Chocolate truffles make a wonderful gift for anyone on your gift list or you can serve them at your next get-together. You have to make sure that you make enough because these chocolate truffles will not last long. These chocolate confections are easy to make even for people without any candy making experience.
Chocolate, Butter and Cream Confection
Chocolate truffles are a chocolate, butter and cream filling that is chilled until it is firm enough to handle. When sufficiently chilled, small balls are formed that are then rolled in various coatings. These chocolate confections are a favorite with many chocolate lovers.
Experiment with Flavors and Coatings
A chocolate truffle recipe can be varied by adding different flavored ingredients to either the filling or the coating. For instance, to enhance the flavor of the filling, you may add ground or chopped nuts, honey, dried fruit, preserves, jelly, shredded coconut, coconut oil, spices, coffee, extracts, wine and spirits. Various coatings that you can use to change the flavor and appearance of your coating include cocoa, cinnamon and cocoa, powdered sugar, shredded coconut, chopped nuts, colored sugar, toasted and chopped nuts, grated or scraped chocolate and melted chocolate. From the basic recipe below, you can serve delicious truffles. You can also dress it up as either Champagne Truffles or Honey Truffles easily.
Chocolate Truffles Recipe
Makes 24 Truffles
Filling Ingredients
- 1 pound Chocolate
- 8 oz. Heavy Whipping Cream
- 1 Tablespoon unsalted Butter, softened
- (Optional: 1 Tablespoon Vanilla Extract)
- Coating for entire Batch Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Cocoa Powder or Confectioner's Sugar
- or
- 1 pound Chocolate, melted
Directions
- Finely chop chocolate and set aside in a heat proof glass bowl.
- Add cream to a saucepan and gently heat until the cream bubbles at the edges of the pan. Pour the hot cream over the chopped chocolate. Stir until the chocolate has melted and the mixture is smooth. A whisk will speed up this part.
- Blend in the butter. If you want to add the vanilla extract, blend it in after the butter has been added.
- Cover the bowl and chill for a few hours to overnight until the mixture is firm enough to handle.
- When the mixture is firm, place your coating on a plate. If you are using different coatings, use a separate plate for each coating.
- Remove your truffle filling mixture from the fridge. It will warm up and soften as you roll the confections. Use a teaspoon of the mixture and roll into a ball. While the mixture is still slightly melted, roll the molded ball in the coating. Set the truffle onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment or waxed paper. Continue to roll each truffle in the coating until you are finished with the batch. Put the mixture back in the fridge for twenty minutes to firm up the filling as needed.
- When you have finished coating the batch, chill the coated truffles to firm them again. For a better flavor, you may remove them from the refrigerator for an hour or so before serving.
Champagne Truffles: At step three, add and blend in three tablespoons of champagne to the filling mixture right after the butter has been blended in. Use a cocoa powder or chocolate dipped coating. Adding liquids such as champagne or honey to a truffle mixture can soften the final confection and make chilling it to a mold-able texture take longer than if the liquid were not in the recipe.
Honey Truffles: When you are gently heating the cream, add two tablespoons of honey. Stir and dissolve the honey the cream and honey mixture is heating. Use a coating made from chopped nuts or cocoa powder. The addition of honey will soften the resulting filling.
It is easy to make chocolate truffles for gift chocolates, including champagne truffles and honey truffles. You can experiment with this basic recipe for gift chocolates that can suit anyone's favorite truffle flavor and truffle flavor combinations. Your gift chocolates will be sure to please even the most fussy person on your list.
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