Beautiful World Of Champagne Chocolate Truffles

By Katrina Wheeler


Champagne chocolate truffles were first made by Adolf Teuscher in 1947, but they still amaze with incredible complexity of tastes. Sweet and delicate combination of the highest quality, aromatic, dark chocolates and luxurious golden champagne is ideally balanced and really makes the first grade gastronomic pleasure you should not miss.

Original dessert was made using dark chocolate ganache, with a champagne cream filling. Everything was surrounded with smooth milk chocolates and dusted with powdered sugar. This traditional recipe is popular all around the world, and you will find numerous variations and attempts to recreate the original. The important thing is that you will enjoy in every single one of them.

Sometimes you will find beautifully shaped truffles, but originals are always hand-made, and irregularly shaped, just like the real truffles. White or dark or even milk chocolates are always so tasteful, especially in this lovely combination. Some truffles are even decorated with eatable gold, and they really make highly luxurious desserts.

There are numerous recipes for making this delicious dessert. Some use a white chocolate instead, and in some a little cognac is added, too. Some recipes are quite complicated, and others are really simple. In any case, you will certainly enjoy in every one of them, and you can also try to create your own recipes, adapting them to your taste.

Here is one very simple recipe for making these lovely sweets. The wine has to be reduced at half first, and this means that you will get fifty milliliters of reduced wine to melt different kinds of very dark chocolates in, all together about three hundred grams. Add fifty grams of good butter and leave the mixture to cool. Make small balls and dust them with powdered sugar or cocoa. If you prefer sweeter desserts, add sugar in wine when reducing it.

Another interesting recipe is more like the original. You need to make champagne cream first. Add some sugar in the vine and reduce it on low heat. Mix some butter with a little bit of powdered sugar, add cold reduced vine and deep freeze the mixture. Melt your favorite dark chocolates with a little bit of cream on steam. You should get a thick paste when cold. Form little balls from frozen mixture and wrap it in dark paste. Roll each ball in powdered sugar.

You can use milk chocolate instead, but dark one is more aromatic and much healthier. This dessert is rich, smooth and full of calories, but extremely delicate and luxuriously tasteful. You will certainly enjoy every single bite. Highest quality truffles are always hand-made, and they are not cheap. Nevertheless, it will be wisely spent money, and you certainly will not regret it.

Champagne chocolate truffles make luxurious gift every person will appreciate. Surprise your dear people with such exquisite dessert packed in very appealing box. These beautiful little things are so incredibly smooth and tasty, full of the most sophisticated taste that your gift will surely be highly appreciated. You could also surprise your own palate once in a while, you certainly deserve it.




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