It Is Really A Great Chocolate Truffles Recipe

One of the many reasons I love Christmas is that to me it doesn't mean cookies, but chocolate truffles! I think it is the most delicious and exquisite food in the world. Here's a recipe to make them the way we make them in France.

Ingredients:

• 250 grams dark chocolate
• 125 g butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla flavored sugar
• 125 g powdered sugar
• 50 g pure cocoa powder, or powder sugar, or flavored sugar, or pieces of nuts, or matcha tea, or whatever else you want for the coating

Recipe:

1. Melt the chocolate and butter in a small sauce pan, on low heat, stirring constantly.
2. Remove from the stove. Add the vanilla-flavored sugar and the powdered sugar. Mix well until it's all smooth and a uniform batter.
3. Transfer into a bowl and refrigerate for 2 hours.
4. Take out of the fridge and take pieces of dough with a spoon. Roll the pieces into balls.
5. When all the dough has been rolled into small balls, roll the balls in cocoa powder. Use a spoon or other utensil to roll them in the powder, to avoid body heat. Put the truffles on a plate or in a container and refrigerate for one more hour.

More:

Depending on the room temperature and depending on how firm you like them, keep either in the fridge or in an air-tight container at room temperature.

Other suggestions of coating: cayenne, coffee powder, flavored sugars, grated coconut, pecan pieces, grated chocolate, maple sugar, etc.

If you wish to reduce the refrigeration time because you're in a hurry, refrigerate only for one hour the first time, and not at all the second time. You'll have the risk that the melted-chocolate mixture has not solidified enough, though.