Goat Cheese ChocolateTruffles
- Ready In:
- 2hrs
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
-
25 truffles
ingredients
- 6 ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate, chopped
- 6 ounces goat cheese (about 3/4 cup)
- 2 tablespoons confectioners' sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1⁄8 teaspoon lemon extract (optional)
- 1⁄4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted,for coating the truffles
directions
- Carefully melt chocolate in microwave, stir until smooth and set aside to cool a bit.
- Mix together goat cheese, confectioners' sugar, vanilla extract and lemon extract if using.
- Beat until light and fluffy.
- Add melted chocolate, combine well and chill, covered, for 1 hour or until firm.
- Form heaping teaspoons of the mixture into balls and roll the balls in the cocoa powder.
- Chill on wax paper lined baking sheet 30 minutes or until firm.
- Keep the truffles in an airtight container, chilled, for up to 3 days.
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sugarpea
Snohomish, WA
I’m a former interior designer and landscape designer. At the moment I get to enjoy being at home and working only when I want to. I like rollerblading, hiking, backpacking and trips to the ocean. I grew up on a farm in the Midwest and moved to the Northwest when I was thirty, over twenty years ago. I’m afraid they’ll have to bury me here in WA. This is God’s country and I’m never leaving.
I have a smallish collection of cookbooks, preferring to use the library and a copy machine. Among my favorites though, are: Recipes 1-2-3, by Rozanne Gold, a collection of recipes containing no more than 3 ingredients (excepting water, salt and pepper); A Treasury of Great Recipes, by Mary and Vincent Price, recipes collected from friends and chefs of great restaurants around the world; The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, about a collection of cuisines I’m convinced are the healthiest in the world and The Low-Calorie Gourmet, by Pierre Franey.
Currently my passions are our dogs, the garden, cooking, the natural world and of course, Dh. I can now add Zaar to that list of passions (translate: addiction). We have three dogs, two rescued and one adopted. They are Sugarpea, a Golden Retriever, Chickpea, a Llasa Apso and Sweetpea, a Shih Tzu; small, medium and large. We’re quite a sight out on the trail. One of the things I am most fond of about living here is the ability to vegetable garden year ‘round.