I can’t look at an Easter egg without thinking about what my mother told me they stand for. The emptiness of the hollow egg stands for the empty tomb: Jesus is risen!
Easter eggs are pretty fancy now. Nothing beats a good old Cadbury milk chocolate egg, and an egg with filling kind of loses meaning for me… but the novelty ones can be fun.
And they do look nice. These truffle eggs are all coated and dusted in different combinations of white, milk and dark chocolate, all with different flavoured alcoholic centres.
I’m not widely-tasted in the realms of spirits, but an introduction amaretto via chocolate sounds like a gentle starting point!
The amaretto truffle egg is coated in milk chocolate with a dusting of dark chocolate sprinkles. It’s quite heavy too lift: no empty tomb inside! The underside has been flattened so as to fit the packaging. Cheating! It smells of bitterness and spirits.
Scrape off a sprinkle. Letting it melt on my tongue. Dark, but not very dark. Lick and suck on the milk chocolate outside. Not very chocolaty… but I can taste the liquor already!
Bite the narrow end of the egg. I don’t get much truffle, mostly chocolate, but the amaretto is strong. The chocolate loses ground before it, the balance isn’t quite there.
But it’s nice, the aftertaste is sweet.
Going for more truffle now. Very soft, creamy, sweet in the mouth and then the little warm kick. I wouldn’t say that I can taste any almond though… it’s more a general alcoholic sense then anything specific. Probably the chocolate conquering the details.
Not traditional, but enjoyable. Take a bigger bite, sitting back, enjoying it and whoa!
All of a sudden the amaretto becomes way too strong. It becomes a burn in my mouth, almost medicinal. The chocolate flavour is washed away in its wake. It all just tastes like straight, cutting alcohol.
That’s not very pleasant. There are some serious balance issues with this truffle. You would think they’d save money by adding less spirits but someone clearly got a little frisky with the bottle. It kind of destroys the whole experience, you can’t just let it hang in your mouth anymore, it needs to be swallowed.
So tiny bites from now on. No, it’s not bad enough to stop me eating the other five flavours. I mean, I can’t let food go to waste! But it could have been so much nicer, and chocolate is supposed to be very nice indeed.
Rating:
Specific: Amaretto truffle egg by Specially Selected
Amaretto Truffle Egg
I can’t look at an Easter egg without thinking about what my mother told me they stand for. The emptiness of the hollow egg stands for the empty tomb: Jesus is risen!
Easter eggs are pretty fancy now. Nothing beats a good old Cadbury milk chocolate egg, and an egg with filling kind of loses meaning for me… but the novelty ones can be fun.
And they do look nice. These truffle eggs are all coated and dusted in different combinations of white, milk and dark chocolate, all with different flavoured alcoholic centres.
I’m not widely-tasted in the realms of spirits, but an introduction amaretto via chocolate sounds like a gentle starting point!
The amaretto truffle egg is coated in milk chocolate with a dusting of dark chocolate sprinkles. It’s quite heavy too lift: no empty tomb inside! The underside has been flattened so as to fit the packaging. Cheating! It smells of bitterness and spirits.
Scrape off a sprinkle. Letting it melt on my tongue. Dark, but not very dark. Lick and suck on the milk chocolate outside. Not very chocolaty… but I can taste the liquor already!
Bite the narrow end of the egg. I don’t get much truffle, mostly chocolate, but the amaretto is strong. The chocolate loses ground before it, the balance isn’t quite there.
But it’s nice, the aftertaste is sweet.
Going for more truffle now. Very soft, creamy, sweet in the mouth and then the little warm kick. I wouldn’t say that I can taste any almond though… it’s more a general alcoholic sense then anything specific. Probably the chocolate conquering the details.
Not traditional, but enjoyable. Take a bigger bite, sitting back, enjoying it and whoa!
All of a sudden the amaretto becomes way too strong. It becomes a burn in my mouth, almost medicinal. The chocolate flavour is washed away in its wake. It all just tastes like straight, cutting alcohol.
That’s not very pleasant. There are some serious balance issues with this truffle. You would think they’d save money by adding less spirits but someone clearly got a little frisky with the bottle. It kind of destroys the whole experience, you can’t just let it hang in your mouth anymore, it needs to be swallowed.
So tiny bites from now on. No, it’s not bad enough to stop me eating the other five flavours. I mean, I can’t let food go to waste! But it could have been so much nicer, and chocolate is supposed to be very nice indeed.
Rating:
Specific: Amaretto truffle egg by Specially Selected