Chocolate Truffle Made using chocolate ganache coated with cocoa powder, shaped like a cone or curved. Chocolate Truffle is a kind of chocolate confectionery. In addition to using chocolate ganache, as the base material, can also use the cream, liquid chocolate, caramel, nuts, almonds, berries. It can also use sweet fruits such as nougat, fudge or toffee, mint, chocolate chips, marshmallows.
In December 1985, a man named M. Dufour made chocolate truffle in Chambery France. Having created the Chocolate Truffle, to be known by the public, in 1902 to build a chocolate shop called Prestat Chocolate Shop by Antoine Dufour. To develop a chocolate product, create three types of Chocolate Truffle, namely: America, Europe and Switzerland.
Several restaurants serving Chocolate Truffle in Australia took the basic ingredients rather than their countries of origin in France, but chose the farm itself. Because about 70 percent of black truffle tuber melanosporum and grows in the country of kangaroos. Mushrooms are taken in the morning, selected and packed in plastic foil which was then placed in plastic boxes and sold to restaurants or retailers
The price offered for a kilo of truffles has dropped in recent years, from $ 3000/kg to $ 1400/kg and $ 1500/kg
Types of Chocolate Truffle is American, Europe and Switzerland, has its own characteristics. Namely:
1. America Truffle
Has a half-egg-shaped characteristics, brown, dark chocolate mixed with milk, fat and coconut oil as a hardener. Invented by Joseph Schmidt and Joseph Schmidt.
2. European Truffle
Are made with syrup and chocolate-based powder, milk powder and fat
3. Swiss Truffle
Is made by combining liquid chocolate into the cream mixture and butter to boil milk is poured into molds before sprinkling of cocoa powder. This truffle species differs from the two previous types, has a short time to be saved, so it must be consumed immediately.