Valentine day!

Hi everybody!!

How was your valentine day?

Romantic? Busy? 

In Japan, women give chocolate to men. Handmade chocolate for your lover and a bought one for your friends/colleagues/family...

But now you have so many kind of chocolates: "friend choco", "thank you choco" etc.

In exchange, men are supposed to give back on March 14th to the girl 10 times the value of what they get.

Anyway, as far as I'm in Japan I wanted to make some handmade chocolates.

I went last Saturday at my friend's place(whose husband is a pastry chef)to learn how to make some chocolate.

First we put some food-coloring in a tin:

After that you put some melted chocolate and it comes like this:

We also made some Eiffel tower chocolates:

This one is nice too, quite proud of myself:

I bought some decoration. Each item only cost 100yen!!!!

Then on Monday night, a colleague and I made some truffles.
Quite easy to make, only chocolate, fresh cream, butter and cocoa powder are required.

 Choco ball candy:

Tried some jam with raspberry, blueberry, strawberry and a lot of sugar:

 Taste was good!

I also cooked some crepes and brought everything with my colleague at work.
Tadaaaaam:

Chocolates and crepes had a lot of success!!!
Mission cleared!!!