Chocolate Truffles

Serve these after dinner, or make up a box of them for a festive gift. Chocolate heaven.

2 hours
Prep Time
(2)
Chocolate Truffles

Ingredients

  • 100g unsalted butter
  • 100g dark chocolate
  • 1 cup Chelsea icing sugar, approximately
  • 1 Tbsp rum
  • 1 tsp cocoa
  • Fine desiccated or shredded coconut
  • Chocolate hail

Method

  1. Put the butter and chocolate into a saucepan and heat gently, stirring until melted.
  2. Add ½ cup of the icing sugar and stir until the mixture is thick, then add the rum and cocoa. Add enough of the remaining icing sugar to form a stiff mixture.
  3. Scoop out tablespoonful of the mixture and shape into balls, then roll in the coconut or chocolate hail and chill until firm.

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Kelly

Measurements for icing sugar aren't accurate to form the right consistency, required so much more icing sugar than stated. Recipe is also unclear if we take off or keep on heat?