Italian Chocolate Truffles

I found this delicious, easy to make, recipe in Jacqueline Bellefontaine‘s What’s Cooking – Chocolate, I changed one ingredient (butter) to make it parve and it still tasted great, in fact these truffles disappeared in no time!

Photo by: St John Asprey - What's Cooking Chocolate, page 251

Yields: 24 truffles

Ingredients

• 6 ounces dark chocolate
• 2 tbsp almond flavored liqueur (amaretto) or orange flavored liqueur
• 3 tbsp unsalted margarine
• 1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar
• 1/2 cup ground almonds
• 1 3/4 ounces grated chocolate

Directions

1. Melt the chocolate and the liqueur in a double boiler, stirring until combined.
2. Add the margarine and stir until it has melted. Stir in the confectioners’ sugar and the ground almonds
3. Leave the mixture in a cool place until firm enough to roll about 24 balls.
4. Place the grated chocolate on a plate and roll the truffles in the chocolate to coat them.
5. Place the truffles in paper candy cases and chill.

Cook’s Tip: These truffles will keep for about 2 weeks in a cool place.

Variation: For a dairy, sweeter, truffle use milk chocolate and sweet butter instead of dark chocolate and margarine. Dip the truffles into melted chocolate to finish, if desired.

Either variation goes great with coffee. Personally, I can’t wait to make the dairy variation. These truffles could then become a great breakfast, or dairy lunch (or dairy dinner) treat.

Enjoy, gentle reader, enjoy!

CS