Chocolate Truffles

None of Saveur's recipes that I've tried have ever turned out that great. Maybe it's me? Maybe it's our crappy oven? Luckily, these truffles don't require the use of an oven and they turned out surprisingly YUMM-O! I followed the recipe to a T except for the fact that I used 2 cups of oats instead of 2 1/2. And who needs a food processor when a no-name version of the Magic Bullet pulses the oats down perfectly?! The end product was a rich-tasting, sweet but not sickly sweet coconut-y truffle that tasted best straight out of the fridge (i.e. hard rather than soft). Buy cute jars from a Euro/Dollar shop, fill 'em with these babies and gift 'em to all your friends for their birthdays! That's what I did, heehee.

Freestyle Chocolate Tour Berlin

Before my recent 5-day jaunt in Berlin, I had researched and made note of chocolate shops I wanted to visit. Here are some of the things I tried: Dark Chocolate Ice Cream from Art en Chocolat, some kinda truffle with crispy gold-coloured flakes on top from Werkstatt der Süße, and a nougat-filled macaron-looking mini-sandwich goodie from Schokogalerie.



Hands down, the ice cream was my fave of the three. It was far from creamy and had more of an intensely bitter flavour. I can't even remember what the truffle tasted like so it couldn't have been all that (though I've heard that Werkstatt der Süße does have some amazing cakes). And the nougat-filled goodie was interesting because both the top and bottom pieces were similar in texture to meringue. The lady working at Schokogalerie told me that it was a Michel Cluizel product that had been sent in from France. Mm-hmm. Let me just end off by saying (in the words of Ates), "Chocolate is my life!!!!!!"