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Nutella Chocolate Fish

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I decided that my exciting first foray into making filled chocolates would be with Nutella-filled dark chocolate with cocoa powder and a drizzle of milk chocolate.   This first batch is certainly not perfect and it took a bit of patience, but it's surprisingly easy once you figure out how to make the shells and seal them.
 

Sesame Snack

I've seen plenty of Asian sesame snacks like this, but there's apparently a very similar Greek one.  Can you guess which of the above is from Greece and which is from Taiwan?  Both are packaged in 100g bars of sweet sesame goodness, but there's one important difference: the Taiwanese version has a bit of salt in it.  The ingredients listed for the Greek one are: sesame(67%), glucose syrup, sugar, and honey; the Taiwanese one contains sesame(66.7%), sugar(20.7%), maltose(7.5%), and salt(0.1%).  It's funny to think that there's probably corn in the Greek one, given that glucose syrup is usually made from cornstarch.