Pecan pie truffles are a perfect, pecan-overloaded bite of pecan pie. A gooey, pecan-filled center wrapped in white chocolate make the perfect bite-sized snack when you’ve eaten too much at your holiday dinner.
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Continue ReadingThe ultimate holiday truffle guide, with tips and tricks for chocolate, molds, and equipment. Check out a ton of suggestions for fillings and flavors for truffles.
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Want make fancy, professional looking truffles and chocolates? Look no further! I’ll break down tempering chocolate, the required equipment, and show you how to make small batch of tempered chocolate that will leave you wowing your audience!
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Happy New Year, and a new year deserves a chocolatey close to the last year, right? Except that we’re already almost done with February, whoops. Time just gets away from me, especially around the holidays. But I figure there’s never a bad time for a round-up of truffles recipes! Every holiday season I always have to have a mix of old classics and try out some new ones in the hopes of finding some new faves. They’d also be great for Valentine’s Day if you want to put a little homemade spin on the traditional chocolate gifting in February. Here’s…
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Luscious dark chocolate truffle ganache laced with a subtle red wine, added to the center of molds to make beautiful truffles, perfect for holiday gifting.
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Merry Christmas (and Happy Holidays) to all! And to all a chocolatey night! Those are the best kinds of nights aren’t they? Here’s the wrap-up for this year to keep track of this year’s round of yummies! 2017 Features: [New!] maple bacon milk chocolate truffles Free dipped truffles with a creamy maple bacon center and sprinkled with bacon and salt The centers would be for molds, but I kinda like the salty bacony topping on the free-dipped truffles [New!] cinna-bun white chocolate truffles A slightly crunchy cinnamon cookie and cream cheese center makes for a wonderful bite of a cinnamon…
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Orange orange orange! This was one of the first recipes that made me think I could make “fancy” truffles, and by that I mean coated truffles as opposed to the more homemade style that’s a firm ganache rolled in cocoa powder or powdered sugar. It’s the zest that really makes these orange-y! And they look adorable with some candied orange peel as garnish. If you’re in a pinch and don’t have another orange to zest, or used the rest of your peel to make those candied orange peels, then you can zest the boiled rind. It’s just a little harder…
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This is part two of the Cooper’s Hawk Winery and Restaurant review, focusing on the winery! Read part one here. There was just too much to throw into one post so I wanted to separate out the two to do them each justice. When you first walk into the Ashburn, VA location, you walk into the winery. There’s some cute novelty wine items in the front, including some entertaining wine pourers featuring a variety of animals, and also some zombies. All of the stoppers pour from the subjects mouths are are quite festive. They use their pourers at the bar,…
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This jazz festival event is apparently annual at Lake Anne out in Reston, VA, though this is the first time I’ve gone. We went as part of our awesome labor day weekend, the same one that brought you posts on Reese’s peanut butter bars, and MD Renaissance Festival. It was a crazy weekend packed full of everything: breweries, a wine tasting, the jazz festival, an escape room, dinner at a hot pot restaurant, the renaissance fair, and a ton of board games! The reason we even went out to Lake Anne was because I had heard of a chocolate and wine…
