Dense Earl Grey Flavored Chocolate Truffles
- 200 grams Dark chocolate
- 100 grams Heavy cream (35% butterfat)
- 2 tsp Earl Grey tea leaves
- 2 tsp Mizuame syrup or honey
- 20 grams Unsalted butter
- 1 Pure cocoa powder
- Finely chop up the chocolate and add it to a bowl.
- If you choose to melt the chocolate in the microwave beforehand, you can just break it into blocks instead.
- Place the cream, mizuame and tea leaves into a saucepan and heat it up until the mixture is just about to come to a boil.
- Take care to turn off the heat before it boils, however.
- Strain the mixture from Step 2 into the bowl from Step 1 and use a rubber spatula to melt the chocolate into the cream mixture.
- Lastly, mix in the butter.
- Pour the mixture from Step 3 into a tray lined with baking paper or cling film and leave the mixture to chill and set in the refrigerator.
- Once chilled, take the truffles out, cut into your desired size, and dust with cocoa powder.
- If you warm up your knife before cutting, the cut will be neater.
- If the truffles are too soft to cut properly then cut them after chilling them in the freezer.
- Please keep an eye on the chocolate if you are melting it in the microwave.
- The butter and mizuame is added to achieve a melt-in-the-mouth texture.
- If you want these truffles to come out the best that they can be, then I sincerely recommend adding both of these ingredients.
- Addendum: if you are using low-fat cream, please increase the amount a little or the truffles may come out too hard
- I changed the photo for this recipe (this photo shows some slightly thinner truffles).
- If you use the amounts listed above then you can make some thicker truffles.
- Please adjust the thickness of the truffles to your taste.
- I recommend these truffles as presents.
- You can use milk chocolate instead of dark chocolate if you'd prefer.
- A mix of dark and milk chocolate is also delicious.
chocolate, heavy cream, tea leaves, mizuame syrup, butter, cocoa
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/143356-dense-earl-grey-flavored-chocolate-truffles (may not work)