Truffles & Chestnuts...great combo!
Mark's Christmas specialty- Chocolate Truffles!
We've been using the recipe found on the Martha Stewart website (click to view it) for the past several years. They're a little time consuming to make but completely divine!
This year Mark decided to do three different coating options- one ground nuts, another cocoa powder and the last one finely ground coffee mixed with cocoa powder. 
Annika really wante to help make them this year. She got to spoon the coating on the truffles.
A tray of delicious truffles waiting for a hungry person to devour them.
As the song goes..."chestnuts roasting over an open fire..."
We fell in love with these chestnuts while spending Christmas in Austria two years ago. They're called heisse Maroni. You buy them from street-side vendors- and they give you a newspaper cone filled with hot chestnuts. Oh...and don't forget the gluehwein or kinderpunsch! Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas without those foods and drinks!
We fell in love with these chestnuts while spending Christmas in Austria two years ago. They're called heisse Maroni. You buy them from street-side vendors- and they give you a newspaper cone filled with hot chestnuts. Oh...and don't forget the gluehwein or kinderpunsch! Christmas just wouldn't be Christmas without those foods and drinks!
Wow!! That is so neat!! I've never "roasted" chestnuts before. I bet they were delicious!!
I have never roasted the chestnuts on the stove top - how long did they take? They look so good!! Mark's truffles are excellent - thank you
I love hearing about how the chestnuts are sold in Austria. Never had them before, either. It all looks delicious!
Chestnuts roasting on an open ... um ... skillet? I will definitely have to look for chestnuts next Christmas and see what my family thinks of them. And we can vouch for those truffles, from the ones you shared in our Christmas goodies box. Yum! Your girls look very happy and relaxed in these pictures. Looks like a very nice, happy, quiet time at home.