My Truffles

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups heavy cream
• 7 tablespoons butter
• 16 ounces dark chocolate chips (better quality, better results)

Recipe

• 1 in the top of a double boil pot heat cream just to boiling.
• 2 place pot on top of pot of hot water. add chocolate. blend until smooth.
• 3 add butter and blend until incorporated well.
• 4 line a pan with plastic or use silicone pan. pour chocolate into that pan and refrigerate until firm enough to handle -- about 3 hours.
• 5 invert on a cutting board. remove plastic if used. cut into equal pieces to quantity for this recipe.
• 6 roll into balls (ovals if eggs for easter) and then roll in chosen coating.
• 7 coating can be:.
• 8 cocoa, pretty sugar, nuts, chopped fruit, coconut, etc. (never powdered sugar as it will "melt" and be ugly).
• 9 if amaretto or gran marnier added 1/4 cup and reduce equal amount of cream. freeze these prior to rolling.