Chocolate Raspberry Truffles With Fresh Raspberries
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Yields:
-
60 1-inch truffles
- Serves:
- 60
ingredients
- 1 cup fresh raspberry (about 1/2 cup raspberry puree)
- 1 lb semisweet chocolate or 1 lb bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
- 1 1⁄2 cups heavy cream
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsweetened Dutch-processed cocoa powder
directions
- Pass the berries through a food mill fitted with a fine disk or force them through a through a fine sieve, mashing with a wooden spoon, into a medium bowl. You'll have about 1/2 cup raspberry puree; set it aside and discard the contents of the strainer.
- Put the chopped chocolate in a medium bowl.
- In a small saucepan, heat the cream, just until boiling.
- Pour the hot cream over the chopped chocolate; whisk to blend.
- Stir in the raspberry puree and the salt.
- Refrigerate the mixture until completely chilled, about 1 hour.
- Pour the cocoa powder onto a plate.
- With a melon-baller or spoon, scoop the chocolate-raspberry mixture and shape it into 1-inch balls.
- If the truffles are very soft, put them on a baking sheet and refrigerate briefly to firm.
- Roll the shaped truffles in the cocoa, coating them thoroughly.
- If sealed and refrigerated, these truffles will keep for about 1 week.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
KateL
Joppa, Maryland
I love to eat yummy healthy foods!