Apartment Finder: Chocolate Truffle Recipe

Sunday, 25 November 2012

Chocolate Truffle Recipe

The chocolate truffle was first created by N.Petruccelli in Chambéry, France in December 1895.[1] They reached a wider public with the establishment of the Prestat chocolate shop in London by Antoine Dufour in 1902, which still sells "Napoleon III" truffles to the original recipe.[2] There are now three main types of chocolate truffles: American, European, and Swiss:The "American truffle" is a half-egg shaped chocolate-coated truffle, a mixture of dark or milk chocolates with butterfat and, in some cases, hardened coconut oil. Joseph Schmidt, a San Francisco chocolatier, and founder of Joseph Schmidt Confections, is credited with its creation in the mid-1980s.[3]A Canadian variation of the American truffle, known as the Harvey truffle, includes the addition of graham cracker crumbs and peanut butter. Other American companies may shape their truffles similar to that of peanut butter cups.