache. This was also a crowd pleaser. Although, who I am kidding, chocolate always makes people happy. :) I think people were shocked (in a good way) about the after taste kick that the ceyenne pepper gave. It was a pleasant way to finish off a piece of chocolate and have the flavor linger around for a little longer.
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