Plain Dark Chocolate Truffles

Name: Plain Dark Chocolate Truffles
Yield: Makes about 85
Ingredients: 1 kg/2.2 lb couverture chocolate for tempering (see under TEMPERING for method) or cocoa, icing sugar; nuts, ‘vermicelli’ etc for rolling; 300 ml/½ pint double or whipping cream; 225 g/8 oz BEST dark chocolate - evenly broken into tiny pieces, the size of buttons

Preparation info

Makes about
85

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Chocolate

By Sara Jayne Stanes

Published 1999

About

Plain merely indicates the natural, unflavoured element of these truffles - because there is nothing at all plain about them...

Ingredients

225 g/8 oz BEST dark chocolate - evenly broken into tiny pieces, the size of buttons
300 ml/

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Take a large, heavy chopping board or a baking tray and cover it tightly and completely with cling film or waxed paper (You may need to fix it with Sellotape underneath to make sure it is taut - if you don’t wrap the film tightly enough it lifts up when you try to remove the truffles, when they are set.) You can use the inside of a supermarket carrier bag too. Wash and dry it first.

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