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Festive Recipe; rum truffles
2 Dec 2013 09:15 pmA request from D-d for 'the rum truffle recipe' made me wonder if anyone else might like it, too.
These are rich, boozy, and somewhere between a cake and a chocolate. We tend to make them about an inch in diameter and give them to friends as sweets, but bigger ones could be used as part of an afternoon tea.
Rum Truffles
4oz plain chocolate
2oz butter
2 good tablespoons rum
2 egg yolks
2 oz cake crumbs
8 oz icing sugar
choc strands or drinking chocolate* to coat.
Melt chocolate and butter, add rum and egg yolks and mix well. Work in the cake crumbs and icing sugar.
Chill. (Both you and the mixture...)
Shape into balls and roll in either sugar strands or drinking chocolate.
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*Does drinking chocolate powder exist outside the UK? If not you'll have to go for the chocolate vermicelli option!
I was taught to roll them in chocolate sugar strands/chocolate vermicelli - but if you roll them in drinking chocolate powder it makes them rather twinkly because of its sugar content. But not instant hot chocolate, with the built in milk powder - that doesn't work very well. We know. Take our word for it.
These are rich, boozy, and somewhere between a cake and a chocolate. We tend to make them about an inch in diameter and give them to friends as sweets, but bigger ones could be used as part of an afternoon tea.
Rum Truffles
4oz plain chocolate
2oz butter
2 good tablespoons rum
2 egg yolks
2 oz cake crumbs
8 oz icing sugar
choc strands or drinking chocolate* to coat.
Melt chocolate and butter, add rum and egg yolks and mix well. Work in the cake crumbs and icing sugar.
Chill. (Both you and the mixture...)
Shape into balls and roll in either sugar strands or drinking chocolate.
........................
*Does drinking chocolate powder exist outside the UK? If not you'll have to go for the chocolate vermicelli option!
I was taught to roll them in chocolate sugar strands/chocolate vermicelli - but if you roll them in drinking chocolate powder it makes them rather twinkly because of its sugar content. But not instant hot chocolate, with the built in milk powder - that doesn't work very well. We know. Take our word for it.
