Chocolate Truffles

One of the most welcomed of homemade holiday gifts is a box of homemade chocolate truffles. Making the chocolates out of a whole food sugar adds a new dimension—nutrients!—and will introduce this contemporary holiday choice to your friends and family. Place a postcard with this recipe for the truffles in the package as an extra gift.

To assuage some guilt about these decadent confections, let me give you the link
for Care2′s Directory of Natural Sweeteners.

Chocolate Truffles

Ingredients
9 oz. semisweet chocolate (Belgian is recommended)
1 c. heavy cream
1/4. c. unsalted butter
3 tablespoons Sucanat or organic sugar
3 tablespoons Grand Marnier or Caraco liquor
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/8 cup instant coffee (optional)

Melt the chocolate and half the butter in a pan over warm water (or in a double boiler). Add the cream, the rest of the butter and Sucanat, stirring vigorously between each additional item. Do not overheat. Stir in the liquor. Remove from heat, place in a bowl, and cool. Place the bowl in the refrigerator overnight. Once set, shape into balls and roll in cocoa, ground almonds, roasted ground hazelnuts, praline, or other coating as desired. Package as desired.
Makes about 30 truffles.

To give you another of our favorite winter holiday baking traditions, make Our Candied or Crystalized Citrus Rinds!

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Malgorzata Z.

11:30AM PST on Feb 11, 2012

brzmi ciekawie, u mnie trudno o te składniki

send a green star

Melinda K.

3:52AM PST on Dec 22, 2011

I like to make my own up with ground up nuts, seeds, cacao powder and agave and vanilla, roll them in coconut and they are superfood balls of goodness, these look lovely but a bit too rich for me!

May H.

11:29AM PDT on Oct 15, 2011

the chocolate is melting in my mouth as we speak

Jennifer C.

2:20AM PDT on Oct 5, 2011

Yummy! Thanks.

Ida J.

6:41AM PDT on Oct 3, 2011

thank you :)

Michele W.

1:03PM PDT on Sep 9, 2011

Yummy!
Thank you

Jon H.

7:21AM PDT on Jun 1, 2011

Be nice if they had Chocolate Rum Balls.

7:19AM PDT on Jun 1, 2011

Mmmmmmmm Chocolate. I'm in heaven now.

David N.

6:17PM PST on Dec 10, 2010

I love my chocolate!!!

Robert O.

5:38PM PST on Nov 29, 2010

Sounds good. I used to give boxes of store bought gourmet truffles away as presents many years ago and people just loved them. Most people like chocolate, especially truffles.