Simple Coffee-flavored Truffles
- 150 grams Dark chocolate
- 90 grams Heavy cream
- 2 tsp Instant coffee
- 2 tsp Rum
- 2 tsp Mizuame starch based sweet syrup (sugar syrup)
- 60 grams Bitter chocolate
- Break the chocolate apart.
- Melt it in a bowl over a 50C hot bath.
- Heat the heavy cream, mizuame, and instant coffee in a pot.
- Turn the heat off when it's just below boiling.
- Add the mixture from Step 2 into the bowl from Step 1.
- Fold in using a rubber spatula.
- Add rum and mix well.
- Lay a sheet of plastic wrap in a flat container, and pour in the mixture from Step 3.
- Chill in the fridge to harden.
- When the chocolate has hardened, chop it up into pieces and roll them into a ball.
- Chill them in the fridge for about 1 hour.
- Chop up the chocolate marked with a , and melt over a hot bath.
- Do not warm it too much, since it will melt the chocolate from Step 5 when coating.
- Put each chocolate ball (from Step 5) into the molten chocolate from Step 6.
- Roll them around, then place them onto a sheet of oven paper.
- Chill in the fridge to harden.
- To make a ganache-type truffles, coat the chopped chocolate from Step 5 with powdered cocoa..
- Step 2: You can also put the chocolate and heavy cream into a bowl and microwave them to melt.
- The chocolate for coating in Step 6 can be melted in the same way by microwaving.
- Step 7: If it's too difficult to shape, please trace it with a fork before it hardens completely.
- You can also use milk chocolate for the coating.
chocolate, heavy cream, coffee, mizuame starch, bitter
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/143328-simple-coffee-flavored-truffles (may not work)