Valentines Day Chocolates

I'm not much into the commercial aspects of valentines day, but I do enjoy an excuse to spread a little affection. This year I decided to make my friends some home baked treats to show them I care and that I was thinking of them.
My best friend Dana and I spent tuesday baking up a storm and making/preparing boxes. We made chocolate sandwich cookies filled with orange, mint, or vanilla buttercream with raspberry jam. We baked almond peanut shortbreads with chocolate centres and hazelnut chocolate cookies. We also made dark chocolate truffles with various ganache centres, milk chocolate irish cream, dark chocolate kahlua, dark chocolate absinthe and and grand marnier coconut white chocolate. Plus two types of cookie dough truffles which use alcohol as a preservative and contain no eggs. Yum.It was so much fun.
Then next day I gave them out, which was the most exciting part!