HEARTS, FLOWERS AND CHILLI CHOCOLATE As Valentine’s Day approaches, restaurants are booking up, shops are overflowing with hearts and flowers and couples everywhere are panicking about what to buy their loved ones. This year, get creative in the kitchen and add a touch of spice to Valentine’s Day. Chocolate has long been associated with love and romance, it’s also known to contain ‘feel good’ chemicals, and as chillies are a natural aphrodisiac (they contain capsaicin – a substance known to induce a temporary ‘high’) there’s no better gift than homemade chilli chocolate truffles. Tabasco® Pepper Sauce has teamed up with leading patissier and chocolatier Will Torrent who has created these melt-in-themouth truffles, they’re simple to make, they’re delicious and they’re guaranteed to heat up Valentine’s Day this year.
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WILL TORRENT’S TABASCO® RED PEPPER CHOCOLATE TRUFFLES
Add a surprise element to your chocolates by making a truffle with red pepper puree and Tab asco® Pepper Sauce.
125g whipping cream 125g red pepper puree < 1 tsp Tabasco® Sauc e < 25g butter < 25g honey < 350g good quality dark chocolate, 70% cocoa solids, chopped < Cocoa powder to finis h METHOD < Place the cream, pure e and sauce along with the butt er and honey into a saucepan and slow ly bring to the boil < Once boiled, carefully whisk in the chocolate < This will create a gana che – a rich, shiny emulsified mixture which you can then pour back in to the bowl < Clingfilm and place into the fridge < Leave overnight to set < When set, using a teas poon or a melon baller, spoon little truff les out and roll into coco a powder. Alternatively you can pipe these into little chocolate logs and then roll in cocoa pow der. <
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