Vanilla ButtercreamI have a friend here who is the chocolate master. She knows everything about chocolate and cake decorating and all of that fun stuff. So I went to her house one day (brought my own centers that she gave me the recipe for) and she showed me how to dip the centers and make truffles. She has a fancy chocolate tempering machine that tempers the chocolate. It was so much fun. I'm hooked to this hobby. I went home and made tonz of centers...250 of them. Then she let me borrow her machine for an all day dipping extravaganza. The girls helped here or there, Dave helped by having an all day date with Nate, and also making me lunch. The only time I sat all day was for 5 minutes to shovel down some lunch and then rushed back to the dipping.
Here are my helpers with the centers ready to dip. Maple fudge, caramel, chocolate chip cookie dough, vanilla buttercream, orange buttercream, chocolate buttercream and chocolate mint buttercream.
My friend showed me a discount website to order gourmet chocolate. I bought a 10 pound block of chocolate and I've never seen anything like it! I wish I got a picture of it before stabbing into it.
Maple Fudge
Chocolate Buttercream
At the end of the dipping day, I handed the girls a bag of Oreos and let them dip away. They had so much fun.
This picture has nothing to do with chocolate - except that it is sooooooooo sweet! This was a couple weeks ago during our first snow storm. Another big storm is coming in tonight.
16 comments:
MELISSA!
Your truffles look PICTURE PERFECT ... even the fine details on top of each!! All I can say is WOW! Your kitchen looks like a candy factory. John II says, I imagine the girls are going to soon be on a sugar high ... wish I were there.
Yummy! Can we place an order??!! Looks like you were very busy and they look PERFECT! Merry Christmas!
Melissa.. those look so yummy! I don't know how you did an all day baking session....that's crazy....but they turned out great (i wish we lived near by so we could get a sample!). Are you guys coming out here for christmas at all? if you are we'll have to get together.
Also, that last picture of nate is super cute...blow that one up huge and frame it.
OH MY CHOCOLATE!!!!!! Wowa, you are amazing. And, for someone that doesn't love chocolate...that is an effort!!
A woman after my own heart! I love to dip chocolates. I think someday I gotta get me one of those machines though because sometimes I over-heat my chocolate. The comment before mine says you don't like chocolate?
Cool hobby Meliss. They look divine. Save me some for Christmas?
Actually, I corrupted Melissa. Now she likes chocolate...and ice cream.
I am sooo impressed!!!! That is awesome! Wow! A lot of work! And I'm glad Dave corrupted you....haha
Those look so yummy! You are so talented!
Wow!!! 250 Centers? That takes a lot of dipping. What a lot of work. Too bad we aren't close enough to help eat. Thanks.
you are the WO-MAN! :) I'm so gonna bust these out when the friends come over and just let them be amazed at your creations ;) Can't wait to try them!!! and i can't belive you made the centers all good, i'm interested to know how you did that and on your firs try at that!! nate's pix is adorable of course
LOVING the picture of Nate!!
Bryan wants to know when the package will be arriving...
Funny, truffles are my new thing to try this year. Haven't gotten to them yet, and now it will not be nearly as impressive as yours. But better than nothing, right? Hope you had a little bit of fun!
Way to go Melissa! I remember growing up and helping my mom do this...FUN memories! What kind of chocolate did you buy? I love working with Calabeau..sp???
Those look DELICIOUS!!!! I too would like to place an order for Christmas!!!
That looks SO SO GOOD!
So far, the maple fudge is my favorite. Deee-lish-us. Thanks guys.
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