Indulge Yourself With Homemade Champagne Truffles

By Elizabeth Baker


Truffles are regarded as an indulgent treat and its assumed that you cannot make them at home because the recipe is pretty difficult to follow. Well, actually its a very simple recipe and once you know how to handle your chocolate you will become an expert truffle maker. Its pretty simple to make homemade champagne truffles all you have to do is to follow the recipe accurately.

All you have to do is to take plain chocolate, it could be white, milk or dark which ever variety you prefer the most. Usually, plain milk chocolate is preferred as it compliments the taste of champagne. If you use dark chocolate it may taste a bit too bitter after you add champagne to your mixture.

Put the chocolate into a food processor and grind it up until it becomes powdery. You cannot work with chopped up chocolate because it will leave lumps in the truffle mixture which won't taste nice at all.

Place a small saucepan on the stove and pour in cream, little amount of champagne and some butter and just lightly warm up this mixture. You don't have to boil it up otherwise champagne would just evaporate. Use full fat cream if you want to get a creamy texture. Afterwards add the mixture over the chocolate and blend it up until smooth and creamy in texture.

Blend everything together until a smooth paste is formed. To give it a tangy flavor, add a bit of yogurt and blend it again. At this stage the whole mixture would be very runny so you need to put it in a bowl and refrigerate it for the night. It will thicken up overnight and then you can simply make out truffles from it. This is the basic truffle mixture which you can use to make plain as well as other varieties of truffle.

Continuously utilize great quality chocolate for your truffles in light of the fact that else they won't taste great by any stretch of the imagination. Decide on brands that you can trust as opposed to purchasing something that is quite recently shoddy. Likewise, the champagne you utilize ought to be of good quality generally the truffles would taste too severe to devour.

You have to handle the truffle mixture very carefully because as soon as you take it out of the fridge and start handling it, the mixture begins to melt because its too delicate to handle. Try to make truffles as quickly as you can so that they retain their shape and look beautiful. Put them back in fridge once you are done so that they get some more time to set.

You could add different flavors to your truffle mixture like, chopped ginger, nuts, dried fruits and much more. Make sure that the additional flavors that you're using compliment the overall taste of the truffles. They remain good in taste for a couple of days time or you can also freeze them and they will taste the same once defrosted.




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