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[Magentasue]

Having made Mado's fab vanilla fudge, I'd like to try chocolate truffles for Christmas. Anyone got a tried and trusted recipe they'd like to share?

[saraht]

Try this:

300g plain chocolate (75%+ cocoa)
125g unsalted butter
200g icing sugar
4 tablespoons double cream
a dash of rum or brandy

1.Melt the chocolate
2.Add butter and cream
3.Add sugar
4.Add spirit

Roll into balls and chill for 1-2 hours .

Taste yummy, but very fattening!

[kiwichick]

Or this..................

50gm butter
100gm cooking chocolate
1 cup icing sugar, approxiamtely
1 tbsp rum
1 tsp cocoa
coconut

Put butter and choc into a saucepan. Heat gently, stirring until butter and choc have melted. Add 1/2 cup of the icing sugar. Stir until mixture is thick enough to handle. Stir in rum and cocoa. Add enough of the remaining icing sugar to make a stiff mixture. Measure tablespoonsful of the mix and shape into balls. Roll into coconut.Chill until firm. Makes about 15.

[sallypurple]

The hot chocolate thread was bad eough, then I got sucked into the fudge thread, now this - its not fair, I'm supposed to be on a diet

[tootles]

When I was at college we used chocolate ganache for truffles and piped it into paper cases....... they need keeping in the fridge...... you need to use a chocolate with a high cocoa content, the higher the better.

I cannot remember the quantities but double cream and chocolate melted in a double boiler......butter stirred in and then put in a food mixer and whisk until the mxture thickens, then leave to get cold, either pipe into the cases or use two teaspoons to shape the ganache into egg shaped pieces, you can roll it in cocoa powder, but they need keeping in the fridge, you can stir in brandy, rum or whisky into the base mixture before you whip the mixture in the mixer. I have also made them with grand marnier.....

[bektoria]

Please could someone let me know how far in advance I could make these and the fudge for Christmas presents ? Although if my husband and children found them, they would not last a week !!!

Thanks,
Bek

[happiness fairy]

I usually make mine about three or four days before (20th) so I can hand them out on Xmas eve, that way the receipients don't have to scoff the lot straight away! I did this last year for a few v good friends (usually I did it for family) and have already had requests for this year.

[VickyA]

These recipes sound gorgeous. I doubt they'd get past day one though!

[Savvy_Sue]

OK, which one tastes best, kiwi's or sarah's?

[Mado]

Magentasue...
Flattery will get you everywhere!!!!
I haven't made these in donkey's year. Good excuse for a try.

Chocolate and almond truffles.

125g good quality dark chocolate
125g icing sugar
125g butter
1 egg yolk
60g almond meal
60g garted chocolate.

Melt the chocolate and add room temp butter. Work with a wooden spoon to get a smooth texture.
Add the egg yolk, then sugar and almond meal.
Work again until smooth.
Let it firm up in the fridge.
Roll into balls and finish in the grated chocolate.

You can now wash your choccy moustaches!

[Curry Queen]

1/4 cup Bailey's Irish Cream
1 tbsp butter
12oz semisweet chocolate pieces
2 egg yolks
1/4 cup cream


Melt chocolate pieces, Bailey's and cream together over

very low heat. Whisk in yolks, one at a time, mixture will

thicken. Whisk in butter. Refrigerate several hours, or

overnight until firm. Make small balls with a teaspoon.

Roll in powdered sugar or cocoa.

[bigburd]

I wonder if any of you creative people can give me the recipe for chocolate truffles with bashed-up digestive biscuits as one of the main ingredients - I tried googling it with no success!! My son wants to make them (and I'd like to eat them, lol!!) As you see I don't post very often so I'd like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas when it comes!!

[Swan]

hope this is what you're looking for

10 digestives, crushed
5 Tablespoons dessicated coconut or ground almonds
1/2 Tablespoon cocoa powder (not drinking chocolate)
small tin condensed milk
2oz melted butter
chocolate vermicelli for coating

mix dry ingredients (except vermicelli)

add milk, then butter, mix well

form into balls & roll in vermicelli

[bigburd]

Thanks Swan - you're a star.

[squeaky]

Good morning

For those of you new to Old Style I'm posting links to the fudge thread and the hot chocolate thread (mentioned earlier) just below here, and, if you'd like more ideas on Christmas, a mix of threads about cards, presents, food, booze and all things Christmassy are collected at the top of the Old Style forum listing in a CHRISTMAS sticky.



fudge
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/....html?t=114060

chocolate
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...d.html?t=99878

[rchddap1]

Might make some myself on my time off just before Xmas. Might be nice to hand them round.

[chrisico]

This recipe came from my local newspaper many years ago and I have used it most Christmases since then,

4 trifle sponge fingers or 4oz left over cake
2 oz plain or milk chocolate
1 tsp jam (apricot is best)
orange juice or spirit as required
chocolate vermicelli or cocoa powder to finish

grate or liquidise cake and add to melted chocolate. Add jam and enough juice to make a fairly stiff paste. Roll into small balls and coat in vermicelli or cocoa .

My children loved to make a box of these each year for Grandma.

[AussieLass]

I'm going to make Curry Queen's recipe this weekend. Have some Bailey's floating around the fridge that needs to be used. Could anyone tell me if powdered sugar is icing sugar? Or do you just put some sugar in the FP and give it a whirl to make it finer? They sound lovely.

[Poppycat]

Nice free plug andy. Two posts with the same content, are you trying to advertise by chance?

[frugglewump]

One year we made truffles and replaced the double cream with clotted cream because that's all there was at the corner shop. They tasted absolutely delicious but did sit in the stomach like mini-cannonballs