Scotch Bacon Truffles

These are the truffles that that Andy and I made a little film about. I had originally wanted to make Bacon and Bourbon truffles, but we didn't have bourbon, so scotch would suffice. The scotch was gifted to Andy by a coworker and was some pretty good stuff. He was reluctant to let me use some, but finally gave into the cause.

In the end these turned out well, but somewhere in the ganache process my chocolate did not want to mix. I'll have to look into the science of it, but I am thinking the scotch was the culprit. Chocolate and water do NOT mix and because liquor has water in it that may have been it. This is exactly why I like to experiment though. Sometimes I make great breakthroughs, and other times I fail miserably. These truffles were not a complete fail, as they did finally work out, but I don't know how much I'll be working with scotch in chocolate again.

The final truffle came out quite nice. I think I put too many bacon pieces into the ganache, but that can easily be fixed. Otherwise, it had a great bacon flavor with a nice aftertaste of scotch. The scotch aftertaste was very faint, but it was there and it created a nice finish to the flavors. This is my second try at a bacon truffle and I like it. I think it works!