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Chocolate Truffles, Fine Chocolate Gifts, Chocolate Covered Pretzels, Caramels, Chocolate Wedding & Party Favors, and other fine collectibles!
Chocolate Treats
Caramels
Copyright © 2011 Ashanti Chocolat. All Rights Reserved
Yaa Asantewaa Truffles
These oversized chocolate truffles are individually molded and artistically designed to create a chocolate masterpiece. But their true beauty lies within. Each silky, rich piece is like a petite, luxurious chocolate dessert. Our best selling gourmet chocolate gifts!
Cointreau – Smooth creamy white chocolate infused with Cointreau and bits of sweet coconut, Ginger Crunch - Unique ginger caramel ganache with bits of caramel crunch encased in a milk chocolate shell. Cinnamon Chile - Creamy dark chocolate ganache infused with the warmth of sweet cinnamon and spicy ancho chile in a sculptured dark chocolate shell. Raspberry – Masterful blend of tangy raspberry and rich dark chocolate, makes this traditional simply elegant.
History...Yaa Asantewaa (c. 1840 – October 17, 1921) (pronounced YAY ah-SAN-te-wah) was appointed Queen Mother of Ejisu (Asante Confederacy)—now part of modern-day Ghana—by her brother Nana Akwasi Afrane Okpese, the Ejisuhene (ruler of Ejisu). In 1900 she led the Ashanti rebellion known as the War of the Golden Stool against British colonialism.
She took on leadership of the Ashanti Uprising of 1900, gaining the support of some of the other Ashanti nobility. Later in the year, Queen Yaa Asantewaa and 15 of her closest advisers were captured, and they too were sent into exile to the Seychelles.
Yaa Asantewaa died in exile on October 17, 1921. Three years after her death, on December 27, 1924, Prempeh I and the other remaining members of the exiled Ashanti court were allowed to return to Ashanti region in Ghana. Prempeh I made sure that the remains of Yaa Asantewaa and the other exiled Ashantis were returned for a proper royal burial. Yaa Asantewaa's dream for an Ashanti free of British rule was realized on March 6, 1957, when the Ashanti protectorate gained independence as part of Ghana, the first African nation to achieve this feat.
Yaa Asantewaa remains a much-loved figure in Ashanti history and the history of Ghana as a whole for the courage she showed in confronting injustice during the colonialism of the British.
