To make chocolate truffles, you start by making ganache. What is ganache? When you eat a truffle that has a hard chocolate shell around a soft chocolate inside—that soft inside is ganache. Ganache is an emulsion of chocolate and cream. You make it by mixing solid chocolate into just-boiling cream. The emulsion is key: if […]
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In Spain, drinking chocolate is as common as drinking coffee. Just like we have coffeeshops, Spain has chocolaterías serving drinking chocolate and churros to dunk in it. Some of them are open 24 hours a day, just in case of 4 AM chocolate emergencies. When you find good Spanish drinking chocolate it’s a far cry […]
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A friend and I went to the grocery one evening in search of ice cream and hot fudge. The ice cream part was easy; we picked a good one right away. The chocolate sauce was another story. We spent a lot of time reading all of the ingredient lists looking for the one with the […]
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