Peanut Butter Truffles [sms]

This week's Sweet Melissa Sundays pick, Peanut Butter Truffles, was chosen by Mara of Love Your Mother Earth.

I had actually made these late Friday night, I just never got around to photographing it and getting to it until today because it's been a super busy weekend. I'm really sorry that I don't have more pictures, but I'll make it up by giving you pictures of what happened this weekend!

First, Friday night was UC Berkeley Circle K Banquet. As many of the constant readers of my blog know, it's a community service organization that I am a part of on campus. Therefore - banquet season! It was about 5 hours of eating, writing notes to people and other amazing things that I can't particularly think of.

Family picture!

Saturday was spent in Davis for something called Spring Training Conference. Therefore, lots of helping out, setting up, and just basically helping the person in charge running the event as smoothly as possible.

Old District Board

Sunday was spent going to various stores and buying stuff for the last family social on Tuesday and also Wong Fu Productions showcase. For those who don't know what Wong Fu is, it's 3 guys who started a video making production company that shoots a lot of short videos to put on youtube. They've recently worked with AJ Rafael, David Choi, and KevJumba [Youtube Celebs]. So yes, we got to see a couple of their more recent, unreleased works...WHICH WAS AMAZING.

I got to take a picture with them!

WONG FU PRODUCTIONS!

I actually meant to give these to them, but I decided instead to make them brownie cupcakes which were amazing!

Make sure to check out the rest of the SMS bakers on the blogroll.

Hazelnut Truffles [sms]

This week's SMS choice was Hazelnut Truffles and was chosen by Anne of Living Life Foodcariously. I had brought these along with the ice cream cupcakes to a meeting and everyone enjoyed the chocolate-y truffles that seemed very expensive and too high class for us college students.

I had made these truffles with the Green and Black's Organic chocolate because the store nearby had a sale and decided to splurge a little more after finding the hazelnuts and buy this really nice chocolate.

Sory for the blurry picture, I think I was in a hurry because I had a lot to do this week.

The truffle was easy to make after getting all the ingredients together. I personally didnt have any semisweet chocolate in my place, so I mixed the milk and the dark chocolates together ending up with a 60% cocoa content...so that's about the content of semisweet chocolate. I also subbed the alcohol for almond extract since I am underage therefore no alcohol. =]

bowl as I was scooping it out.

The truffles were super easy to put together and I had covered with rice krispies crushed together and another couple with graham cracker crumbs.

These were super fun to make and super delicious as well.

I also added small pieces of this in the ice cream portion of my Raspberry Chocolate Ice Cream Cupcake.

Recipe for the truffles here! Make sure to check out the rest of the SMS bakers on the blogroll!