You know, dear reader, if you ever, per chance, bring home a bunch of yummy little fallen soufflés you made in class and you mention to delighted eaters that you wish they could have seen them fresh out of the oven, chances are they will ask you to make it fresh.

Thus becoming my first pastry school project reproduced at home, successfully too! After husband (the main instigator) got the ramekins and I bought a huge chunk of Bittersweet chocolate (way more than I needed), I was good to go.

I had a lot of fun making these, after two consecutive days of souffle making, there wasn’t that much that could go wrong, and in fact even my oven followed through!

While I don’t think I should post the recipe from my text book, I will tell you that the recipe I used was just a little different from this one. Oh and instead of 1/2 cup of coffee I used an ounce of Bourbon (I’ve been adding Bourbon to desserts a lately).

Pastry School is going by too fast! Can’t wait for tonight we will taste our Panna Cottas and Gelées!

ps: I know the writing in this post is a little janky, I am having my first (and last) sugar hangover today… I’m a little out of sorts…

Both Children and Grown Ups get a lot of Chocolate every Easter in Brazil, this is above was is one of the larger sizes, they can be smaller and also crazy bigger, imagine 70 kilos bigger, but those are usually just for show! I remember one so big I actually could step inside of it, I was a kid still though…

The folklore in the 80s and early 90s in the town I grew up in, was that if you made a wish and wore the Ribbon that came with the egg, until it fell off the wish came true. So the Monday after Easter all the kids in School had them. My wish was always “to not be held back a year in school” I guess as a kid I didn’t not realize the correlation between getting good grades and passing… (As usual I went off into a tangent.)

You probably was to see more Chocolate Egg.

And? They have more candy inside.

This is a milk Chocolate Egg, the make all varieties! Even giant Kinder Eggs with bigger toys inside!  My friends went to Newark and had bought dozens Brazilian and Portuguese goodies!

More on Chocolate Eggs late on, I’m having a Cadbury Creme Egg tasting!

Stuck in a driver’s license renewal course in Brazil? Watching the Mr Wheeler/Mr Walker cartoon the same day as real car accident footage? A Caipirinha truffle and an Espresso can be your friend!

Cacau Show is a chain of “high quality chocolate” shops that is all over Brazil. I had never really paid much attention to them, because they sold franchise opportunities on TV all the time plus they only really spread throughout after I left the country. However, when one finds himself in the above situation they will walk into anywhere to clear their a bit, that’s when I got to try these unusual truffles.

They had Quentão (a warm spiced cachaça drink served during the Festa Juninas), Caipirinha (everyone knows that one!), Curau (a Maize custard) oh and Paçoca (candy made of ground peanuts and sugar) my fave candy!

OK: bad day + caipirinha truffle = not so bad after all! Even though it was white chocolate, the Caipirinha Truffle was very good, the ganache inside was fluffy and tasted like limes and cheap cachaça! Which is usually what caipirinhas taste like, haha!  The Paçoca was also very good and true to the original candy. The Curau and Quentão didn’t really deliver. As my control group I had their dark chocolate truffle and it was also decadently good!

If you ever find yourself near a Cacau Show, definitely try their truffles. I ended going back every day of the 3 day course!

PS: If you can read Portuguese, check out their website.