Perigord Truffles have a distinctive smell - somewhere in the skunk, cannabis, mushroom, funky, and musky aroma range for me. The formal entry says Perigord truffles "bear a pungent, musky aroma that is likened to a combination of garlic, forest floor, nuts, and cocoa. The truffle's flesh contains a robust, subtly sweet, savoury, and earthy flavour with notes of pepper, mushrooms, mint, and hazelnut."
Now we know why hazelnut is in the mix. That's how I got to thinking about chocolate truffles - they came up frequently yesterday on searches for Perigord Truffles.
There is a chocolate truffle that incorporates a French Perigord truffle. La Madeline au Truffle, created by Danish chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt is acknowledged as the world’s most expensive chocolate truffle at $250 per piece. It is $2700 a pound. What a gorgeous website - called chocopologie.com.
"Fritz immigrated to the US in 1996, produces this lavish chocolate in Norwalk, Connecticut under the brand name Knipschildt Chocolatier. This chocolate is made of 70% Valrhona dark chocolate, heavy cream, sugar, truffle oil and vanilla as the base for this rich mouthful. A rare French Perigord truffle is then surrounded by this rich ganache, and then rolled in dark chocolate and fine cocoa powder. The result is absolutely divine and sinful."
The chef makes this recommendation on how to eat it:
"I would suggest you serve it on a silver platter, cut it with the best knife you have in the house and eat it with a wonderful bottle of red wine.
"The flavors are just so amazing, the ingredients so special that it deserves to have a ceremony made of it."
This doesn't sound divine to me - how do you possibly eat a truffle within chocolate. You will need an extremely sharp knife and I expect you will have to cut it into slivers. And then won't everything separate. I don't relish putting more than a sliver of funky, mushroom, garlic, forest floor in my mouth.
But you can order it online from chocopologie if you are more adventurous.
Doesn't this bark look flaky and crispy? The top looks like caramel bark and the bottom chocolate layers.
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