In the last couple or days I have made some turtles and chocolate covered truffles. Here is a sampling.
Turtles were made by tossing toasted pecans in some caramel melted with a little water, then cooling and dropping some melted chocolate on top.
Chocolate Truffles
Makes about 5 dozen
28 ounces semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
3/4 cup heavy cream
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 1/2 tablespoons liqueur, I used an orange flavored liqueur (optional)
Best-quality cocoa powder
Melted chocolate, cream together in double boiler, stirred in liqueur and butter until melted. Pour into 8x8-inch baking dish lined with parchment and chilled for two hours. Dusted with cocoa power, cut into squares and put back in refrigerator until chocolate was melted. Rolled in chocolate to cover. Used a plastic fork with the two center tines broken out as a tool to move the truffles in the chocolate and then onto parchment to harden. Chocolate coating is dark chocolate on some and milk chocolate on others. If I had some white chocolate, I'd have drizzled some on top for decoration and even coated some truffles in white chocolate but maybe that will be for next time.
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