Chocolate Truffles

Show: Barefoot ContessaEpisode: Chocolate Memories

Rated: 4 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (52)

RECIPE
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Cook Time:
3 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
60 truffles

Times:

Prep: 30 min
Inactive Prep: 1 hr 0 min
Cook: 3 min
Total:: 1 hr 33 min

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Ingredients

1/2 pound good bittersweet chocolate (recommended: Lindt)
1/2 pound good semisweet chocolate (recommended: Ghiradelli)
1 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons orange flavored liqueur, optional (recommended: Grand Marnier)
1 tablespoon prepared coffee
1/2 teaspoon good vanilla extract
Confectioners’ sugar
Cocoa powder

Directions

Chop the chocolates finely with a sharp knife. Place them in a heat-proof mixing bowl.

Heat the cream in a small saucepan until it just boils. Turn off the heat and allow the cream to sit for 20 seconds. Pour the cream through a fine-meshed sieve into the bowl with chocolate. With a wire whisk, slowly stir the cream and chocolates together until the chocolate is completely melted. Whisk in the orange flavored liqueur, if using, coffee, and vanilla. Set aside at room temperature for 1 hour.

With 2 teaspoons, spoon round balls of the chocolate mixture onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Roll each ball of chocolate in your hands to roughly make it round. Roll in confectioners’ sugar, cocoa powder, or both. These will keep refrigerated for weeks, but serve them at room temperature.

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recipe Chocolate Truffles
Mandy Gulfport, MS 10-26-2009
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Good Truffle, but...
Rated: 3 stars out of 5

These are good, but are too soft, even after hours in the fridge. They either need less cream or more chocolate. I added more... chocolate so that they would firm up and I could roll them. I also substituted 2 T orange juice & 1/2 t. orange extract for the Grand Marnier, and they tasted great!Read more
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Lisa Independence, IA 06-14-2009
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Excellent and Yummy!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I followed the recipe exactly in Ina's cookbook, and it doesn't get any easier than this! Simple, delicious and looks and... tastes like you worked much harder than you did!!Read more
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Mayer Mexico City, FL 04-03-2009
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THEY TURN GREAT!!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I MUST BE HONEST, WHILE REFRIGERATING FOR AN HOUR,I WAS READING THE AWFULL REVIEWS AND DIDN'T EXPECT ANY MIRACLES BUT THEY... WERE PERFECTLY FIRM AND DELICIOUS!! I USED KALUAH COFFEE LIQUOR AND WERE DELICIOUS, I DON'T GET IT WHY SO MANY PEOPLE FAILED IN THIS RECIPE MAYBE THE WISKING HAS TO BE PROPERLY. I READ SOME REVIEWS THAT IN THE SHOW, INA SAYS 1/4 CUP OF CREAM , BUT THIS AMOUNT IS ALMOST EQUAL TO TWO TABLESPOON , TRY TO MEASURE AND YOU WILL SEE. THANKS INA!!!!!Read more
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null null, null 03-29-2009
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DEAD ZONE
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

I TRIED THIS SO CALLED EASY RECIPE FOR TRUFFLES, WELL, BEING A 1ST TIMER AT THIS... IT TASTES VERY GOOD BUT NEVER GOT... THICK ENOUGH TO FORM THE BALLS. GOT OUT ANOTHER RECIPE, (ALTON) FROM THE FOOD NETWORK; USED THAT; AND IT WAS A MIRACLE EVERYTHING WAS PERFECT. LATER TO MY AMAZEMENT, IT SHOULD OF BEEN PUT IN RECIPE TO REFEGERATE THIS FOR HOUR!!!!!!!!!!!!! WILL NEVER MAKE THIS RECIPE EVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VERY DISAPOINTED IN WASHINGTONRead more
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Heidi Old Hickory, TN 03-04-2009
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Easy and fabulous
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This was one of the easiest truffle recipes I could find (and was directed here by a fellow reviewer who was overwhelmed by... Alton Brown's fussy recipe). I made these for my husband for Valentine's day, using Ghiradelli's Espresso Escape bars as my bittersweet chocolate and Hershey's Dark Reserve 65% cacao with cacao nibs for my semisweet chocolate (I love the texture that those nibs add). I refrigerated the melted chocolate for about 2 hours before shaping, which was probably almost too long as it was quite hard by that point. I used a small cookie scooper to form the truffles which made them a little oversized (and only yielded about 35 truffles) but made the shaping much easier and less messy. My husband loves toffee, so I actually altered these by adding toasted finely chopped pecans to the chocolate and rolling them in crushed Heath bar. These are just so indulgent and delicious, it is like a spa vacation for your taste buds. They were gone in no time, so for our waistlines I'd better not make them too often but will definitely make them again!Read more
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Karen Virginia Beach, VA 02-13-2009
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Recipe on Foodnetwork Site Wrong; in her cookbook it's right
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

For all those that complained about being drippy, runny, or did not set up, that is because the recipe on the website is... incorrect when it gave instructions to "set aside at room temprature for 1 hour". In Garten's cookbook, Barefoot in Paris, the proper instruction is "Cover and chill for 45 minutes to an hour until piable but firm enough to scoop." I've found you should always check the original recipe as many on this site deviate from the actual recipe. If you make according to her recipe they work just fine and are fanastic.Read more