Chocolate Covered Butter Cream

Melt in your mouth couveture chocolate, filled with butter cream icing. YES! This is absolutely as delicious as it sounds.

These are approximately 1" x 1/2". I am packaging 12 within truffle boxes decorated with yellow ribbon. These are the perfect sweet treats to present to friends, co-workers, or family. 12 pieces for $6.50.
If you are in the Greater Toronto Area, feel free order by emailing me.

Decadent Cake Truffles

Wow! I think I made over a 100! Chocolate cake mixed with icing, and topped with chocolate.

This past weekend, all I could think about was Cake Balls. I was inspired by the Cake-o-logy Blog. I found an easy recipe online, and came up with these:

They were a hit at work. They were fun to make, but the process is pretty tedious. I must have individually rolled them for about 2 hours and I added valentine candy on top. They were melt in your mouth delicious. I am going to retitle them Cake Truffles.

Ingredients

1 (18.25 ounce) package chocolate cake mix
1 (16 ounce) container prepared vanilla frosting
1 (3 ounce) bar chocolate flavored confectioners coating

Directions

1.Prepare the cake mix according to package directions using any of the recommended pan sizes. When cake is done, crumble after cooled into a large bowl, and stir in the frosting until well blended.

2.Place in fridge to cool for about two hours.

3.Melt chocolate coating in a glass bowl in the microwave, or in a metal bowl over a pan of simmering water, stirring occasionally until smooth.

4.Use a melon baller or small scoop to form balls of the chocolate cake mixture. Dip the balls in chocolate using a toothpick or fork to hold them. Place on waxed paper to set. Refrigerate.

Easy Truffles!

I have finally found an easy truffle recipe for my first batch of truffles. It is a 2 ingredient truffle recipe using cream cheese and chocolate chips. Since I have already learned how to temper chocolate, I will continue to work with my couveture chocolate. On that note, I have now turned this two ingredient recipe into a 3-4 ingredient combination. This recipe should made 12 truffles.

I used Merckens melts in dark cocoa, and red for the outer coating, and chocolate couveture for the inside. I used colour to give these delicious treats a vibrant visual contrast. I spooned 3 oz of cream cheese into a bowl and stirred it until it was a smooth consistency.

I melted 3 oz of dark couveture chocolate, and then poured it into the cream cheese. I stirred the two together, and placed th mixture (covered) in the refrigerator for 1/2 an hour (15 minutes btw is fine) to cool and stiffen.

I removed my cream cheese / chocolate mixture from the refrigerator. I decided to use the Merckens Red for part of this batch. I formed my truffles into large marble size balls. I lined baking sheet with wax parchment paper.

I melted 2 oz of red candy melts using a microwave oven. I spooned out my chocolate mixture with a melon baller. I inserted a toothpick into the ball and then dipped it into the melts. I removed the ball from the toothpick and placed it on the wax paper. I made 6 red truffles. I melted about 4 of the Merckens cocoa melts and drizzled it onto my red truffles.

I used the same process, but now dipping the balled mixture into the Merckens Cocoa. As I finished each of those truffles, I sprinkled shredded coconut on them.

And VOILA!

Registered!

Ok.... So I neglected to mention that a week and a half ago, I registered my name "Sweet Tooth Fashionista". I just figured that it was a really cool and catchy name.

I guess I tend to venture on the positive side. I thought that if my blog caught on, then maybe another Sweet Tooth Fashionista would pop up.

This could also be a form of postive reinforcement for me. You know... If I am Legally what I envision myself to be --- Then I can be who I want to be.

So, I am just about ready to send out my chocolate samples to my FaceBook Group winners. I will drop them in the mail on Thursday this week. I can definitely say that I have the basic concept of preparing chocolates from molds. I was going to step up to bonbons, but when I read a recipe, I become a bit overwhlemed. I have decided to create chocolate truffles. I have finally obtained a fairly easy recipe, that has a shelf life of a month. A long shelf life is important to me right now, in case someone wanted me to ship an order to them.