Chocolate truffle

Chocolate truffle
Type Confection
Place of origin Chambéry, France
Region or state Savoie
Main ingredients Chocolate ganache, chocolate or cocoa powder
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A chocolate truffle is a type of chocolate confectionery, traditionally made with a chocolate ganache centre coated in chocolate, cocoa powder or chopped toasted nuts (typically hazelnuts, almonds or coconut), usually in a spherical, conical, or curved shape.

Their name derives from their traditional shape, which resembles the truffle, an edible part of the tuber fungus.

Varieties

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

Notes

  1. "Pralines VS Truffles | makingchocolates". Makingchocolates.wordpress.com. 2011-04-16. Retrieved 2013-05-27.
  2. Chocolate, Cocoa, and Confectionery: Science and Technology by Bernard W. Minifie (1999), page 545.
  3. Barron, Cheryll Aimee (September 25, 1988). "Madam Cocolat". The New York Times.
  4. "Sweet surrender", Los Angeles Times, February 8, 2006
  5. "Fine Artisanal Belgian Chocolates". Chocolatsmeurens.com. 2009-03-25. Retrieved 2013-05-27.

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