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Christmas Chocolate Truffles

An easy and forgiving recipe where nothing can go wrong.

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Servings 10
Author Samira

Ingredients

  • 6 Pc Marie Biscuits crushed (See Note 1)
  • 1/4 Cup Mixed Nuts Roasted and chopped(almonds, cashews, raisins, walnuts etc) (See Note 2 & 3)
  • 1 Tbsp Brandy/Rum/Honey
  • 2 Tbsp Brown Sugar See Note 4
  • Few Drops Almond Essence
  • 1/2 Tbsp Cinnamon Powder
  • 2 Tbsp 30 g Cream (See Note 5)
  • 60 gms Dark Chocolate See Note 6

Instructions

  1. Crush biscuits using a rolling pin.
  2. Roast nuts and crush them.
  3. Add raisins, dates etc.
  4. Break the dark chocolate into small pieces. It is broken or crushed so that it melts easily.
  5. Heat cream in a pan on medium flame.
  6. When starts bubbling around the edges, switch off the flame, add broken dark chocolate, now without mixing, just cover it. The heat of the cream is enough to melt the chocolate.
  7. Till the chocolate gets melted, you do the other preparations.
  8. In a bowl, take crushed biscuits, chopped nuts, brandy (or rum or honey),  brown sugar, almond essence and cinnamon powder and mix nicely.
  9. By now, chocolate must have melted, stir until smooth.
  10. Add this chocolate to the dry mix.
  11. Mix properly and keep this in the refrigerator for 15 to 20 minutes or till firm.
  12. Do not try to form balls now as it will be very moist at this stage.
  13. After some time in the refrigerator, chocolate will set partially.
  14. Then form balls.
  15. Now coat these balls with any of the following:
  16. Desiccated Coconut
  17. Chocolate Sprinkles
  18. Confetti
  19. Mix of cocoa+castor sugar+
  20. finely chopped nutsOats/CornflakesDried Rose Petals,
  21. Icing Sugar
  22. Serve with love or gift to your loved ones...

Recipe Notes

  1. You can take leftover biscuits also, provided they are not salty.
  2. Roasted nuts taste better, however, you can take plain nuts also.
  3. Add whatever variety of nuts you prefer (or available in your pantry while making these) like almonds, cashews, walnuts, peanuts, raisins, dates, figs, dried apricots, prunes etc.
  4. You can omit brown sugar, especially if the biscuits are sweet.
  5. You can take normal dairy cream or heavy whipping cream, whichever is easily available. I used Amul's tetra pack.
  6. Take dark chocolate compound or dark chocolate, any of the two.