the swiss confectioner (someone who makes sweets) makes more than 200 types of confections and pastries. these are all made by hand. the most famous teuscher confections are champagne truffles. teuscher was the first company to make such truffles. they are made with dom perignon champagne, butter cream, and dark cream ganache. they use a 66% dark base chocolate. each is coated in milk chocolate and covered with confectioner's sugar. sometimes they are covered in dark chocolate with unsweetened cocoa powder.