Chocolate coated Chocolate truffles

Posted On January 1, 2013

The brown-colored standard chocolate truffles.

The pink ones are strawberry flavored truffles.

White Chocolate coated truffles and dark chocolate floral design with Macadamia Nuts stuffed inside & desiccated Coconut rolled Truffles.

Riya’s hand made truffles.

I wish all my viewers, friends, and family a very Happy New Year 2013! On this special occasion, we enjoyed the homemade gorgeous truffles. Simple to make and with only a few ingredients needed, it was fun making it with Riya again during this holiday time.

Back in India, when we visit families and friends, it is a tradition to get them some sweets and fresh flowers. The flowers are worn on women’s hair or offered to God.

Some of the famous sweets in India are Ladoos, colorful Rasagullas, milk sweets…..

Whenever I see truffles in bakery and Confectionery shops, I used to remember the Ladoo’s of India as the shape of Ladoo’s as well is spherical. The truffles are arranged beautifully with different toppings and colors  and look quite impressive and taste yummy and melt in the mouth.

For this new year, I tried these truffles and they came out really good. Truffles mixture is more or less like Ganache but with less cream. The Chocolate, Cream, and butter mixture are rolled into small balls and topped with favorite nuts or Coco powder. The Recipe is as follows

Ingredients:

For Truffle:

1. Semi Dark Chocolate – 220gms
2. Heavy cream – 100ml
3. Butter – 2 Tbsp
4. Cocoa Powder – 50gms (for rolling )
5. Optional ingredients – (Coconut flakes, finely chopped pistachios, sugar sprinkles, and chopped nuts). I used halved macadamia nuts to stuff inside truffles.

For outer Chocolate coating:

1. White or dark chocolate – 100gms

Method:

1. Heat the cream in a bowl until it starts to boil and remove from heat.

2. Add finely chopped or shaved chocolates and butter into the hot cream.

3. Mix all of them together until smooth liquid consistency and leave it overnight in the fridge.

4. Measure a spoon of truffle mixture and make it into ball and roll in Coco powder. Alternatively, the truffles can be rolled into pistachios or Coconut powder or sugar crispies. I used halved Macadamia nuts as the stuffing inside the truffles.

5. If an additional chocolate layer around the truffle is needed, melt the desired white or black chocolate under double boiling until smooth liquid consistency and dip the truffles in them. Take the dipped chocolate out and allow it to dry in the butter sheet.

6. With the truffles inside and outer layered chocolate, I piped some designs on them.

( The pink ones are made from white chocolate truffle with a little bit of strawberry flavoring and color. This recipe for this one is not included here.) 

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