Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Chocolate Truffles NYC Are The Best Dessert

By Allyson Burke


This confectionery surpasses all for its exorbitantly flavorful richness in the single bite, a mouthful of absolute sensation for sweet lovers. Your taste buds will never be the same and your guests will be impressed. Rich in chocolate, butter, cream, and wonderfully associated with charm and elegance, chocolate truffles NYC are loved by lovers of what is passionate and decadent. This treat is for romance, connissieurship, the child in you, and getting your expert chef on.

They are but a creamy, buttery ganache rolled in ground nuts, or cocoa, or sprinkled with powdered sugar and placed in a fancy box. However, either as a candy shop specialty, gourmet end to a quality meal, or sent to your mailbox, truffles have become a wildly varied confection. A multitude of flavorings, kinds of cocoa, coatings, additions, and finishing touches abound. A box of these treats means something unique and sensational.

Twice a year, especially, the signature versions, hand-crafted make a huge splash. Christmas and Valentines' are both times of year when these little beauties are thoroughly enjoyed, especially a hand rolled box custom designed for its content. There is almost no way to make that very special someone feel more desired, loved, or admired. You can purchase a little box at a sweet store, make them yourself at home, or dive into a sumptuous dozen made to order online.

As always when cooking, the best ingredients ultimately make the best candy. These must have fine, creamy butter, refined sugar, and most of all a brand of cocoa that is fresh and flavorful. Making them is simple, and adding pretty papers and wrappings afterwards gives texture and new color to a treat that is nearly two centuries old. The ingredients chosen will make or break the sweet ganache at its center.

Both our sweet version and the crusty grey, brown tuber dug from the ground by pigs in forests, bear the same name. It is a word derived from the Latin word for tuber or lump, and it calls to mind the mushroom like appearance which both the sweet and the delicacy have in common. Although many prefer them larger, most sweets will be the size of a walnut, covered in a favorite mix of sprinkled sweet meats or powdered cocoa or sugar, and served after or with dessert.

Recipes for the delicious mouthful of butter and chocolate have spread from France all over Europe and to America, where cultures vary the recipe and ingredients. Many will add liqueur, rum or brandy to spike the truffle and make them extra delicious.

Vegans have nothing to fear. There are wonderful vegan versions of these treats to enjoy which are made with almond butters, carob and rice milk and which are perfectly delicious. These make a superb, unusual gift as well. Meat eaters will also find them delicious and the adventurous may even like them better!

Gift giving becomes even more fun when you have made them yourself, but shopping on line is easy and there are many choices. Select special coatings and ingredients to customize your order. Chocolate truffles NYC make your very special holiday meal that much nicer and sweeter.




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