Chocolate

A week of chocolate sounds amazing doesn't it?

 If you're warned that it isn't all fun and games then taking it to heart is probably best.

Chocolate tempering is one of the hardest things to do if the conditions aren't right, if it's too hot your chocolate may never temper, you'd be lucky to get one bowl of chocolate to temper properly.

 Tempering Chocolate

Upon tasting chocolate, I found that I like white chocolate the best, it seemed to melt nicely in my mouth and leave a lovely flavour, however I found out that the worst tasting chocolate is the 100% kind, It takes an amazing amount of time to melt in your mouth leaves a horrible bitter after taste (which might I add stays in your mouth for as long as it took to melt in there, maybe longer) It's not  very pleasant.

Thursday September 06, we picked out different chocolates to make, and my partner and I, picked Marco Polo Chocolates, and Coffee Pralines.

I was delighted by the taste of the chocolate used to make the Marco Polo Chocolates, as they reminded me of hedge hogs that you can by at chocolate stores. 

I didn't think I would like the Coffee Pralines, since I'm not a fan of coffee, however, we successfully managed to temper chocolate and make a strong coffee smelling filling. Upon tasting our successful chocolate I was delighted to find it tasted amazing. 

 Coffee Pralines

Hopefully Friday will be a temper friendly day, so I may finish my chocolate cigarettes. They don't really look like cigarettes, more like striped tubes that you suck milk out of, but that's okay.