Truffle Mania!

What's a better way to enjoy life than popping one of those rich, decadent, luscious and oh so tempting truffle in your mouth??!

"Um...truffles... Yum!"

Most of us have share the same passion as to eating these fancy, expensive looking chocolates and heck they are EXPENSIVE! But no matter what they are so good and melts in your mouth like no other! To add, makes you feel at your best!

So right around Valentine's Day I went crazy learning how to make truffles myself and I tell you it's not easy to have one perfectly enrobed truffle in a nice shiny coat of chocolate! The tempering of the chocolate for a first timer was just crazy and tedious! However I must say the outcome/ success was very rewarding! =) For a chocolate soul like me, I didn't mind enrobing myself in chocolate as well but what tops the whole experience is being able to share that experience with special people in your life. I have concluded that the next chocolate holiday in my life will be a moment I will not miss to have my family and friends involved in the production of this seemingly fancy confections! =)

After a whole week of trying to perfect the art of truffle making, tempering chocolate, enrobing and (the fun part) eating rejects, I just can't get over the experience and wanted more! It's like a life changing event in my life towards the way I appreciate chocolates/confections. The "oh wow chocolate..yum yum.. gobble everything, done!" attitude was history for me. I now eat my chocolates like it's my first and last. This is basically the same lesson I learned from learning how to make bread and any other kind of food I have prepared in the past: Appreciate and savor the flavors, don't just gobble and wobble after!

I dare you to do the same and I can only promise you one thing, it's all worth all the trouble! Chocolate has never lost it's power to melt somebody's heart!