Chocolate truffles coated with cocoa powder.

Chocolate Truffles

Chocolate truffles are a group of chocolate confectionery, traditionally made with a chocolate ganache center coated in chocolate or cocoa powder, usually in a spherical, conical or curved shape. Other fillings may replace the ganache: cream, melted chocolate, caramel, nuts, almonds, berries or other assorted sweet fruits, nougat, fudge or toffee, mint, chocolate chips, marshmallow and popularly liquor. They are named for their resemblance to the truffle fungus. Download high resolution version (3008x2000, 4517 KB) A bowl of chocolate truffles. ... Download high resolution version (3008x2000, 4517 KB) A bowl of chocolate truffles. ... Image File history File linksMetadata ChocolateTruffles. ... Image File history File linksMetadata ChocolateTruffles. ... For other uses, see Chocolate (disambiguation). ... It has been suggested that Candy be merged into this article or section. ... Ganache is a French word (literally translated as fool) for a mixture of chocolate and heavy cream. ... Cocoa beans in a cacao pod Cocoa is the dried and partially fermented fatty seed of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made. ... Cans of cream. ... A piece of caramel confectionery. ... Look up nut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Binomial name (Mill. ... This article is about the fruit. ... For other uses, see Fruit (disambiguation). ... Nougat is a term used to describe a variety of similar confectioneries made with sugar or honey, roasted nuts (almonds, walnuts, pistachios or hazelnuts are common, but not peanuts) and sometimes chopped candied fruit. ... For other uses, see Fudge (disambiguation). ... English Toffee (the chewy sort) in cellophane wrapping Toffee is a confection made by boiling molasses or sugar along with butter, milk and occasionally flour. ... For other uses, see Mint (disambiguation). ... Normal sized semi-sweet chocolate chips Chocolate chips are small chunks of chocolate. ... For the plant, see Althaea (genus). ... Spirits redirects here. ... Species Tuber aestivum Tuber brumale Tuber gibbosum Tuber himalayensis Tuber magnatum Tuber melanosporum Tuber mesentericum Tuber oregonense Tuber sinensis The true truffles are a group of several valuable and highly sought-after edible species of underground ascomycetes belonging to the fungal genus Tuber. ...

There are three main types of chocolate truffles: American, European, and Swiss:

• The "American truffle" is a half-egg shaped chocolate-coated truffle, a mixture of dark or milk chocolates with butterfat and, in some cases, hardened coconut oil. Joseph Schmidt, a San Francisco chocolatier, and founder of Joseph Schmidt Confections, is credited with its creation in the mid-1980s.^[1]. A Canadian variation of this, known as the Harvey truffle, includes the addition of graham crumbs, and peanut butter.
• The "European truffle" is made with syrup and a base made up of cocoa powder, milk powder, fats, and other such ingredients to create an oil-in-water type emulsion.
• The "Swiss truffle" is made by combining melted chocolate into a boiling mixture of dairy cream and butter, which is poured into molds to set before sprinkling with cocoa powder. Unlike the previous two kinds of truffles, these have a very short shelf-life and must be consumed within a few days of making. ^[2]

Truffle makers

There are numerous producers of chocolate truffles, including the following chocolatiers:

• Godiva
• Joseph Schmidt Confections
• Lindt
• Laura Secord Chocolates
• See's Candies
• Valrhona
• Hershey
• Seattle Chocolates
• Donaldson's Finer Chocolates
• Napa Valley Chocolate Company

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Popular culture

• The Beatles' song 'Savoy Truffle' takes its name from a variety of truffle.
• The Truffle Shuffle possibly originated from Chunk's desire for truffles in The Goonies

The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 as part of their first tour of the United States, promoting their first hit single there, I Want To Hold Your Hand. ... Savoy Truffle is a song written by George Harrison and performed by the Beatles on their self-titled album (the White Album). Harrison wrote the song as a tribute to his friend Eric Claptons chocolate addiction, and indeed he derived the title and many of the lyrics from a... Chunk performs the famous Truffle Shuffle. ... The Goonies was a hit movie in 1985, directed by Richard Donner. ...

References

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Chocolate Truffle

1. ^ "Sweet surrender", Los Angeles Times, February 8, 2006 [1]
2. ^ Chocolate, Cocoa, and Confectionery: Science and Technology by Bernard W. Minifie (1999), page 545.