These kids chocolate truffles is a must try (and adopt!). Chocolate truffles can be a bit bitter for children when coated with cocoa. Well, just change the coating! Here we used 100s & 1000s. Great result! My daughter initiated it for the school end of year class party.
Making chocolate truffles is a great activity for kids and they can pretty much do it all on their own. Oh yes, they will love getting their hands dirty for rolling the chocolate in small balls! You may need a few “no licking the fingers” rules there!
This recipe makes about 30.
Ingredients
Use a good quality chocolate, a couverture chocolate is even better but you can also use a compound dark cooking chocolate, it will still be delicious.
- 330 g of dark chocolate 70% cocoa
- 25 cl (250 ml) of cream
- 50 g of good quality soft butter (real butter please, no substitute here)
- a pack of hundreds&thousands or other small size sugar coloured decoration.
Tip: you can always use the mortar or food processor to further reduce the size of the pieces if to long.
Method:
- Cut the chocolate in small pieces with a large knife, place in a bowl.
- Boil the cream in a saucepan
- Pour the cream on top of the chocolate, cover for one minute then mix well until all the chocolate is melted.
- Add the butter, mix well. Place in a shallow container (aim at 1.5 cm thickness of chocolate) and refrigerate for 2 hours minimum until firm.
- When ready to shape the truffles, you have 2 options:
- Either use a teaspoon, scoop out the equivalent of a macadamia nut (for those who don’t know macadamia, it is between a walnut and a hazelnut). Roll in your hands to form a ball
- Reverse the chocolate preparation on a chopping board, cut stripes 1.5 cm thick, repeat in the other directions to obtain cubes and roll each cube in a ball
- Transfer the balls to a large based plate with 100 & 1000s and roll them until coated (different techniques below).
7. Transfer to a storage box and keep in the fridge until you ready to serve. The truffles can remain at room temperature for some time, it all depends on the temperature.
