Chocolate Truffles For Your Wedding Day
The most beautiful day of everyone's life is, of course, the wedding day. For this occasion you want everything to be perfect. The wedding arrangements, the clothing and the food, all of them you want to be only the best. When it comes to the sweets, you will have, of course, the wedding cake, but you also have to include other deserts. Why not include some sort of small chocolate balls, for everyone to serve? One of the best chocolate treats for special occasions like this are truffles. And because we are talking about the wedding, why not prepare some wedding truffles for your guests? They are not difficult to prepare and the result is really exquisite. Everyone will be surprised and not many will believe you when you will tell them that you have prepared those wedding truffles by yourself. There are several wedding truffle recipes and below we will present two of the most delicious and easy to prepare.
Wedding Truffles Recipe #1 First, you need to know the necessary ingredients: You will need 1 cup of Oreo Cookies (have them very finely cut), 12T melted butter, 6 oz. white chocolate (brake it into small pieces), 5 egg yolks, 1 ¼ cup confectioner's sugar and 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract. Take the cookies and chop them very finely in a blender. Slowly drizzle in 6 tablespoons of melted butter and process till well mixed. Take the remaining tablespoons of butter and heat them in a small saucepan until very hot and bubbly (but be careful not to let it burn). Now remove the mixture from the heat source and add the white chocolate. . Stir constantly until smooth and melted. Take a separate bowl and beat the egg yolks until foamy. You can begin to pour in the sugar gradually, add vanilla and continue to beat until the mixture gets thick. Now set the mixer on a slow speed and beat in the cookie mixture. Then gradually beat in the melted chocolate mixture. Beat until smooth and well mixed. Place the entire chocolate cream in the fridge until it gets firm. While the mixture is let to cool down, prepare the coating (you can use anything you want for coating, from toasted coconut, to chopped nuts or powdered chocolate). Take the mixture from the fridge and form little chocolate balls, which then put in the coating bowl. Roll them thoroughly until the entire chocolate truffle is evenly and smoothly coated. Keep them in the fridge until the wedding day. Wedding Truffles Recipe #2 Another recipe includes 1 cup of peanut butter chips, 3/4 cups of butter, 1/2 cup cocoa, 1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk and 1 tablespoon vanilla. Heat slowly the peanut butter chips with the butter until they melt and mix together. Then, pour in the cocoa until the composition is very smooth. Then add the condensed milk and vanilla and cook and stir until thickened and well blended, for about 4 minutes. Remove from heat and let it chill until it is firm enough to handle. You can now shape them into 1 inch balls you can roll in the desired coating. You can keep them in the fridge for about two or three weeks. |
