Orange Chocolates

Name: Orange Chocolates
Ingredients: juice and finely grated zest of ½ lemon; 100 g/4 oz plain chocolate; 25 g/1 oz granulated sugar; juice and finely grated zest of ½ orange; 225 g/8 oz white chocolate, broken into pieces; 50 ml/2 fl oz double cream; 25 g/1 oz unsalted butter, diced

Preparation info

Makes
30

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Carved Angel Cookery Book

By Joyce Molyneux

Published 1990

About

The lemon and orange zests give a real boost to white chocolate, making a fondant-like filling for dark chocolate colettes cases or truffles. Serious white chocolate enthusiasts can line cases or coat truffles with white chocolate, though I find this white on white just a little too cloying.

Ingredients

For the Coating

100 g/4 oz plain chocolate

Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

To make Orange Chocolate Colettes, break the ‘coating’ chocolate into squares and melt in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water, making sure that the base of the bowl does not touch the water. As soon as it has melted remove from the heat. Brush the chocolate as evenly as possible over the insides of 30 small petits fours cases, using about half the chocolate. Cool until firm and then give t