"American
truffle" is a half-egg shaped chocolate-coated truffle, a mixture of dark
or milk chocolates with butterfat and, in some cases, hardened coconut oil.
Joseph Schmidt, a San Francisco chocolatier, and founder of Joseph Schmidt
Confections, is credited with its creation in the mid-1980s.
According to the San Francisco Chronical his big break came when the Neiman
Marcus Christmas catalog included his chocolates.
After a buyout by
the Hershey’s Company, the original Joseph Schmidt Confections factory was
closed due to the high cost of producing the artful chocolates. Various resources had stated the iconic San Francisco
truffles would continue to be produced by Hershey’s at an alternate facility. However, I have been unable to locate a source
of distribution for these chocolates.
Chocophylls like myself
will only have the legend of the “American Truffle”
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