VI. Truffles make

Designs. Cut canned truffles into 1/16-inch slices. With a knife, or with small truffle cutters (they come 6 or 12 to a set and are nothing more than miniature cooky cutters) cut out designs to decorate food. Dice the trimmings and pieces left from the slices, and use to decorate the edge of the food, or sprinkle over peeled cherry tomatoes. Do not waste truffle trimmings. If you do not have truffle cutters, you can make some. Remove the erasers from several pencils, then with pliers shape the metal tops into diamonds, squares, or other shapes. Leave one pencil top round. Dip tops into boiling water to sterilize, and then they are ready to use. Extract the truffle pieces from the pencil top with a needle.