Valentine's Day Truffles (with only 3 ingredients)
- 1 six 60 grams bars Chocolate bars
- 200 ml Heavy cream
- 1 Pure cocoa powder
- 1 Parchment paper
- Line a shallow baking dish with parchment paper.
- Break the chocolate into bite-sized bits and add it and the cream into a bowl.
- Heat this bowl over a double boiler.
- Bring the pan of water to a boil and then turn the heat to low to reserve the heat while melting the bowl of chocolate over it.
- (You could also turn off the heat and use the residual heat to melt the chocolate.
- When the chocolate is smooth and creamy remove the bowl from the double boiler and thoroughly wipe away any water clinging to the sides of the bowl with a towel.
- (if you are going to add alcohol, do so at this point.
- For example, I added 1 tablespoon of rum.)
- Pour the chocolate into the parchment paper lined pan.
- Tap the pan a few times on the counter to even out the chocolate.
- Chill the chocolate thoroughly in the freezer.
- When the chocolate is chilled, peel away the paper and remove it, leaving the reverse side up.
- Use a heart shaped cookie cutter to cleanly shape the hardened chocolate.
- Use a fine strainer to sift the cocoa powder over the shapes, and you are done.
- Speed is of the essence!
- The truffles will become soft at room temperature, so hurry.
- Cut the shapes very close together so that nothing goes to waste.
- This is an important point.
- If the chocolate becomes too soft and you can't remove the shapes, chill the chocolate until it hardens again.
- Omit this step if it is troublesome.
- You can make ganache truffles by reheating the chocolate leftover after cutting.
- Reheat it over the double boiler.
- Pour the melted chocolate into cookie cups (about 6) and top with your choice of decoration.
- Finished!
- This will yield about 500 g. Give one big heart to your sweetheart, or make lots of mini hearts and send out lots of love.
- Wrap the chocolate in packaging from the 100 yen store.
- Preserve the truffles by keeping them in the refrigerator or freezer.
- Hand over the present outdoors where it's nice and cold, so it doesn't melt.
- Make a small batch of "Easy Handmade Truffles for Valentine's Day".
chocolate bars, cocoa, paper
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/144428-valentines-day-truffles-with-only-3-ingredients (may not work)