Chocolate Lips and Hearts

Name: Chocolate Lips and Hearts
Ingredients: 300 g/11 oz/1½ cups caster (superfine) sugar; 50 ml/2 fl oz/¼ cup water; 1 vanilla pod (bean), split and seeds scraped; 1 vanilla pod (bean), split and seeds scraped; 175 ml/6 fl oz/¾ cup double (heavy) cream; 45 ml/3 tbsp golden (light corn) syrup; 90 g/3½ oz/7 tbsp unsalted butter, softened; a pinch of salt; edible gold leaf (optional); white chocolate, tempered, for drizzling (optional); 500 g/1¼ lb dark (bittersweet) chocolate (at least 64% cocoa solids), tempered; 500 g/1¼ lb dark (bittersweet) chocolate (at least 64% cocoa solids), tempered

Preparation info

Makes about
25

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Home-made Sweets & Candies

By Claire Ptak

Published 2022

About

Lips and hearts are appropriate shapes for these rich, intense chocolates, which are perfect for a romantic dinner or Valentine’s gift. They are quite fiddly to make but the results are impressive – the trick is to make the chocolate shell just thick enough to contain the runny caramel, as a too-thick shell ruins the delicacy of the truffle.

Ingredients

Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegetarian
Valentine’s Day

Method

Energy 83kcal/349kJ; Protein 0.2g; Carbohydrate 13.8g, of which sugars 13.8g; Fat 3.8g, of which saturates 2.1g; Cholesterol 9mg; Calcium 10mg; Fibre 0g; Sodium 7mg