Chocolate, Chilli and Rum Truffles

Name: Chocolate, Chilli and Rum Truffles
Yield: Makes about 30
Cuisine: Cuba
Ingredients: 3 tbsp cocoa powder; 75 g (2¾ oz) butter, softened; 100 g (3½ oz) chilli chocolate; 3 tsp rum; 80 ml (2½ fl oz) (double) cream; 150 g (5½ oz) chilli chocolate

Preparation info

Makes about
30

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food for Friends

By Levi Roots

Published 2010

About

Wow...this is a pure chocolate hit! Chilli and chocolate is a great combination and chocolate makers large and small now make chilli-spiked chocolate bars. What you want in these smooth, rich truffles, based on a recipe by the chef Shaun Hill, is a really strong chocolate taste followed by a beautiful chilli buzz.

Ingredients

150 g (5½ oz) chilli chocolate
80 ml (2½

Americas
Cuba
Dessert
Caribbean
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Melt the chocolate in a bowl suspended over a pan of simmering water (make sure the base of the bowl doesn’t touch the water). Meanwhile, heat the cream in a saucepan until it’s just boiling. Cool slightly, then pour into the melted chocolate and stir together. Whisk the butter until it becomes light and fluffy, then whisk in the chocolate cream followed by the rum. Leav