Delicious Easy Truffle Recipes

Easy truffle recipes can taste just as smooth, dark, creamy and delicious as the gourmet, luxury, chocolate gifts you buy in the store. At least, that's what I've found, and I hope you'll agree with me once you've tried this recipe :-)

Ever since I first tasted one, I've wanted to learn how to make truffles, but I always imagined they must be hard to make. So when I first found this easy truffle recipe, I thought there must be a mistake! How can you make truffles with only four ingredients?

Surely making chocolate truffles can't be this easy?

I bought the ingredients, mixed them together, and the result was really quite delicious. In terms of maximum yuminess for minimum effort, this must be the best truffle recipe out there :-) The photos on this page don't really do the truffles justice... if only I could capture the smooth chocolatey melting sensation they make in your mouth. Mmmm

Did I mention that chocolate truffles make great gifts? They fit so nicely into gift boxes, and you can be 99% sure the person will like their gift. (Let's face it, those are better odds than for knitting a sweater...)

Delicious Easy Truffle Recipe

Makes 12-15 truffles. Are you making this as a gift? Then if I were you, I'd double the recipe and keep half for yourself ;-)

Ingredients:

• 200 ml Double Cream
• 200 g quality chocolate
• 1 Tbsp Rum or Cointreau
• 1 tsp orange rind

I like to use dark chocolate (e.g. Lindt with 70% cocoa), but use whatever sort of chocolate you like best. Just make sure you use good quality chocolate - the quality of your truffles depends on it!

If you don't like the taste of alcohol, you can substitute jam (e.g. raspberry or strawberry) instead of rum or cointreau.

Method:

1. Break up the chocolate into small pieces and place in a bowl.

2. Mix the rum and orange rind with the double cream in a saucepan. Slowly bring the mixture to the boil, then remove from the heat.

3. Pour the hot cream mixture over the chocolate. Stir continuously until all the chocolate has melted and you have a smooth, thick, truffle mixture.

4. Allow the truffle mixture to cool for about 2 hours in the fridge.

5. Take small amounts of truffle mixture and roll into balls (I usually take teaspoon-sized scoops of mixture).

6. Coat your truffles in cocoa, dried coconut, crushed pistachios, crushed almonds, chocolate sprinkles or any other coating you can think of! Rest the coated truffles on waxed paper and allow to re-set in the fridge.

Storage: Store in the fridge and eat within 1 week. They're so yummy they probably won't last that long anyway :-)

Notes
See how my truffles are a bit lumpy and not quite round? That's because I let this batch of mixture sit in the fridge for too long (overnight actually) before rolling it into balls, and the mixture went a bit too hard for rolling. They still tasted yummy though :-)

What Next?

Are you using this easy truffle recipe to make chocolate truffles as a gift? In that case, why not make your own gift box for them :-)

Line your gift box with tissue paper, fill with luxury homemade chocolate truffles, and secure the box with a pretty ribbon. Looks beautiful, tastes great, and inexpensive too!

Are you a chocolate lover? Then check out these other choco-pages:
Choc-chip cookies in a jar
Decadent chocolate brownies
Chocolate-dipped strawberries


Happy Gifting!