Chocolate truffle making class

As a pre-Valentine's Day celebration, last week David and I took a chocolate truffle making class. We were provided with a simple and customizable recipe and learned how to add our flavors and even infuse the cream we would put in the chocolate (think lavender!). 

Our mixing bowls were pre-filled and melted and all we had to do was stir. I'd really like to do this kind of cooking at home. So, if someone would please come by and set everything up and measure everything out for me, that would be great. We added the flavoring oursevles. I used ground cinnamon and vanilla. David used a TON of peppermint (he even sprinkled peppermint on top). They tasted like peppermint patties. 

Then we freezed and scooped our our truffles with a tiny cookie scoop. It made very nice round truffles, better than the melon baller. After another stint in the freezer, we were ready to decorate our truffles. We coated them in powder sugar, cocoa powder and melted chocolate. The melted chocolate allowed for sprinkles, peppermint bits and shimmery pearls. Then at the end of the night, we filled our little Chinese take-out boxes full of truffles. Does anyone want any truffles? I have 42...

If you want to make your own chocolate truffles Fine Cooking has an excellent recipe very similar to what we made. They have great technique photos and a variety of ideas for toppings and flavors. And if you're near Evanston, Illinois, we took our class at Now We're Cookin'. Very fun class and a great teacher. We even got some bubbly, which is always important when you're cooking.