Rich Chocolate Truffles

"I made these one year and gave them as Christmas gifts. They were the most popular presents I ever gave! I can't remember yield and times exactly now so they are a guess with cook time being chill time."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 45mins
Ingredients:
9
Serves:
24
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ingredients

  • 1 23 cups whipping cream
  • 12 cup real butter (no substitute)
  • 8 ounces semisweet baking chocolate, chopped
  • 1 13 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips, chopped
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract or 1 tablespoon liqueur
  • Coating

  • 12 -18 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips or 12 -18 ounces milk chocolate chips
  • 2 -3 tablespoons shortening
  • 14 cup powdered sugar
  • 14 teaspoon milk
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directions

  • In saucepan, combine whipping cream & butter.
  • Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, just until mixture boils; remove from heat. Stir in chocolates until melted; continue stirring until mixture cools & thickens slightly.
  • Stir in vanilla.
  • Pour into shallow glass dish.
  • Cover; chill until firm.
  • With spoon scoop mixture into 1 inch balls.
  • Coating Melt chocolate & shortening over low heat; stirring constantly.
  • (use 1 Tbsp of shortening for every 6 oz. of chocolate).
  • When mixture is smooth remove from heat. Dip each truffle into coating.
  • (I found dr opping them in the chocolate & then fishing them out with a spoon worked best. But work quickly or they will melt) Then either place them on foil or in foil candy papers & allow to harden.
  • Mix powdered sugar & milk.
  • Drizzle over truffles in various designs.

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Reviews

  1. I was concerned at first - with so much butter in this recipe, it made the balls very difficult to coat. However, I improvised with a thick coat of the suggested white icing over the mess of chocolate. Since I added peppermint instead of vanilla, I decided to sprinkle peppermint flakes (from dicing up candy canes) on top. Recipients were thrilled. they told me that these were better than store bought! I've received so many e-mails and thanks for my hard work. These are worth the trouble.
     
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  1. I was concerned at first - with so much butter in this recipe, it made the balls very difficult to coat. However, I improvised with a thick coat of the suggested white icing over the mess of chocolate. Since I added peppermint instead of vanilla, I decided to sprinkle peppermint flakes (from dicing up candy canes) on top. Recipients were thrilled. they told me that these were better than store bought! I've received so many e-mails and thanks for my hard work. These are worth the trouble.
     

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