Nutty chocolate truffles

Name: Nutty chocolate truffles
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 27 min
Ingredients: 100 g pack hazelnuts; 200 g (7oz) dark chocolate (at least 50% cocoa), broken into pieces; 25 g (1oz) butter; 142 mL carton double cream; 3 tbsp. cocoa, sifted; 3 tbsp. golden icing sugar, sifted

They’re wonderfully moreish with after-dinner coffee and make a great Easter present, too

By The GH Kitchen TeamPublished: 22 April 2003

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Cooking Notes: plus 12hr chilling

Serving notes: Makes around 30

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Prep Time:

15 mins

Cook Time:

12 mins

Total Time:

27 mins

Ingredients

100 g pack hazelnuts
200 g (7oz) dark chocolate (at least 50% cocoa), broken into pieces
25 g (1oz) butter
142 ml carton double cream
3 Tbsp. cocoa, sifted
3 Tbsp. golden icing sugar, sifted

Directions

1. Step 1
  Put hazelnuts into a frying pan and heat gently for 3-4min, shaking the pan occasionally, to toast all over. Put 30 nuts into a bowl and leave to cool. Whiz remaining nuts in a processor until finely chopped. Put chopped nuts into a shallow dish.
2. Step 2
  Melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl suspended over a pan of just-boiled water (don't allow the bowl to touch the water). In a separate pan, melt the butter and cream together. Bring just to the boil, then remove from heat. Carefully stir into the chocolate. Whisk until cool and thick; chill for 1-2hr.
3. Step 3
  Put the cocoa and icing sugar into separate shallow dishes. Scoop up a teaspoonful of truffle mix and push a hazelnut into the centre. Working quickly, shape into a ball, then roll in cocoa, icing sugar or chopped nuts. Repeat with remaining mix, then chill. Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to two weeks.
  
  Video: How to make chocolate truffles

Per Serving:

Calories: 80
Total carbs: 6 g
Sugars: 3 g
Total fat: 6 g
Saturated fat: 4 g

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