Chocolate Balls!

All the days of my externship are starting to run together. I find my self doing a lot of the same things day to day, but that's great. I'm quickly getting better at the ever day processes that bring the line together later in the day. I have a few recipes memorized at this point and learning new ones every day that I work. Today I worked with Jeff who makes most of our deserts. We made mini pecan pies that are called Grain House Pies. I also got to work with Janine a lot today, we made Apple Springrolls which are like apple cheesecake in a springroll that later gets deep fried to order on the line. We also made our own invention using the scraps left over from the trimming of a chocolate cake... This is where the title of today's post comes in. We took the scraps, crumbled them up till we had chocolate cake crumbles in a large bowl, got a few shots of Brandy and soaked dampened the cake crumbles. We then packed them into small 1/2 oz balls and froze them. Afterward we took them out, tempered some chocolate and coated them with a nice layer of it. The end result was a mix of a truffle and a munchkin, however much much more rich. (Considering there was liquor and dark chocolate involved) I have to say, it was a lot of fun making our own concoction and seeing how it'd work. It's great to know that I'm working in a profession where you're constantly learning and getting paid to do it! I'm 120 hours into my externship now with 60 hours remaining. Very exciting to know that soon I'll be off and on my way to making an actual career out of what I've spent much time learning in classrooms.