Who doesn’t love a
Chocolate Truffle? These delicious morsels of chocolate are covered in nuts,
sugars and other flavourings or dipped in Chocolate. They melt in your mouth,
warm your soul and finish off a meal beautifully. Every year at this time the
speciality Chocolate stores are filled with beautifully wrapped Chocolate
Truffles boxes. Although they can be pretty expensive, they pretty much fly off
the shelves. I’m going to make a basic Chocolate
Truffle and roll it in some Cinnamon sugar to capture the flavours of the
Holidays. This is so easy that you’d be tempted to make boxes of these treats
for your own family and friends.
For
the best truffles you must use really good quality Chocolate that has a
cocoa percentage of 70% or higher I’m
using a semi sweet chocolate and I need about 200 gms chopped. You can
either
chop this by hand or dump them in a food processor to save time. This is
covered in simmering cream and melted into a ganache. What I love about
Chocolate Truffles is that you can customize them anyway you like by
adding flavoured liqueurs to the ganache and experimenting with
different coatings. I started with Cinnamon sugar but also made some
rolled in icing sugar, grated chocolate and chopped nuts. This
assortment makes a beautiful gift box for the holidays.
Ingredients
200 gms dark chocolate
1 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsps Cinnamon Sugar
Process
Chop the chocolate using a knife or food processor
Heat the cream to a simmer
Pour over the chocolate and leave for 30 seconds before stirring
Once the chocolate has totally melted, add the flavourings if required and pour into a tupperware container and let set in the fridge for 4 hrs
After 4 hours use an ice cream scoop to scoop out the chocolate and drop in the sugar before rolling between your clean hands
Coat the truffles again in the sugar
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