[Sca-cooks] Chocolate truffles (OOP)

[Tara Sersen Boroson]

> These sound like they are a type of chocolate candy. What makes these
> a truffle and not some other kind of chocolate candy? The specific
> ingredients used? The shape?


The ingredients.  It's basically a little ball of ganache.  Sometimes
flavored with a bit of liquor or coffee or something like that;
Sometimes has a hazlenut or other goodie hidden inside;  Occasionally
dipped in chocolate, but usually just rolled in cocoa powder or chopped
nuts or coconut or something.  They are truely, truely decadant.


> And I thought "truffles" were the mushroom things found on tree roots,
> often hunted for with pigs. Am I wrong and those are called something
> else? Is the chocolate one derived from the mushroom one?


I've often wondered that myself.  I guess they're small, round and very
dark brown/black, so they look like the mushroom truffles.  Which, by
the way, I found for sale at Wegman's the other day.  If Craig wasn't
there to stop me, I think I would have bought just one to see what the
big deal really is...

-Magdalena