Delicious treat for tea with your own hands. A delicacy for children and adults. TOP 6 recipes for chocolate truffles. How to cook them correctly?
Chocolate truffles with cognac
Sweets according to this recipe contain an alcoholic drink in their composition, so they are not suitable for a children's table. But making them as a gift for a loved one is an excellent option.
Ingredients:
- Bitter chocolate (for example, Babaevsky) - 150 g
- Heavy cream 35% - 70 ml
- Powdered sugar - 2 tablespoons
- Cognac - 1 tablespoon
- Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
- Cocoa powder for sprinkling - 3 tablespoons
Step by step preparation of chocolate truffles with cognac:
- Break the dark chocolate into small pieces and melt in a water bath. To do this, put a saucepan with water on the fire, and then, as it boils, place a wide and deep bowl on top of it, in which the dark chocolate will be placed.
- Take a small saucepan and place the cream and powdered sugar in it. Put it on fire. Bring these ingredients to a boil, but do not let the mixture boil.
- Now pour the hot creamy sugar mixture into the melted chocolate.
- Add cognac and vanilla essence to it, stir.
- Then cover the bowl with this chocolate and aromatic cream with cling film and refrigerate. In the cold, the mixture should stand for at least 40 minutes.
- After you take this cream out of the refrigerator, start shaping the candies. The cooled mixture should resemble soft plasticine in consistency.
- You can shape sweets using a teaspoon and a cutting board. If you start rolling the balls in your hands, and not on the board, then the mixture will melt faster, which you do not need at all.
- Roll up the balls and place them on a large flat plate or cutting board.
- After using all the chocolate cream, put the balls on the board in the refrigerator. Let them stand there for about 20 minutes.
- Then sift the cocoa onto a wide plate and roll in the balls. Your homemade chocolate truffles are ready. Bon Appetit!
Keep the finished treat in the refrigerator in a tightly closed container. This will prevent the truffles from absorbing unwanted odors and drying out.
Chocolate truffles with nuts
This version of the treat is more festive in nature, so we recommend preparing such truffles for a solemn occasion.
Ingredients:
- Large pitted dates - 15 pcs.
- Unsweetened coconut flakes - 100 g
- Raw almonds or other nuts - 100 g
- Coconut oil at room temperature - 2 tablespoons
- Cocoa powder - 4 tablespoons
- Water (coffee, orange juice) - 1 tablespoon
- Ground cinnamon (chili pepper) - 1 tsp
- Cocoa powder - 1 tablespoon (for decoration)
- Finely chopped nuts - 1 tablespoon (for decoration)
- Coconut flakes - 1 tablespoon (for decoration)
- Oatmeal - 1 tablespoon (for decoration)
Step-by-step preparation of chocolate truffles at home with nuts:
- Use a food processor to chop and mix all of the listed ingredients. If not, then you will have to manually crush the nuts and grind the dates. Combine all ingredients and mix the mixture thoroughly.
- Then put the resulting mass in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- Remove the mixture and roll it into balls. Do not make it very large, just make it the size of a walnut. You should have about 20 of these delicious rounds.
- Then roll some of them in oatmeal, some in cocoa, some in nuts, and some more in coconut.
- Hide the truffles in the refrigerator. They need to stand there for 20 minutes.
Truffles in white chocolate
Chocolate truffles according to this recipe are distinguished by their special beauty and soft taste due to the white chocolate in this treat.
Ingredients:
- Dark chocolate - 200 g
- Heavy cream 35% - 60 ml
- Softened butter - 1 tablespoon
- Nutella Paste - 1/3 cup
- White chocolate - 200 g (for decoration)
- Vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon (for decoration)
- Confectionery chocolate topping - 3 tbsp (for decoration)
How to prepare white chocolate truffles step by step:
- Prepare a small saucepan and fill it with water. Place a deep bowl on top, and in it add Nutella chocolate paste, dark chocolate chopped into pieces, and butter.
- Remember to stir the melting ingredients periodically.
- Then add cream to the same bowl and bring the mixture to a smooth state.
- Remove from the steam bath and let cool. It is best to cool the mass in the refrigerator for 2 hours with the lid closed.
- After 2 hours, start sculpting balls, you can do this with a teaspoon. Use a spoon to scoop up the chocolate mass from a bowl and use your hands to sculpt the balls.
- If they stick to your hands a lot, sprinkle the chocolate with cocoa powder.
- Place the finished balls on a cutting board or wide plate and place in the freezer for 10 minutes.
- Now melt the truffle decorating ingredients in a water bath. You can also do this in the microwave. Melt the white chocolate along with the vegetable oil.
- Then dip each ball of your treat in melted white chocolate. Use a toothpick for convenience. You can put balls on it before sending it into the chocolate mass.
- Place truffles on a flat, large dish.
- Without waiting for the white chocolate layer to cool down, sprinkle the candy with chocolate powder.
- If there is still melted chocolate mass, pour it over your truffles, creating a beautiful pattern.
- Place the treat in the refrigerator for 30 minutes before serving for tea.
If the guests do not eat all the truffles at once, then store the leftovers in the refrigerator as well.
Snowman Chocolate Truffles
This recipe for chocolate truffles is perfect for a children's holiday table. You can cook them not only for the New Year, but even in the summer. Kids will be happy with such a beautiful yummy at any time of the year.
Ingredients:
- Chocolate cookies - 400 g
- Cream cheese (e.g. Philadelphia) - 230 g
- Mint essence optional - 1 tsp
- White chocolate - 450 g (for decoration)
- Vanilla essence - 0.5 tsp (for decoration)
- Almond essence - 0.5 tsp (for decoration)
- Orange sugar beads from pastry topping - 14 pcs. (for decoration)
- Dark grated chocolate or black icing - 1 tsp (for decoration)
How to prepare truffle snowmen step by step:
- First, you need to grind the cookies. This can be done with your hands, or you can resort to using a combine.
- Mix crushed cookies with butter and mint essence. Stir the ingredients until smooth.
- Now start sculpting balls. You need to sculpt 42 pcs. different sizes. Remember that later you will need to form snowmen from them. For example, make 14 balls with a diameter of 3 cm, 14 - 2 cm, 14 - 1.5 cm.
- Place the finished balls on a large cutting board or on several small ones. In this case, the surface should be covered with wax paper. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Then melt white chocolate in a water bath or microwave to decorate future truffle snowmen.
- Add vanilla and almond essence to melted chocolate. Mix the ingredients vigorously.
- Take the balls out of the refrigerator and shape them into snowmen by pressing them together.
- Place each snowman on a toothpick and dip in the white chocolate frosting.
- Carefully remove the toothpicks from the snowmen, and you can place them on the cutting board.
- Then, until the white chocolate is dry on them, decorate the spouts with orange sprinkle beads.
- Melt the dark chocolate and paint mouths and eyes on your truffle snowmen. Buttons can also be decorated with melted chocolate mass.
- Let the snowman art completely freeze and serve. Children will love it!
Chocolate truffles with rum and powdered sugar
Truffles are prepared very quickly according to this recipe, and what is their aroma …
Ingredients:
- Powdered sugar - 175 g
- Softened butter - 120 g
- Cocoa powder - 2 tablespoons
- Rum - 1 tablespoon
- Cocoa powder - 1 tablespoon (for decoration)
- Grated chocolate - 1 tablespoon (for decoration)
- Coconut flakes - 1 tablespoon (for decoration)
- Roasted almonds or hazelnuts - 1-2 tablespoons (for decoration)
- Melted dark chocolate - 1 tablespoon (for decoration)
- Powdered sugar - 1 tablespoon (for decoration)
Step by step preparation of truffles with rum and powdered sugar:
- Put butter and icing sugar in a mixer bowl. Turn on the appliance and beat these ingredients into a homogeneous fluffy mass.
- Add cocoa powder and rum to this. Stir again.
- Make balls from the resulting chocolate mass and roll them in different sprinkles. You can divide it into three parts: roll the first in coconut, the second in cocoa, and the third in grated chocolate.
- Then place the balls on a wide-edged dish and garnish with crushed nuts and powdered sugar. Top them with a thin stream of melted chocolate.
- Then place the candy in the refrigerator. They should lie there before serving for at least 1 hour.
If you do not eat the candies at once, then put them away for storage in the refrigerator, covering them with a lid or cling film. But usually such goodies fly off the table very quickly, especially in families with an avid sweet tooth.
Video recipes for chocolate truffles
Now you know how to make chocolate truffles at home. From now on, every time your guests will enjoy a new treat for tea. Bon Appetit!
