Chocolate Truffles

Show: Barefoot ContessaEpisode: Chocolate Memories

Rated: 4 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (53)

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
Chloe Terre Haute, IN 12-19-2009
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yummy, but.....
Rated: 3 stars out of 5

first of all the chocolate never hardened so i had to put it in the refrigerator for an HOUR and then when i tried rolling... them into balls they practically melted. They tasted very good but did not seem very easy to make and was way too much more work than it should have been. it was easy until the hardening part.Read more
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Alex Richmond, VA 11-22-2009
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Awesome
Rated: 4 stars out of 5

These truffles are worth making. However, they were a little tricky to form. I made the ganache with half a tablespoon less... of grand marnier because as i am only 15, I was scared it would be too strong for me. But no fear, next time I will use the full two tablespoons. I then let it sit for one hour at room temperature but it was way too liquidy. I was busy baking other things so it eventually got left on the counter for about three hours and it still wasn't solid enough. After awhile i got bored and put it in the freezer for about twenty minutes. That solved the problem. I took it out and use just one teaspoon, which i dipped into a pot of boiling water beside me. That made the truffles come out of the measuring spoon easy enough, and after i shaped them all, i popped them back in the freezer, which made them solid enough to roll in the toppings. For the toppings I used cocoa powder, and grounds almonds which i put in the food processor. I felt a little guilty because i used Hershey's cocoa powder but they turned out great. Warning, after awhile the cocoa powder dissolves because of the moistness of the chocolate so you may want to re-roll them again if you make them in advance. Read more
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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