food by day

Back with the chocolate theme (at this rate the blogs more about sweet things than savoury, though I’m not saying that it is a bad thing!)

For those who like chocolate, things need to be simple, nothing too fancy.  I adore chocolate truffles, you get the luxurious flavour of chocolate melting away.  The issue is, they see to be damn expensive for just one or two little truffles with your coffee.

Fret not, as they are easy enough to make, as long as you don’t mind getting your hands messy.

Makes 18-24 truffles (dependent on size/greed etc)

• Heat the cream(115 ml) and butter ( 15 gm)  in a saucepan, and bring to the boil
• Pour this over 150 gm of broken dark chocolate
• Allow this to stand (2/3 minutes) to melt the chocolate
• Stir with a whisk till smooth

Then just take this mixture, and put it in your fridge for a couple of hours (or overnight)

It is then onto the fun part, take spoonfulls of your truffle mixture and roll them into a ball and coat with cocoa powder.  

Once created, place them back in the fridge to firm up.  They will last for a week or two, but it is likely that friends and family will have made sure they don’t!