I spent today in Lyon with some fellow counselors. We travelled around, saw the zoo park, and shopped. We also came across a wonderful little chocolaterie... naturally I had to go in and look at the local delicacies.
The little green guys are called something that translates roughly to 'cushions' and they are indeed the speciality either of Lyon or of that specific chocolaterie. Next to it was a kind of marzipan peach filled with liquor. That was a treat just for me, heh.
The cushions contained a chocolate orange ganache filling that was then wrapped in marzipan. The marzipan helped cut the ganache so it wasn't terribly rich. Basically, it lived up to its name as a light cushion of chocolate. As I have mentioned in my previous posts, I'm not a fan of orange infused chcocolate. They're great as seperate, distinct flavors, but in one ganache it's just too much.
It's a bit lower on my list than, say, maple bacon ice cream, but I definitely would like to try my hand at candies and confections like this. I didn't purchase any, but the chocolatierie also had some fruit confit; whole fruits that had been cooked in a sugar syrup. The appearance is beautiful even though I imagine the taste to be just this side of diabetes-inducing. I will have to try those as well.
Something tells me these treats will be abundant as I get closer to Christmas... they will make excellent gifts wrapped in celophane and all decorated up fancy-like :P
yummy! love the posts! keep em coming! are you doing the final august session too? if so, where will you be? or are you coming back after this one?
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