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[oakenguy]

My commissioned gift boxes are done! Each of the truffles have a bit of a flaw (the chambourd truffles should've had more cream, the mocha-espresso truffles should've had more chocolate and/or a bit less coffee brandy, and a higher grade of cocoa powder for the coating, and I STILL can't do decent bases for hard chocolate shells), but I'm feeling good--they have that OOMPH that my last batch didn't. And because I had slightly more mocha-espresso choc than I should've, each box has seventeen pieces. An "Oaken Dozen".

Oh, and I was worried that I was making the white chocolate molds too thin, but it turned out really neat--when I added the dark chocolate filling, the dark began to show through a little in streaks and swirls, in a yummy marbleized pattern. I take back all the nasty things I said about working with white chocolate!

Now I just need the gift boxes to survive the day in the fridge and the bus ride to Harvard Square...

Comments

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

but the little flaws will make the truffles collectors' items!

oh. wait.

yummy

[lilacsinmarch.livejournal.com]

And now I have an urgent need to eat some chocolate.

[devina.livejournal.com]

I hope you saved one to bring with you Sat! Still coming?

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

I can't! :( It looks now like I'll be busy running back and forth across Cambridge all day. Rain check?

[meesto.livejournal.com]

This would be the point where it does not make any sense at all to request that you express-mail chocolates round the planet.

Yummy and lovely sounding!

[amyura.livejournal.com]

Who commissioned them? Will you take more orders? (says she who is on a diet and obviously failing miserably)

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Hee hee hee...they were commissioned by my friend Elizabeth, who remembers the truffles from NERO days. Ah, that was a time...thirty people playing elves, dwarves, templars and barbarians, and me playing a cowardly truffle merchant. Oh, I raked in the gold. :)

I will definitely take more orders! In fact, tonight at the dropoff Elizabeth mentioned the possibility of another order quadruple the size of this one as V-Day gets closer. Made me very happy I'd put extras in her box.