Truffles
Just before Valentine's Day I made a giant batch of truffles. Yes, that was in February and it's now March. I know. But I promised to post about how I did it, so here's the post, a month late.
I doubled the Truffles recipe in Sherry Yard's The Secrets of Baking with a few modifications. I also used a lot of the techniques called for by Alton Brown in his truffle recipe. I highly recommend Alton's chocolate truffle episode if you're thinking about making them. He covers a lot of general chocolate-working tips.
I spent most of an afternoon making them, but I was rewarded with about 10 dozen really tasty truffles:
I need to work on making them look a little bit neater, but everyone who tried one thought they tasted fantastic. That was enough to make me want to make them again sometime, despite the giant mess. I went through two pairs of gloves during the coating process because the first pair got so covered in chocolate that I couldn't really articulate my fingers anymore.
Here's the complete recipe.
I doubled the Truffles recipe in Sherry Yard's The Secrets of Baking with a few modifications. I also used a lot of the techniques called for by Alton Brown in his truffle recipe. I highly recommend Alton's chocolate truffle episode if you're thinking about making them. He covers a lot of general chocolate-working tips.
I spent most of an afternoon making them, but I was rewarded with about 10 dozen really tasty truffles:
I need to work on making them look a little bit neater, but everyone who tried one thought they tasted fantastic. That was enough to make me want to make them again sometime, despite the giant mess. I went through two pairs of gloves during the coating process because the first pair got so covered in chocolate that I couldn't really articulate my fingers anymore.
Here's the complete recipe.