Dip every truffle within the chocolate and faucet off the excess, then place on a baking paper lined cookie sheet. Alternately, you can fill a piping bag (fitting with a ½-inch round tip) and pipe 1-inch mounds on a prepared baking sheet. Once cleaned, wrap every truffle individually in a fresh sheet of kitchen paper towel. Many novices have mistaken humid water marks on paper for white spore prints, or discolored paper from oozing liquids on lamella edges for coloured spored prints. For context, the rare and extremely sought after white Alba truffle can sell for over $2,000 a pound, while black truffle can run you over $300 a pound. While fashionable identification of mushrooms is rapidly turning into molecular, the standard strategies for identification are nonetheless used by most and have developed right into a fine artwork harking back to medieval occasions and the Victorian period, combined with microscopic examination.