Truffles...

[pat]

I just posted this in a different community, so I thought I'd go ahead and post it here, as well.

Chocolate Truffles

Good bitter or semisweet chocolate
heavy cream, 1 oz of cream for every 2 oz chocolate

Shave or chop chocolate very fine. Place in heat-safe glass bowl. Bring cream to just boiling, and pour over chocolate. Let sit for several minutes (the recipe I used to have somewhere said ten, but I usually do five-seven.) Stir until mixture is smooth, with all the chocolate melted and all the cream incorporated. Let cool, either at room temp or in the fridge. (Note: do not freeze -- they don't turn out well!) When the mixture is firm, roll into balls and roll in cocoa. You can also melt chocolate and dip the truffles in the melted chocolate, as well.

These are surprisingly easy and are amazingly good. Giving someone homemade chocolates wins you big brownie points, generally. (Ask brian1789 how I reacted when he gave me some of these for Valentine's Day in 2000.)

Comments

[porcinea.livejournal.com]

Ohmigoddess these are good! And easy.

I shaved the chocoate using a microplane; that was the only hard part, making lovely chocolate snow. Microwaved the cream for 25 seconds, poured it over, let it rest, stirred it in, et voila!

Thank you for the inspiration.

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

And you can use this to make a killer chocolate cake..... just wait until the mixture cools a little bit, but before it gets stiff, and use it as a filling/frosting. Then when it cools completely, you have a cake covered with chocolate truffles. This is what brian1789 asks for his birthday cake.