Truffles for Friday
I made some truffles last night and had the chance to take some pictures of the process, like I did with the raspberry cups. I actually did this twice because I screwed up the first time and got water into the chocolate. I won’t go into details but even though it was indeed an extremely small amount, it totally ruined everything and I had to start over again. Anyway, here goes.
Following the recipe I did last night, I put 1 stick of unsalted butter, 2/3 cup of heavy whipping cream, and 6 tablespoons of sugar into small pan and heated it to it just started to boil.
You’ll want to do this slowly so you don’t burn it. Since there are going to be rolled and not dipped, I use a little less cream to keep them firmer. In the mean time, I put 2 bags of semi-sweet chips in a large mixing bowl. If you’ve kept them someplace cold, you’ll want to make sure they are at room temp (or even a little warmer) before doing this so that they melt well.
When the cream mixture started to boil, I poured it over the chips in the bowl and let it stand for 1 minute while the chocolate melted.
In the mean time I filled another bowl with ice and some water. Then I added 3 tablespoons of vanilla extra to the chocolate bowl and mixed with the blended until it was smooth.
Then I put my chocolate bowl inside the ice bowl to start cooling it.
Then I mixed and mixed and mixed, until it began to thicken.
Eventually it became thick enough that it could stand up on its own. Don’t want to get it too thick, or else its hard to dispense.
Then I filled my pastry applicator and used my specially modified tip to dispense out blobs of chocolate for the truffles onto wax paper in the pans.
Yes, I am very aware of what the blobs look like, because I have a 7-year-old son. :D
Anyway, once they were dispensed, I put them in the fridge for about 10 minutes, while I cleaned up the giant mess I had made. Then when they were kinda hardened up I rolled them by hand into balls and then rolled them in grated chocolate, that I made from a Ghiradelli semi-sweet bar using a potato peeler.
Here they are all done!
May 20th, 2005 09:18
Wow Jon that looks like something I’ll have to run hard to earn this afternoon. :) Enjoy your Friday.
May 20th, 2005 09:26
Yay! It’s Chocolate Friday! I should take the day off, maybe start a Chocolate Parade, or something. Those truffles look YUMMY.
May 20th, 2005 10:12
and those are the prize for meeting the most RBF’ers? dangit…i’ve got to get traveling (and hire a hitman to take out dianna)
they look deliscious, jon. thanks for doin’ the chocolate friday again!
May 20th, 2005 10:43
hmm, you’re not the same guy on Food Network making truffles last night are you? I know you don’t own a tv but you never said anything about not being on tv.
May 20th, 2005 10:47
Is everyone in your family each about 500 pounds? I definitely would be if I had someone to make me chocolate!!!! (my apologies if they are 500 pounds. foot in mouth).
May 20th, 2005 11:13
It’s not fair, Jon. Really. My mouth is watering…and it’s not even lunch time. MY GOSH…those look absolutely wonderful. Of course, the bowls of chocolate themselves look wonderful, too.
May 20th, 2005 11:38
Nice to see that you are practicing for when you’ll be making me mine…and…I’d like to point out that there’s a good chance that I’ll get to meet Jeff which means we will STILL be even…so I’ll see your Pam and raise you a Jeff.
And if I should suffer some ‘accident’ while visiting with Jeff, the authorities have already been alerted to this post.
May 20th, 2005 14:48
YUMMY
May 20th, 2005 20:35
Now we know why you run so much….man those look yummy. I’m drooling already. Good thing no one served those anywhere near me last week…lol.
May 20th, 2005 23:44
Oh I really really love the new look blog. I have never had truffles before (I havn’t really lived yet!) Who cares what they look like (had a little chuckle imagining your 7 year olds comments though) they sound delicious
May 21st, 2005 07:00
I must echo with Dawn - now I know why you love running so much - seruously, one of my biggest motivators to run is the fact that I enojoy food more when I’m hungry in an outdoorsy, red-cheecked way :) Have you ever considered opening up a chocolatier, since your lovely missus can’t eat the choccies you could maybe share them with people who appreciate the work of a true artist :) Have an awesome weekend!!
May 21st, 2005 07:21
I love the new look of the website! Looks great…
Oh, and how did those truffles taste? They look AMAZING…
May 21st, 2005 09:28
Oh, I love the new look of your blog! Very clean. I’ve been meaning to change mine - now I have inspiration. And your truffles. Wow. I’m thinking of making some as guest favors for the party we’re throwing this October to celebrate our nuptials. These raspberry ones sound great.
May 21st, 2005 14:48
I was thinking about going to the store to get some chocolate; now after seeing your post, I will be going soon!
May 21st, 2005 16:15
Must-eat-healthy. Must-eat-healthy. Oh man! I want some chocolate now! Those look wonderful!
May 24th, 2005 15:50
I *love* to make truffles. Unfortunately, I love to *eat* truffles as well. :)