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Three Chocolate Truffles Recipes

Three Delicious Chocolate Truffles Recipes. Three amazing favors: dark chocolate with cardamom or lavender and white chocolate with lemon and pistachios.
Course Dessert
Cuisine European
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Resting time 1 hour 20 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings 12 servings
Calories 789kcal

Ingredients

Dark Chocolate Truffles with Cardamom and Herbal Liquer

  • 250 grams or 9 oz 85% cocoa chocolate or less
  • 90 ml or 1/2 cup heavy cream
  • 70 ml or 2.5 fl oz herbal liquer (or whisky, rum, etc)
  • 2 teaspoons green cardamom seeds ground
  • 2 teaspoons black cardamom seeds ground, or just use more green cardamom
  • 50 grams or 7 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

Dark Chocolate Truffles with Lavender and Honey

  • 85 ml or a bit less than 1/2 cup heavy cream
  • 2 teaspoons ground lavender
  • 250 grams or 9 oz 72% cocoa chocolate or any dark chocolate
  • 2 tablespoons honey
  • 50-60 grams or 2 oz chopped or ground chocolate

White Chocolate Hearts with Lemon, Pistachios and Black Pepper

  • 150 grams or 5.3 oz white chocolate
  • 2 tablespoons lemon juice
  • 1 tablespoon lemon zest
  • 2 tablespoons unsalted and peeled pistachios
  • 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
  • Additionally: praline mold

Instructions

Dark Chocolate Truffles with Cardamom and Herbal Liquer

  • Use a water bath to melt chocolate (set a heat-proof bowl with roughly chopped chocolate into a pot or a skillet with boiling water and simmer until the chocolate is melted).
  • Add heavy cream, herbal liquer and green and black ground cardamom seeds. Stirring constantly, let it combine into a smooth mixture for 1-2 minutes and remove from the stove.
  • Let it cool to a room temperature and put it in the fridge for 1-2 hours until the mixture is firm enough to work with.
  • Spread the cocoa powder into a rimmed plate using a sieve. Take a tablespoon of the chocolate mixture and roll it using both hands until a small ball is formed. Roll it in the cocoa powder.
  • Repeat with the rest of the chocolate mixture. Enjoy!

Dark Chocolate Truffles with Lavender and Honey

  • Combine heavy cream with 1 teaspoon lavender in a pot and bring to a boil over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat, cover with a lid and let stand for 10 minutes. Filter the cream-lavender mixture through the sieve into a measuring cup and add add water until it reaches the initial volume (small part of the creme has evaporated). Add honey and bring to a boil again.
  • Meanwhile, chop or grind the chocolate. I left some bigger pieces so that it won't melt from the hot cream mixture, adding a little bit of crunchy texture to the finished product.
  • When the cream is ready, pour it in a bowl with chopped chocolate and mix well. Let it cool to a room temperature and put it in the fridge for 1-2 hours until the mixture is firm enough to work with.
  • Combine the ground chocolate and the rest of lavender in a rimmed plate. Take a tablespoon of the chocolate mixture and roll it using both hands until a small ball is formed. Roll it in the chocolate-lavender mixture.
  • Repeat with the rest of the chocolate mixture. Enjoy!

White Chocolate Hearts with Lemon, Pistachios and Black Pepper

  • Use a water bath to melt chocolate (set a heat-proof bowl with roughly chopped chocolate into a pot or a skillet with boiling water and simmer until the chocolate is melted).
  • Add lemon juice, lemon zest, chopped pistachios, ground black pepper and turmeric and mix well. Pour the mixture into the chocolate mold Let it cool to a room temperature and put it in the freezer for 1-2 hours until firm. Remove from the mold. Enjoy!
  • Pack chocolate truffles in a nice box to give them as a gift. Store them in the fridge.

Notes

It will take you around 40-50 minutes to make the chocolate mixture for the first and the second kind of truffles and let it cool to a room temperature + 1-2 hours in the fridge + 20-30 minutes to roll. Estimated overall time for these truffles is about 2 to 3.5 hours.
White chocolate hearts are the quickest to make. It takes from 1 hour 20 minutes to 2 hours 20 minutes all together.

Nutrition

Calories: 789kcal | Carbohydrates: 45g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 21g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Cholesterol: 29mg | Sodium: 49mg | Potassium: 130mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 38g | Vitamin A: 320IU | Vitamin C: 2.1mg | Calcium: 99mg | Iron: 1.4mg