Homemade chocolate truffles

CHOCOLATE TRUFFLES RECIPE

Perfect with coffee after a meal and excellent as a tasty snack, chocolate truffles are a dessert hard to resist. Flavored with lemon, cinnamon , or orange, they're simple to make and require just a few ingredients.

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FLAVORED CHOCOLATE TRUFFLES

Let's see, step by step, how to prepare many delicious chocolate truffles at home based on the recipe we found in the interesting book " The Modern Vegetarian " by Maria Elia:

INGREDIENTS (for about 30 truffles)

• 160 ml of liquid cream
• 200 gr chocolate chopped dark chocolate
• 20g diced butter
• 100 g of bitter cocoa for dusting

AROMAS FOR TRUFFLES

• Lemon and thyme: use the zest of a lemon and a few sprigs of thyme
• Lime leaves and chili pepper: use 4 kaffir lime leaves and a red chilli pepper cut in half
• Cardamom and orange: use the peel of an orange with a spoonful of crushed cardamom pods
• Cinnamon: Infuse two cinnamon sticks into the cream and add two teaspoons of cinnamon powder to the cocoa when you sprinkle the truffles.
• Pomegranate and mint: Remove 40 ml from the cream and infuse the remaining mint stalks in the remaining cream and add 40 ml of pomegranate molasses.

Preparation

• After heating the cream, flavor it according to your taste and following the procedure described above, then remove everything from the heat and leave to cool and infuse for about 30 minutes.
• Heat the cream again, bring it almost to the boil and filter it over the chocolate and butter, stirring until the mixture is smooth.
• Pour everything into a plastic container, let it cool and then transfer it to the refrigerator until the mixture is firm.
• Using a melon baller, shape the truffles, dip them in cocoa powder, reshape the mold, and place them in the refrigerator for at least an hour.

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