Photo credit: Rick Levine
Seth Ellis Chocolatier makes these ginger truffles that like like Jackson Pollock gems. The coloured spatter is beautiful, but doesn’t seem to be anything new. I mean, lots of chocolatiers decorate their chocolates with colours. I’m pretty sure that the standard yellow colour is made of Yellow Dye No. 5 suspended in cocoa butter. Decidedly not organic.
Now, remember that Seth Ellis chocolates are certified organic. How’d they manage to do that and get a yellow spatter? They used turmeric. I think my eyebrows almost left my forehead when I found out. Yet another example of creative problem solving.
Enough about the spatter. The inside of these truffles is beautifully smooth, almost velvety ganache. There are two kinds of ginger inside, a Hawaiian ginger that provides a warm base, and a crystallized Australian ginger that dances on top of it. I could eat a whole box of these.
Seth Ellis chocolates are available at select locations in the Denver/Boulder area, and that page will soon be updated to reflect the five NYC Whole Foods that now carries them. You can also buy them online through It’s Only Natural Gifts or through Foodzie.
These sound amazing. We were just in Chicago where we visited Vosges Haut Chocolat. So good. Very fancy. We tasted two truffles… one w/ a heat element (chiles) and one w/ curry. Both very unique and worth savoring!
When I was in New York a few years ago, I bought a giant box of Vosges truffles from Neiman Marcus. I still have the tasting notes somewhere – I’ll have to dig them up. I do remember not liking the curry one, but I’m not a fan of curry and chocolate. The chile one sounds lovely…Nom!