Lines --- mmmmmmmm!

Toured a small local chocolate factory yesterday. This is one of the 2 women who hand-dip all the truffles and dipped chocolates. There are only 200 people in the entire country who do this, and 2 of them work here. She breaks off some truffle with her left hand, rolls it into a ball, puts it into the chocolate on the slab in front of her, and covers it using her right hand. As she sets it on the tray she gives a little twist of her wrist to form the lovely little swirl on the top of the truffle. Each flavor has a different swirl, or wrist action. She has to work quickly as the chocolate sets up quickly and she needs to keep the stuff on the slab at working temperature. It takes her less than 15 seconds to do one piece...without looking, too! Look at all the chocolate on her hand...and this is good stuff--no wax or paraffin in it. Just pure chocolate calories.

And, I couldn't resist these lines. These are dipped and coated raspberry creams, with a little drizzle across the top.
And these are fresh, ready-to-be-boxed peanut clusters. Gotta love all that dark chocolate. It's good for you...really!