Orange Chocolate Truffles

Name: Orange Chocolate Truffles
Yield: Makes about 20
Ingredients: 8 oz (250 g) plain chocolate; 3 oz (75 g) unsalted butter, at room temperature; 2 tablespoons (2 x 15 ml spoons) double cream; 2 oz (50 g) ground almonds; finely grated rind of 1 orange; 1 tablespoon (15 ml spoon) drinking chocolate powder; 1 teaspoon (5 ml spoon) cinnamon

Preparation info

Makes about
20

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Cooking for Christmas

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1978

About

Soft, fresh truffles, made at home with fresh cream and butter, must be the most luxurious and pleasurable of sweets. They are the finishing touch at any special occasion and would make an ideal Christmas present, too. A delicious variation on the orange flavour is to add peppermint essence to the mixture instead of orange rind.

Ingredients

8 oz (250 g) plain chocolate
3 oz (75

Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free
December
Christmas

Method

Break up the chocolate and put it in a bowl set over a pan half-full of very hot water, over a gentle heat; the water should not boil. Melt the chocolate and then add the butter, a little at a time, and then stir in the cream. Stir until melted and smooth and then remove from the heat and stir in the