Chocolate, mint & chilli truffles
Make these easy homemade truffles as an edible gift or after dinner treat - balance heat from the chilli with cooling mint extract
- plus 2 hrs chilling
- Makes 25 truffles
- Easy
Ingredients
- 150ml double cream
- 100g milk chocolate, chopped
- 100g dark chocolate, chopped
- 2 tbsp butter
- 3 tbsp golden syrup
- 1 tsp mint extract
- 2 red bird's-eye chillies, roughly chopped
- 50g blanched almonds, finely chopped and toasted
Method
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Pour the cream into a pan and heat until just steaming, but not boiling. Put the chopped chocolate and butter in a bowl, pour over the hot cream, and stir until smooth. Add the golden syrup, mint extract and chilli. Chill until firm, about 2 hrs.
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Using a melon baller roll into 1 tsp balls. Roll the balls in chopped almonds and set on a tray. Cover and chill until serving.
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