In case you hadn’t heard, tub truffles are a cross between a bath bomb and bath oils. They contain citric acid and baking soda to make them fizz like a bath bomb and a healthy dose of cocoa butter makes them somewhat oily, but luxurious! These are scented with a chocolate fragrance and also contain some real chocolate.

I’ve had my ups and downs with these over the past few days, but I’ve made enough to take with me to the Haute Market tomorrow night. Out of three batches, the first batch turned out the best. The second batch I had to completely throw out because the new cocoa butter that I opened had a chemical smell to it that didn’t go away. Ugh, that was not what I needed. I ended up using kokum butter for the third batch. It’s similar in texture to cocoa butter and those worked out ok, except that the batter cooled too fast and got hard before I could get it all into the molds! I tried sticking the mixture in the microwave on half power for about a minute. It softened up, but then after I got them into the molds, some of the citric acid started fizzing. I was able to salvage about half of that batch.

As you can see, in addition to the seashells, I also made some squares. I wrapped them all in candy foils and started putting them in my cute cello bags that I told you about, but the bags were so big, they held about 10 truffles! So I used the smaller plain bags that I used to wrap my bath bombs in, added some chocolate brown paper shreds, and tied them off with pink and silver ribbons. I put three seashells or five squares in each bag. Cute, cute, cute!

So tomorrow night is the Haute Market. I’m going to be working hard tomorrow to get everything ready, but it’s going to be great! I’ll try to take some pictures. RahRah will be there to help me sell my stuff – I’m so excited! All my Preferred Customers will receive a 10% discount!