Truffles!

Since Valentines Day is coming up we made truffles! This is split in a two day lab where in the first day we made the chocolate and the second day we rolled it to make truffles.

Here we have the cream and margarine in a sauce pan...not very exciting, waiting for it to boil.

The chocolate! Everyone in my group literally could not keep their hands off this sugary, not sweet but still deliciously awesome goodness!

Our flavouring!

It was official, my group has the most indecisive people ever, it was like "anything you want guys", "you can choose", "I like everything", "I just want to eat chocolate" when we were decided what flavours.

We decided to use vanilla after 10 minutes of debating to use vanilla or peppermint. 

This is when we took the saucepan off the heat because it was boiling and then added the chocolate to it.

Into the cake pan it goes! Our unit only had the giant cake pan so I stole another units (but there wasn't anybody there anyways). This went into the refrigerator.

This is after it was done refrigerating...I almost couldn't tell which photo this was...was it a before the fridge or after?

Rolling it out in cocoa powder. Practically everybody's chocolate when it came out of the fridge was not hard/frozen enough so it was REALLY SOFT and basically it almost reminded me of mochi when it was covered in cocoa powder. But my group's turned out pretty well! 

Our first two! We personally brought peanuts and sprinkles cuz just cocoa powder was boring...not really we just really like ones with peanuts on them.

Truffles outside: Cocoa powder, Peanuts, Sprinkles, Icing Sugar

The icing sugar one at the front (the one with a lot) reminded me of a Mexican wedding cookie and the one at the back (which has hardly any icing sugar) reminded me of a chocolate timbit you can get in Tim Hortons.

All the ones we made! After the first plate we kind of stopped caring where we placed them because we were running out of time but at least we made one good looking, presentable plate!

I had the desire to gobble up every single one of these when I was making them....

Chocolaty goodness! Everyone in our class kept asking us how we made ours not gooey/soft but it's a secret ;) A unit also asked if they could take pictures but this time we said no (usually we let them) but one of them still took a picture before we could stop them!