Chocolate Cups

hello everyone!

This recipe is really easy and fun to follow. All you have to do is, make chocolate shells with the help of molds. Making these shells can be tricky, if they are too thin, they will break or worst, your filling will seep out. The trick is to make them thick, with the help of 2-3 coatings. You can use a brush or "fill them and empty them" technique.

After they are finished, fill them with anything you like, mousse or fruit smoothie or even ice cream. They make a great "after meal dessert":)

Chocolate cup filled with Mango mousse

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Marzipan Truffle

So, I was thinking, why not start, with something, I tried recently and was satisfied with the results. So, here is the recipe for marzipan truffle. 

Marzipan is actually a mixture of almond paste and sugar. You can substitute almond with cashews or even pistachios. Pistachios actually gives it a very nice green color.  You can blanch your almonds or you can use them with there skin intact. I prefer them blanched because it gives it a light creamy shade which is a good contrast to chocolate. 

There are ready made marzipan available in market but it's always good to make your own because then, you can control the quality of the ingredients. So, what you have to do is, blend your almonds and make a fine powder. Take a sauce pan, mix sugar and water in it, put it on heat and let it come to boil. Now lower your heat, add almond powder to it and let it simmer for about 15-20 min. You will have to stir it, so that mixture doesn't burn. When the mixture attains a thick consistency, take it off heat and let it cool for 1 hr or so. Your Marzipan is ready. You can use it right away or store it in fridge to be used later. Now for making marzipan truffle, all you have to do it roll your marzipan into balls and dip them into tempered chocolate. You can add almond essence to tempered chocolate, if you want a strong flavor of almond.

Your Marzipan truffles are ready. You can store them in fridge, in an air tight container and consume them within a month. 

Ingredients-
almonds - 1 cup
sugar - half cup
almond essence - 1 tbsp ( optional )
bitter sweet chocolate - 200 gms

yield-
8-10 truffle

first post

hellooo everyone!!

This is my first blog as " Bliss Chocolates" . I have always loved chocolates. Who doesn't actually? I started blogging and also found my interest in chocolate making and then I thought why not write a blog about chocolate making:) This way I can share my recipes with all of you. We can learn the art of chocolate making together. Chocolate making is a new venture for me and every day is a new experience . Sometimes I fail and sometimes I make something truly delicious:)

 If you have interest in chocolate making, the options are unlimited . You can make flavored chocolates , nut chocolates , you can take fresh fruits and cover them in chocolates and have them as dessert, post meal. You can make liquor chocolates or center soft chocolates with the filling of your choice. It's totally up to you, how to use your creativity. Visualize your master piece, decide on your process,  gather your ingredients and that's it. 

Chocolates actually makes a very good gift option and they are even better if they are home made. You can surprise your friends, relatives with your work of art :) who doesn't like it, if it's chocolate, garnished with some love:)

will be talking about "more chocolates" from my next blog.

till then, have  a wonderful day:)