Recipe for chocolate truffles

In my opinion, the chocolate truffle is one of the most delicious types of chocolates. With this recipe you can make your own chocolate truffles and serve them to your guests or just eat them all yourself. Enjoy!  

Please take your time to buy the right ingredients; look for good quality plain chocolate. One of the best types of chocolate that is available is that of the Belgian brand Callebaut. Do take care that you melt the chocolate slowly and carefully. When chocolate gets to hot it will burn and cannot be used anymore.

Lay out your ingredients before you start.

Ingredients:

• 100g plain chocolate**
• 100g butter
• 100g icing sugar
•  25g cocoa
•  2 tbsp ground hazelnuts
•  1 tbsp orange squash*
•  chocolate sprinkles

* Instead of orange squash you can also use orange liqueur.
** These truffles may also be made with white chocolate. Do take care that the chocolate does not become too hot when you melt it and leave out the orange squash or liqueur.

Needed:

• Mixing bowl
• mixer
• spatula

Preparation:

Break the chocolate into pieces and put the pieces in the mixing bowl. Put a bowl into a pan filled with hot water and let the chocolate melt. Use the mixing bowl and the mixer to whisk the butter until it is creamy. Use the spatula to fold in the icing sugar, cocoa, melted chocolate, hazelnuts and orange squash/liqueur one after the other. Put the mixture in the refrigerator for 2 to 3 hours until it is firm. Then form the chocolate into a roll and cut into equally sized pieces. Form these pieces into little balls and lay them in a bowl filled with the chocolate sprinkles. Carefully shake the bowl so the chocolate balls will be covered with chocolate sprinkles and take out the truffles.

Tip:

Instead of chocolate sprinkles try using a mixture of cocoa and icing sugar to cover the chocolate balls.

Using the recipe above you can make a small amount of chocolate truffles. Do be careful to let the ingredients get really firm in the refrigerator, because otherwise the making of balls will be very difficult.

Enjoy!

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