Dessert Recipes

Brandied Chocolate Truffles

Ingredients:

340 grams sweet chocolate, broken into small pieces
1/4 cup unsalted butter, cut into 4 pieces
3/4 cup whipping cream, scalded
1 & 1/2 tablespoons brandy or cognac
Confectioner's sugar
170 - 225 grams semi-sweet chocolate, broken into small pieces

How to make Brandied Chocolate Truffles:

In a medium saucepan over low fire, heat sweet chocolate with butter until melted. Slowly strain hot cream into chocolate mixture, 1/4 cup at a time, beating with mixer at low speed or whisking by hand until blended.
Drizzle brandy into chocolate mixture, stirring until smooth. Cover and refrigerate until firm, about 2 hours (or overnight, if desired). With spoon or melon baller, drop 1 inch mounds od chilled chocolate mixture onto baking sheet lined with wax paper.
Refrigerate until firm, about 30 minutes. Rinse hands with very cold water then dry. Rub palms with confectioners suagr. Working quickly, shape each chocolate mound into a 1 inch ball. Freeze until firm about 30 minutes.
Melt semisweet chocolate. Line a second baking sheet with wax paper. Remove 10 balls from freezer. Working quickly, hold one ball at a time and dip entirely into warm chocolate. Shake off excess chocolate, place on wax paper. Repeat until all balls have been dipped.
With fork, sptula of kitchen knife, drizzle any remaining chocolate in a thin stream over balls(re-heat chocolate if neccessary). Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Transfer to paper candy cups and store airtight in refrigerator. ( Keeps up to two weeks in refrigerator)
Makes about 2 & 1/2 dozen truffles.

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