Gone Chocco

 

We’ve done the fudge and now we have to do the truffles available at the House of Anvers.  As with Paton’s Macadamia nuts, these truffles are available anywhere there’s an airport giftshop, Aussie flags or packets of tiny koalas with grippy hands made in China.

As such, the boxes aren’t classy:

Luckily, the truffles are sold separately at their factory shop and are much cheaper, even if you get them handed back to you in a paper bag.

 

 

 

 

 

 

When we got them ‘home’ (this time at a holiday apartment in Port Sorell), they kind of reminded me of the photos I’d taken an hour earlier at the beach……..

     

 

 

 

 

 

….. but NOTHING puts me off a chocolate review, dear reader!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The flavours I selected (one each for Love Chunks, Sapphire and myself to try) were Mocha, Ganache, Kirsch and Strawberry.

First up was the plain one, the ganache. It was a pale brown colour inside but, with my eyes closed, it tasted entirely of cream.  Owner and creator of Anvers Chocolates, Igor Van Gerwen, loves the richness of the Tasmanian cream and having bought them singly I didn’t have a list of ingredients or any info on how they stay fresh in boxes but it is clearly the signature flavour here, not chocolate.  LC and Sapphire are big cream fans, so it’s a winner with them.

The darkest ‘log’ was second, the Mocha.  For a coffee/chocolate combination, this was entirely white inside.  Again, a hint of milk chocolate, a huge blast of fresh cream and then, eventually, a smidge of coffee flavour.  This is subtle rather than strong version of mocha but is done superbly.  The best of the lot.

The Kirsch was good with the cherry flavour shining through and adding to the enjoyment of the chocolate, making cream a secondary character instead of the main one.

Not so the strawberry truffle.  None of us could detect any hint of strawberry flavour and thought that it might have been a ganache placed on the wrong tray.

If ‘truffle’ to you means logs of cream, then these are for you.  If you like the chocolate to triumph first, then you might need to look elsewhere for that extra ‘oomph’ of cacao.