Different Kinds of Chocolate for Truffles

Video Transcript

"As you can probably assume, our most important ingredient in the chocolate truffle is the chocolate. And contrary to what you might think there are actually so many different chocolate out there, and it really is important what chocolate you buy, and which chocolate you bake with. Chocolate that you just eat straight out of a candy wrapper, or off the shelf is a little bit different than what you want to bake with, especially if you want it to taste like a really high quality chocolate truffle, or anything else that you are baking. You have everything from the very very sweet chocolates, those are the milk chocolates, they are lighter in color, they have less cocoa, and more sugar and more milk, and depending on the quality, more fillers. I hate to say it but it's true. Then you have the semi-sweet chocolate. It's kind of in the middle, it's not quite as sugary sweet, it has more cocoa content, or higher cocoa content, a little bit less sugar, and less milk, fewer fillers. Then you have the dark chocolates, those are the, you've seen dark chocolate in the store, millions of times, I'm sure, and it has the highest cocoa content, the less sugar, the least amount of sugar and the least amount of milk and fillers. You could get them, you've probably seen all sorts of wrappers, you know sixty-three percent cocoa content, that's pretty high. Or a seventy-three percent, I have actually bought and baked with a hundred percent cocoa content. Those are extremely bitter because they're nothing but chocolate. I wouldn't recommend those for the truffle today, but they're out there. And just to let you know, it really depends on your taste. You know, if you're baking these for someone who doesn't like dark chocolate, they really like sweet, sweet stuff, get a milk chocolate, get a hunk of milk chocolate. Or if someone doesn't, you know isn't really into the sugary stuff, maybe something a little darker because it won't have that real, real sugary flavor to it. I also really recommend, buy the most expensive chocolate that you think you should. I really believe that chocolate is, you get what you pay for. So if you buy something that's real inexpensive, more than likely it's not going to taste that realy high quality. And the more expensive the chocolate, generally speaking, is going to be a higher quality, meaning the cocoa"