Does the word “Truffle” scare you? Sound to fancy and hard to make?? They aren’t! I learned this method and recipe from my friend (thanks Rana!)- and now I’m passing it on to you. So here’s a how to make chocolate truffles in the microwave. They look yummy, right??
First, grab your ingredients:
–1 C Heavy Cream
–10 oz bittersweet chocolate
–3 Tbsp unsalted butter
So, I thought I’d need some sort of fancy hard-to-find chocolate. Not quite – you use chocolate chips! Found at Walmart – the most unfancy store. They need to be “dark” chocolate, which is 60% cocoa, so just look for that. I double the recipe and used 2 bags choc chips, the whole thing of cream pictured, and 6 tbsp unsalted butter:
Oh, and you’ll need one of these:
Yes! I made them with the microwave. It doesn’t get easier than that. Heat cream in microwave until it is simmering. Then pour in the chocolate chips. Let sit a moment or two.
At this point, I started to wonder if this would work. But it does – add the butter and stir until everything is melted – really, it will look like this eventually:
Then you cool then to room temperature. After that chill for at least 4 hours. Then take a spoonful and roll it until it makes a ball. Repeat a gazillion times. Rana claims you can use a melon baller, but I couldn’t get that to work. My hands were a crazy mess, so no pictures of the rolling process. Then you have to decide:
–Option 1: roll them in cocoa or powdered sugar – if so, do this now
–Option 2: dip them in chocolate – my choice – if so, freeze the balls for at least 4 hours (I stuck them in overnight)
I’m sure Rana would say to dip them in dark chocolate (she’s a self-proclaimed chocolate snob) – don’t even mention candy melts to her! I went with semi-sweet chocolate – again, in “chip form”. You melt 1 cup chocolate with 1 tsp vegetable oil. Again, IN the Microwave – easy! This time use the “defrost” button because otherwise the intense heat can scorch the chocolate.
After heating, you can keep it from hardening by placing the bowl of chocolate in a pan of hot (not boiling) water, like so:
Then drop a frozen ball in, roll it around until coated, scoop out with a fork, tap on the edge of the bowl to release excess chocolate, and set on wax paper to dry. I then piped on some almond bark I happened to have to make them look fancy. Voila! Perfect for Valentine’s (or anytime!)
And yes, they are melt-in-your-mouth delicious. I took a bite for you to make sure. Actually I ate an innumerable amount until I was half sick. And did it again the next day. And probably will again tomorrow. Yum.
Ok, I totally have to try these. Every time I start a diet I seem to find something else tempting on a blog…. blogging is terrible for my waistline! All the same… these MUST be tried! 😀 Thanks for sharing. Have a great day.
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YUMMY! Those look easy enough even for me…will be heading for the choco chips today.
I just wanted to let you know that I loved this project idea so much that I FEATURED it on The Weekly Review on my blog: Humble Homemaking. Head over the link below to check it out and grab your ‘featured’ button! 🙂 Have a wonderful day.
https://humblehomemaking.blogspot.com/2011/02/saturdays-weekend-review.html
Oh my gosh, these look delicious! I love the white chocolate on top.
YOU did good, my dear!! Very “top shelf”!!
Those DO look yummy!!! And SO pretty in your little heart dish! 🙂
Yum!
Thanks for this link!! Yes…I WILL be doing these!
I love that these can be made in the microwave!!! I know I would eat myself sick too many times to count!!!
These truffles look dangerously delicious! I will have to make them when I have people around to share with.
These truffles do not set at room temperature. There is too much whipping cream in the recipe. It needs to be halved. Pretty bummed at how soft they are. It was a lot of work rolling them to not have them set. ;-(
bummer, they set for me. Great idea to try cutting the cream. I wonder if humidity or altitude might play a role as well. Sorry it didn’t work out for you!
I loved the recipe, I’ll do it too
Thank you