When the question arises of what would be tasty to feed the household, the housewives spend more time searching for an interesting recipe than preparing the dish itself. For those who have run out of fresh ideas, we suggest making delicious “truffle” sweets that will appeal to all lovers of sweets.

To make such a French dessert, you will need three main ingredients: chocolate, butter and cream. And for the filling, you can choose a wide variety of products that are at home at hand. Suitable nuts, dried fruits, various berries, as well as coffee, cognac or sweet liquor.

Classic recipe

Truffle sweets are incredibly popular in France. Housewives cook them on the eve of most holidays, while the classic recipe does not require a large number of ingredients and is particularly easy to prepare. All that is needed for successful cooking is a few bars of professional dark chocolate (usually it’s chocolate with a cocoa share of 70%).

You will need:

  • chocolate - 500 g;
  • fat cream - 250 g;
  • butter - 1 tbsp.

Getting to the dessert:

  1. At the initial stage, it is necessary to melt the chocolate. To do this, we heat a water bath or use a conventional microwave. The main condition is to constantly stir the mass and prevent its overheating. The temperature of the chocolate should be approximately 45-50 ° C.

For a more accurate determination of the degree of heating, a small amount of the mixture should be applied to the wrist. Heated to the right temperature, the mass will not burn the skin, while you feel noticeable heat.

  1. Next, heat the cream to 70 ° C, after which we add them to the melted chocolate. The resulting mixture is thoroughly stirred until a homogeneous consistency.Manually connecting the two components is extremely difficult, so we recommend using a blender or mixer. As a result, you should get a uniform dense consistency that resembles jelly.
  2. At the final stage, add soft butter. The amount of this ingredient depends on your taste preferences. If you wish, you can not use oil at all in the process of making truffle sweets. The finished consistency is put in the refrigerator for 12-18 hours, after which they take out the chilled ganache and form small balls from it. Formed sweets are dipped in melted chocolate mass, and cocoa is sprinkled on top.

A simple version of milk powder

Ingredients:

  • 300 g of milk powder;
  • 100 g butter;
  • 3 tbsp Sahara;
  • 2 tablespoons water;
  • 2 tbsp cocoa.

Cooking consists of the following steps:

  1. We add cocoa and sugar to the container with water, bring the mixture to a boil and cook until the sugar is completely dissolved.
  2. Next, slowly introduce the oil and mix the ingredients until a homogeneous consistency.
  3. We leave the cocoa butter mixture in the refrigerator until it is completely cooled, after which we add milk powder to it. The result should be a thick chocolate mass, which is again cooled in the refrigerator.
  4. From the frozen glaze, we make the balls of the right size and, if desired, roll the finished truffles in coconut or cocoa.

How to Make Caramel Truffles at Home

Caramel truffles have a rather dense chocolate shell on the outside, but inside the delicacy turns out to be very soft and viscous. A homemade recipe for sweets involves the use of milk chocolate, but if you are a supporter of dark varieties, you can add classic dark chocolate instead of milk.

You will need:

  • milk chocolate - 2 tiles;
  • sugar - 1/2 cup;
  • butter - 20 g;
  • fat cream - 1/3 cup;
  • water - tablespoon

Cooking:

  1. Pour sugar into the stewpan with water, mix the ingredients and cook the mixture on low heat until it acquires a light amber hue.
  2. Bring the cream to a boil, remove from heat, add the butter and mix the ingredients thoroughly until smooth.
  3. Combine the finished mixture with caramel, and then add the finely ground chocolate. The mixed mass is removed in the refrigerator for 2 hours, after which we make small balls out of it. Formed sweets we wrap in cling film and cool for one hour.

Do it yourself with brandy

Ingredients:

  • cocoa powder - 50 g;
  • fat cream (33%) - 100 g;
  • sugar -6 tablespoons;
  • nuts - 100 g;
  • cognac - 30 g.

Cooking process:

  1. Put cocoa, cream, sugar and cognac in the stewpan, mix the ingredients thoroughly and bring the mixture to a boil.
  2. Turn off the heat and add pre-chopped nuts to the icing. We remove the finished mass in the refrigerator until the morning.

In the event that during the night the chocolate ganache did not have time to harden sufficiently, the icing is left to cool for a few more days - so the cooked truffles will turn out to be much tastier.

  1. From the thickened mass we form balls, roll the candies in chopped nuts and serve the finished dish to the table.

Truffles candies from the Baby mix

Housewives often made sweets from babies in the early 90s, when store shelves were empty and it was impossible to find the necessary products from the meager assortment of those times.

Essential Ingredients:

  • baby formula - 1 pack;
  • butter - 100 g;
  • milk - ¾ cup;
  • granulated sugar - 200 g;
  • peanuts - 200 g;
  • cocoa - ½ cup.

We start cooking:

  1. Combine milk, sugar and butter, heat the mixture and add cocoa.
  2. Remove the resulting glaze from the fire, cool and carefully pour the baby food into the mass. Mix the ingredients until smooth. Cool the prepared pasta in the freezer for an hour.
  3. While the mixture is cooling, fry the peanuts in a heated pan, then remove the peel and finely chop the nuts.
  4. Roll the balls formed from the cocoa-milk mixture in nut chips and delight the household with an incredibly delicious dessert.

Dark chocolate cream dainty

In order to make truffle sweets at home, it is not necessary to possess any culinary skills or magical abilities. And if you involve your husband and children in the cooking process, then your whole family will not only fruitfully, but also have fun in your free time.

Ingredients:

  • dark chocolate (from 60%) - 1 bar;
  • cream (from 33%) - 100 gr.;
  • cashew nuts - 50 gr.;
  • cocoa - 3 tablespoons

Cooking:

  1. Remove the boiling cream from the heat, add the crushed chocolate and mix thoroughly until the ingredient is completely dissolved.
  2. We cover the finished ganache from above with cling film so that it fits snugly against the chocolate mass. We remove the capacity in the refrigerator for one hour.
  3. We take out the cooled mass from the refrigerator, leave it for 5 minutes, then beat the ganache with a mixer until an airy texture is formed. From the finished mass, we mold the balls of the desired size and roll them in finely chopped nuts.

White Chocolate Nutella Dessert

You will need:

  • 2 tiles of dark chocolate;
  • 1/3 cup fat cream;
  • 4 tbsp Nutella

To decorate:

  • 2 bars of white chocolate;
  • tbsp vegetable oil;
  • 50 g of crushed chocolate chips.

Cooking process:

  1. Using a water bath, warm the cream with chocolate and Nutella, then mix the mixture well.
  2. Remove the hot glaze from the heat, wait 10 minutes for it to cool, then cover the ganache with foil and put it in the refrigerator for 3 hours.
  3. From the chilled paste, mold small sweets and send them to the freezer for 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, melt the white chocolate, add the vegetable oil and mix the ingredients thoroughly. Use the prepared mixture for dipping chilled sweets. To do this, stick a toothpick into the ball, hold it with your fingers and carefully place the truffle in white chocolate. While the icing does not have time to harden, sprinkle the candies with crushed chocolate chips. It is recommended to store the finished dish in the refrigerator.

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