For my birthday last December mom gave me a selfmade coupon to do 'something chocolatey' together. Today the two of us joined a workshop to make our own bonbons and truffles!

Mmm, chocolate!
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This is Jeroen from Chocolade & Zo; he is going to show us how to make a chocolate bowl with a balloon and the chocolate melting machine. We love him.

He also gave each team two recipes to make: truffles and bonbons. At the end we had to share the results...

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We started with the truffles recipe. After mixing melted chocolate, butter and cream, mom and I took turns working the piping bag. I can totally do this. They do not look like turds. Shut up.

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Mom dunking her balloon in milk chocolate (a second coat after the first of dark chocolate)

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Do you see mine? It's the prettiest bowl of the bunch:)

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Next were the bonbons. We made a base of marzipan mixed with crushed walnuts and honey with a coating of chocolate at the bottom. Here I'm covering the whole bonbon with chocolate. Final touch was a walnut on top (we also made some with the walnut underneath the final chocolate dip:)

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Done! Mom is very skillfully cleaning up the utensils.

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Our walnut-honey bonbons:)

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Our canache truffles (turds sneakily covered in dark chocolate sprinkles;)

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Don't we look professional?
(Heehee: mom is still covered in chocolate:)

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All the different truffles and bonbons the group made; we got to fill our chocolate bowls with one (or two;) of each \o/

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Tadaah! MINE \o/

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Happy mom + tons of chocolate = happy J. :-D

WE HAD SO MUCH FUN (AND CHOCOLATE!:)