Chocolate truffles - a real French delicacy, and how to cook them at home, we will now gladly tell you.
Recipe for chocolate truffles
Ingredients:
- bitter chocolate - 150 g;
- fatty cream - 70 ml;
- powdered sugar - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- rum - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- vanilla essence - 1 teaspoon;
- cocoa powder - 3 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
Finely chop and melt on a water bath bitter chocolate . Cream poured into a bowl, pour the powdered sugar, mix, put on a weak fire and bring to a boil, but do not boil. Then pour the chocolate with hot cream and stir until a homogeneous cream called ganache is obtained. If you need it, you can add flavorings to your taste. Now cover the cream with a food foil and remove it for 40-60 minutes in the refrigerator. Ganache must completely freeze to the state of soft plasticine.
After that, we take a lot of the spoon and form small balls from it. When all the chocolate candies are ready, send them again for 20 minutes in the cold. This time, we sift to the cutting board of cocoa and roll in it our delicacy. That's it, candy chocolate truffles are ready! We store them in a sealed container in a cold dark place to prevent sweets from drying out.
Chocolate truffle cake recipe
Ingredients:
- cocoa powder - 30 g;
- wheat flour - 70 g;
- baking powder - 1 teaspoon;
- sugar -60 g;
- egg - 4 pcs.
For cream:
- black chocolate - 200 g;
- sour cream - 700 ml;
- sugar - 200 g.
Preparation
So, for the preparation of chocolate - truffle cake, mix in the bowl of cocoa with flour and baking powder. Whisk egg yolks with sugar until a strong foam. After that, we mix both mixtures and mix.
While the finished cake is cooling down, we will prepare a cream with you. To do this, melted black chocolate on a water bath. Sour cream separately beat up with sugar and carefully pour the chocolate. Then we take out the chocolate biscuit form, shift the cream, spread it and send it to the refrigerator for about 6 hours. Then take out the frozen cake and sprinkle it with cocoa powder.