Preparation time: 40 mins
Cooking time: 0 mins
Serves: Makes approx 20
Description
Easy, no real cooking required, lovely liqueur truffles. No eggs or cream like a lot of truffle recipes so keep well too. Great as homemade gifts or just to treat yourself for a lot less than buying Thorntons!
Ingredients
- 125g Chocolate (Preferably dark but could use Milk)
- 50g Unsalted butter
- 125g plain sponge (eg trifle / flan base / plain cake)
- 50g Icing sugar
- 25ml Dark rum or Brandy
- 50g Cocoa powder or Icing sugar (for dusting)
- Chocolate sprinkles for extra decoration (optional)
Method
- Melt chocolate and butter in a dish over a saucepan of hot water, don’t let the water boil, just melt it slowly
- Meanwhile, crumble the sponge (I used a small blender but you could do this by hand)
- Add the icing sugar (sifted) and chosen liqueur to the sponge crumbs
- Pour the melted chocolate and butter into this mix
- Stir together until well mixed
- If it seems too wet then add more icing sugar, if too dry add more booze!
- Cover and refrigerate for 10-20 mins to make it easier to mould
- Dust fingers with icing sugar or cocoa to prevent sticking and then make individual balls to preferred size and roll in cocoa or icing sugar and sprinkles if wanted
- Eat!
(Tip… if giving as a gift, keep old chocolate boxes with the plastic trays in and re-cover them with attractive wrapping paper then use these to present your truffles)