Ok so I normally only blog my crafty makes but I am pleased with these babies so thought I would share the loveliness (and the recipe) so everyone can enjoy!
It is Valentines Day a day late in our house as while I was of work all day yesterday, Dan was working from 8:30 in the morning to 9 at night on the real Valentine's Day - not much room for romance there!!! Never ones to follow the crowd we decided to have it on the 15th as we are both off work. Lovely.
This was a present I made for both of us. We are having an economy drive at the moment and expensive chocs were definitely not in the budget. However, these little lovelies only cost me about £1.50 for 12 super lush truffles - that we can afford. (the eagle eyed of you might notice there is only 10 here - we had already tried them before i took the photo :) )
They are really simple to make. I would love to tell you where I got the recipe from to credit the genius that wrote it but I got it off the internet years ago and have no idea - but whoever you are I owe you one.
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Generic Chocolate Truffle Recipe
8 ounces of semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
1/2 cup whipping cream (32% milk fat)
1/4 cup unsalted butter
2 tsp vanilla OR 4 tsp favourite liquer
Place whipping cream and chocolate in a heavy saucepan over low
continue stirring until butter is melted. Remove from heat and
let cool to room temperature. Add liquer or vanilla (or nothing!
Works this way also). Let sit in refrigerator until hard (about
eight hours or so). Dig out by the teaspoon and form into balls,
then roll in finely chopped nuts (ground almonds are heavenly),
cocoa, icing sugar, or coconut or dip in chocolate.
(the only thing I do different is I melt my chocolate over simmering water in a metal bowl - much less chance of burning the precious chocolate)
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In this case I made orange truffles coated with candied orange peel (homemade - really easy and super gorgeous, you get candied orange peel and a fantastic orange syrup from making it mmmmmm - look for instructions on the web and never throw your old orange peel away again), orange truffles coated in orange chocolate (just regular chocolate melted with a bit of orange zest in it). Both orange varieties have triple sec in the truffle mix - hooray! Also there are vanilla truffles coated in chocolate surprise (the surprise being popping candy in the chocolate - popping candy is great, it is a couple of quid from the supermarket and it last for ages and ages as you only need a bit of it)
Quick tip - I froze the truffles first before I coated them in the melted chocolate - it means they don't melt and the choclate sets super quick on the outside of them.
All in all gorgeous and inexpensive - therefore excellent.
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