Aren’t we lucky? Today is National Truffle Day. An entire day dedicated to the delights of the Candy Truffle. Truffles have been rumored to have been around in the Chocolatiere World since the Christmas holidays of 1895. However; it was an accident in the kitchen of French Chef Auguste Escoffier sometime in the 1920’s that has given us the Truffles we know and love today. As the story goes, one of his apprentices was attempting to make a pastry cream. He accidentally poured the hot cream into a bowl containing chunks of chocolate rather than the intended bowl of sugared egg mixture. As the chocolate and cream mixture cooled, he found that he could work the chocolate paste with his hands to form a bumpy ball. After rolling his new creation in a cocoa powder, the apprentice was struck by the resemblance to the luxurious truffles of the French region of Périgord and the Piedmont area of Italy. Hence the name.
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