Kirsty’s Ginger Truffles

Name: Kirsty’s Ginger Truffles
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 300 g white chocolate, melted; 40 g finely chopped almonds; ¼ tsp almond essence; 100 g dried apricots, chopped; zest of ½ a lemon; 50 g soft brown sugar; 250 g gingernut biscuits; 100 g butter; 100 g condensed milk

Preparation info

Makes about
25
balls

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Gloagburn

By Alison Niven

Published 2025

About

Kirsty is my daughter-in-law’s mother, and she gives these truffles to us for Christmas every year. I absolutely love them, so she kindly gave me the recipe to include here.

Ingredients

100 g butter
100 g condensed milk
50 g

United Kingdom
Scottish
Dessert
Vegetarian
Christmas
Scotland

Method

Put the butter in a pot with the condensed milk and sugar and put it over a medium heat, stirring as the butter melts.
In a food processor, crush the biscuits to fine crumbs.
Once the butter mixture comes to the boil, take it off the heat and add the crushed biscuits, apricots, lemon zest, almonds and almond essence.
Weigh the mixture into 3

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