If you happen to be browsing around your local Costco this November and December, keep an eye out for Truffettes de France, Chocolate French Truffles dusted with cocoa powder. Costco brings these in by the pallet full every holiday season, but if you try and find it online good luck, it’s not there. This is an in store special only. And it is special, for $9.99 a 2lb box, good luck beating that. But just because it’s low cost, is it low taste?
At first, it doesn’t look like much, in fact it looks pretty gross.
Actual size: inch across, inch tall and inch wide.
Inside, they look pretty much the same:
With a little light and with no light, you can see just how dark this truffles are.
But how do they taste?
The first ingredient is vegetable oil and that’s pretty prevalent from the texture as soon as you start chewing. Not to say that it’s bad, it’s certainly smooth, but it’s not the milky smoothness you expect from a truffle. It is most certainly a very dense piece of chocolate.
It’s sweet and very chocolatey tasting with a faint crunchiness of sugar in the background (that or my sample piece rolled in sand) and while it’s good, I know I couldn’t possibly eat more than a couple of pieces. After that, sugar coma will set in and I’ll start to feel sick from the overload.
The verdict: buy them and set them out at your next holiday gathering. They’ll be sure to disappear but you won’t be tempted into eating the whole box in one sitting and then fall victim to early onset sugar comas.
December 7th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
I have tried the chocolates, and they are soooo great!! I have spent two years looking for the chocolates and finally found them. mmm yummy!!
December 10th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
These chocolates are disgusting they have a fake taste, probably because they use ingredients never called for. These not Truffels. using not real butter. Disgusting I am giving mine away to someone who will eat them.
December 15th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
These truffles are AMAZING. They completely melt in your mouth and don’t have that typical sugary sweet chocolate taste. The cocoa dusting gives an immediate almost bitter taste which is quickly followed by melt in your mouth heaven. Extremely moreish.
December 22nd, 2009 at 7:59 am
I was given these as a gift. I opened them and did not expect the powdery outside. Once I popped one in my mouth I was hooked for life. I have compared these with the truffles from World Market ($16 a pound). The Costco version is SO much better ($5/lb). If you love dark chocolate, you will love these! And you will NOT be tempted to eat them endlessly. They are satisfying sweets!
December 22nd, 2009 at 10:46 am
Agreed! You most definitely get the bang for your buck with these.
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:58 pm
Someone gave a box to my husband as a gift, and it was love at first bite! To keep it from melting, I refrigerate it. We’ll definitely buy our own box at Costco next year. It is one of the best chocolates we’ve ever had.
December 28th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
I received 4 lbs. of these truffles as a gift. See the Pepperidge Farm website for “chocolate ravioli” using their puff pastry. My plan is to use them as the filling for these mini-chocolate croissants and take them to work. Hey, I just can’t eat 4 lbs. of chocolate all by myself!!!
December 28th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Um, wow. That is the best idea I have ever heard! I need to run down to Costco before they’re gone for the season!
January 6th, 2010 at 3:42 pm
[...] wouldn’t be my first choice for a tasty treat, but I was pleasantly surprised. Just like the Truffettes de France, the cocoa power dusted over each French truffle leaves a brown mess on your fingers (I recommend [...]
March 3rd, 2010 at 12:11 pm
When I think chocolate truffles, I think Lindt or See’s Candy. Something like that. But when my sister in-law brought these chocolates over and I tried one. OMG! I love these chocolates sooo much, they’re the richest form of chocolate candy I’ve tasted. THE best!!!