Ouzo

Well, I have been experimenting with different flavors. Cat Cora, the only female Iron Chef on Food Network was coming to a book signing close to where I live. After researching her likes and dislikes, my son reminded me that she is Greek and that her team salutes the end of each competition with Ouzo, (a Greek wine that has sort of the taste of black licorice)! Wow , I thought. How do I make a truffle with an Ouzo flavor????

I went back to my little test kitchen with a good bottle of Ouzo and went to town. I made dark chocolate ganache, and white chocolate ganache and used Gittard's white chocolate for the shell. Some had a dark chocolate ganache with a layer of dark chocolate shell inside the white shell, some just had dark chocolate ganace inside the white shell, then there was white chocolate ganache inside the white shell and white ganache with a layer of dark chcolate shell inside the white shell. I painted each different mixture with a special blue mark (Greek's colors are Blue and White!)

The next step was to bring my "experiments" to my friends who are always anxious to taste my new flavors and give their opinions. A lot of people liked the dark chocolate ganache inside the white shell, but when people who REALLY liked Ouzo tasted all four of them, the best flavor was the white chocolate ganache inside a white shell. I must say that while I am not a big fan of Ouzo, this truffle was really good!

I went to the bookstore, bought her wonderful new cookbook, and stood in line with a box of my chocolate truffles, with the white Ouzo truffle in the center. As timid as I was to be facing the only female Iron Chef of Food Network, I was delighted when her eyes lit up at hearing that someone had made her an Ouzo truffle!

She has my card and hopefullly she will try the chocolates and rave to the whole Food Network about how great my chocolates are. And hopefully she will not be able to live without my Ouzo truffles!!!!!