Quick & Easy Chocolate Truffles

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup 35% cream, plus
• 3 tablespoons 35% cream
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate
• 1 3/4 cups milk chocolate
• 2 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
• 6 tablespoons creme de cassis
• 1/4 cup dark chocolate
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar

Recipe

• 1 bring the cream and sugar to a boil.
• 2 remove from heat and pour over the chocolate, which has been broken up into small chunks and placed in a clean bowl.
• 3 stir gently adding the room temperature butter.
• 4 continue to stir until all the chocolate has dissolved.
• 5 as the mixture cools, it will begin to thicken.
• 6 next, add the cassis and continue to stir for another 2 to 3 minutes.
• 7 cover with a kitchen towel and place in a cool area but do not refrigerate.
• 8 it is best to leave it overnight for it to cool thoroughly and start to firm up.
• 9 take your chocolate truffle mix, which should be firm, yet, soft to the touch.
• 10 place it into a piping bag that has a quarter inch nozzle attached.
• 11 if you don't have a piping bag, just drop teaspoonsful of the mixture.
• 12 on a clean tray with parchment paper, pipe out long sausage length strips of the chocolate truffle.
• 13 when all has been piped out, take a small kitchen knife with the tip dipped in hot water then cut the chocolate truffles into 1 1/4 inch lengths.
• 14 using a clean pastry brush, brush 5 or 6 chocolate truffles at a time with a little of the melted chocolate.
• 15 one by one, roll them gently in the palms of your hand and then drop them into either the cocoa powder or the powdered sugar.
• 16 roll them around and remove any excess sugar or cocoa.
• 17 place in a storage container or serving dish.
• 18 it is best to store these truffles in a cool part of the house but do not refrigerate.