Anatomy of a Chocolate Truffle

Step 13 Flavor Combination #3: Lemon & Black Pepper

Extra Ingredients:

• Freshly ground black pepper to taste
• 1/4 Tbsp fresh grated lemon zest (divided)

Add a generous dose of freshly ground black pepper when scalding the cream in Step 2.

Grate lemon zest and divide it into two equal parts.

Add the first half of the zest to the chocolate before steeping in Step 3.

Add the second helping of zest and black pepper to taste when you have begun to stir the ganache in Step 4.

After coating the ganache ball in Step 7, place on a sheet of baking paper instead of coating with a powder.

While chocolate is still sticky, sprinkle a bit of extra lemon zest on top to decorate (Step 9).

Comments

[Cardinal Fang]

Try this with lime instead of lemon, and with a tiny bit of chilli instead of the pepper.

[tozankyaku]

okay... how does the savory pepper do in the sweet mixture? what the flavor like?

[PKM]

I recently discovered lemon and black pepper flavour white chocolate- I'm not normally a great fan of white chocolate but it is possibly the best chocolate I've ever tasted, ever. Too much would obviously not be a good thing, but in moderation it's like salt on strawberries- a little bit of savoury brings out the flavour of a sweet food without making it cloying.