For Your Tastebuds Only...

Now, ths is not a cookery blog by any means and I am in the process of writing some new material for your reading pleasure but I thought after my last post, I had better offset the level of disgust that many of you may have experienced with a more palatable creation.....CHOCOLATE TRUFFLES. Incredibly easy to make, if a little expensive but not only do they taste amazing, they make good gifts too (if you can bear to give them away). Im not really a chocolate person, especially not milk chocolate (yuk) but I do like dark chocolate.

So here you go, you will thank me for it later!

For the Filling:

200g Dark Chocolate -(must be 70% cocoa solid or more)

200ml Double Cream

For the Coating:

Cocoa Powder

You can use whatever you fancy for the coating but I like coconut or ground nuts on mine.

Method:

Boil the cream, pour it over the chocolate and whisk until the texture is thick and it becomes glossy. Let the mixture cool for a few minutes and then put it in the fridge for an hour.

Dust your fingers with cocoa powder to stop the chocolate from melting and becoming too sticky and then roll a small piece of chocolate between your fingers to form a little ball. Dip it into some melted chocolate to coat and then dip the ball straight into whatever you want as your outer coating.

If you have any cream and chocolate left over you could also make some real hot chocolate out of it. Its even easier than the truffles, you boil the cream and pour over the chocolate as usual then just top it up with milk. Simple and soo tasty it beats the crap out of powdered hot chocolate anyday. If you can be bothered, you can add cinnamon and other flavours to it but I like it plain. That's it. Enjoy!