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Chocolate Truffles

July 20, 2013 By A Spoonful of Sugar - 6 Comments

Sarah and I love to create in the kitchen. We are largely self taught, but occasionally attend classes to learn new techniques. Last week we attended a Chocolate Truffle course to learn how to mould, pipe, cut and temper chocolate. The class was at Sweet Artist Academy in Joondalup and was run by French Pastry Chef, Patrick Vuaillat. As you can see from the plate of chocolates and truffles, we managed to plate up some wonderful chocolate confections. We were very popular when we arrived home.

The course was well run and organised in a purpose built professional kitchen. With only four participants, it was like having our own master class. We got to work with the finest French ingredients, which helped us to achieve wonderful results. Of course we had to sample the ingredients during the day – so we could tell the difference between the different grades of chocolate.

Ingredients

During the 7 1/2 hour course, we made

  • Palet d’or – vanilla chocolate ganache dipped in chocolate and topped with gold leaf.
  • rum truffles
  • two types of moulded chocolates with hazelnut praline

We used coloured milk chocolate to decorate our round moulds.

We piped coloured chocolate into our rectangular moulds

Then coated both moulds with a thin layer of tempered chocolate before filling them with a delicious hazelnut praline.

We finished them off with a bottom layer of  tempered chocolate.

We piped rum truffles onto a baking sheet. When they had set, we rolled them in cocoa powder before dipping them in melted chocolate. A messy but fun task.

We learnt so many techniques and tips for working with chocolate.

Packing up our chocolates to take home at the end of the class.
We enjoy candy making and plan to raise the bar on our gifts from the kitchen this Christmas. Best of all we got to hang out together doing something we love.
For more details on courses run by Sweet Artist Academy, check out their website and facebook page.
Disclaimer: This is not a sponsored post. We really enjoyed our Chocolate Truffle course and wanted to share details with you.

Filed Under: Confectionery, Uncategorized Tagged With: candy, Chocolate

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Comments

  1. shez says

    July 20, 2013 at 6:07 pm

    what a lot of fun and those truffles look so yummy.xx

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  2. suzitee says

    July 20, 2013 at 7:10 pm

    I have been so tempted by these courses…but so far haven’t made it to one 🙁 Looks like you had lots of fun!

    Reply
  3. Amy @ chick chick sewing says

    July 20, 2013 at 10:46 pm

    Yum! Those chocolates look so tempting! What a wonderful way to spend quality mother-daughter time together, at French pastry chef’s kitchen… Thanks so much for sharing!

    Reply
  4. Studio ZIva says

    July 21, 2013 at 2:31 am

    Ooo they look so yummie!

    Reply
  5. Melody says

    July 22, 2013 at 3:38 am

    Oh yum.

    Reply
  6. Carmen says

    July 23, 2013 at 4:23 am

    Que delícia de curso!!

    Reply

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