Brandy Truffles

[TpdNotts]

Does anyone have a decent recipe for Brandy truffles? Going for dinner with girlfriends on Friday and as well as taking the usual bottle of vino I wanted to take something extra and seeing as we all love chocolate I thought truffles would be good.

Teresa

[Gruffy]

I think you'd struggle to find a bad truffle recipe in all honesty, but I've tried these from Delia and they were pretty good.
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/home-made-choco...

[TpdNotts]

Gruffy said:

I think you'd struggle to find a bad truffle recipe in all honesty, but I've tried these from Delia and they were pretty good.
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/home-made-choco...

Thanks for that. In actual fact that was the exact recipe I ended up using, though I left out the greek yogurt as I forgot to get some (any idea what greek yogurt 'adds' to the recipe?). I've tasted one this morning and as you say they are pretty good! Do you do any other flavours that work well? I struggled getting them into neat balls of chocolate but they look reasonably tempting! Thanks for replying.

Teresa

[Gruffy]

You can literally do anything you like with these. I've tried them rolled in chopped pistachios, with chopped brandy-soaked cherries, rolled in coconut, try switching the brandy/rum for something else etc etc.

They needn't be neat either, but if you're trying to then the trick is to get the mixture at the right temperature (cool, but not hard) and then work quickly and lightly before your hands melt them. Run them under the cold tap (then dry them off) for a minute before you start.

[TpdNotts]

Gruffy said:

You can literally do anything you like with these. I've tried them rolled in chopped pistachios, with chopped brandy-soaked cherries, rolled in coconut, try switching the brandy/rum for something else etc etc.

They needn't be neat either, but if you're trying to then the trick is to get the mixture at the right temperature (cool, but not hard) and then work quickly and lightly before your hands melt them. Run them under the cold tap (then dry them off) for a minute before you start.

I got the mixture straight out of the fridge and started rolling and, as you say, they started to melt very quickly.Think I'm better sticking with the rock-effect look which involves less 'rolling'. They really were tasty though. I have some Drambuie and wondered how that would taste in them.