[rec.food.recipes] OVO-LACTO: Truffles

ST402676@brownvm.brown.edu (tamar more) (11/11/90)

These are very easy truffles that were a big hit at the famous sibling
wedding. The bit about liquid nitrogen was an inevitable consequence of
having 4 physicists in the wedding party (bride, groom, brother, and
sister).


Rum Truffles

1/4 Cup whipping cream
2 tbsp butter
6oz chocolate
1/4 tsp vanilla
loads o' rum (3tbsp?)
I might have put some egg yolks in too, maybe 3 of them.


Coffee Truffles

2 tbsp whipping cream
1 tbsp Tia Maria
1/4 tsp vanilla
1 yolk
6 oz white chocolate
2 tsp instant coffee

to prepare:

simmer the cream (also butter in the dark chocolate ones). If you put
butter in the white ones, they will be very soft even if frozen in your
freezer for a long time, but if you freeze them very solid (as in
liquid nitrogen) and dip them in melted dark chocolate, they might work
even with butter.  Butterless, they are pose no problem. Reduce heat to
low and stir in the vanilla and yolk(s). Add the chocolate and stir
till smooth. stir in the liquer and coffee (or rum).Freeze till firm
and form into balls. Roll the truffles in a 1:1 mixture of cocoa and
sugar. Freeze up to 1 month.