How to Create a Milk Chocolate Truffle

Chocolate truffles are a delicious treat.

Chocolate truffles are generally a luxury but can be made reasonably inexpensively. Making your own truffles, you can use them for gift-giving or just as a treat. Generally made with dark chocolate, these truffles will be enjoyed by milk chocolate lovers as well. Does this Spark an idea?

Print this article

1 cup creme fraiche or double cream
14 oz. high quality milk chocolate (70 percent cocoa)
8 oz. standard milk chocolate
1½ cups cocoa powder
3 tbsp. butter (optional)
Small paper cake cases
Large bowl
Whisk (optional)
Parchment or wax paper

Instructions

- 1
  
  Using the high quality chocolate, break it into small pieces into the large bowl. Slowly bring cream to boil. Pour cream over the chocolate and stir until the chocolate has melted. The mixture should now be thick. Add the butter if desired, before the ganache cools.
- 2
  
  Thicken the ganache by whisking it or by putting it in the refrigerator. It needs to be thick enough to form the truffle balls.
- 3
  
  Place parchment or wax paper on a tray. Form the ganache into balls and put on the paper.
- 4
  
  Melt the other chocolate in a bowl over a saucepan of boiling water. Sprinkle the cocoa powder evenly onto a tray. Dip the truffles into the melted chocolate and roll over the cocoa powder. Place into the small paper cake cases.