WOW...these truffles are out of this world!! The addition of chocolate cake crumbs really makes these truffles unique. I made 75 truffles for my graduation party but since we don't drink I modified slightly. I made 25 peanut butter truffles (omitted rum and added a few tbs. of creamy peanut butter) 25 espresso truffles (replaced rum with espresso and added instant coffee granules) and 25 raspberry truffles (omitted rum and added raspberry preserves). For coating I dipped some in melted chocolate and rolled others in cocoa nuts and flaked coconut.
This was my first time making truffles and they turned out great! I made them with half and half and coated them with melted chocolate. Very easy to make!
Great recipe. The chocolate was taking ages to melt for me so I sat my bowl in another shallow bowl of hot water till it melted down. Really easy to make and so very very delicious. the alcohol is just a nice background note (and i put more in than the recpie said too) but you definitely need to usehigh quality chocolate to make them. Excellent present idea!
these are really good. Even though real truffles are only made with cream chocolate and a flavoring whithout cake they tasted pretty nice. I used orange extract instead of rum. They actually tasted very much like the no alcohol rum balls I am used to having!They are a great way to use up chocolate cake that turned dry. I had made chocolate cupcakes that came out dry and stuck to the pan so there was no way I could use them as cupcakes. This recipe was perfect for using all the crumbled cupcakes! I am so glad I found this recipe instead of wasting all those not so good cupcakes (even though I used the rest in a yummy trifle;) ). I did not give them five star only because they did not really taste like truffles and second they were a bit too soft for my taste. Still a great recipe though!
I made these for xmas treats and they were a huge hit. The only problem I have with this is you can't taste the rum at all so I will add a bit more the next time I make these.
5 stars once I figured out how to form them. The only way to roll these is to stick the "dough" in the fridge for about an hour... otherwise it's like a thick goopy batter and impossible to handle. Used rum extract instead of rum which worked fine and coated half of mine in coconut.
This was my first time making truffles and I have to say they tasted like a small bite of heaven. I used semi-sweet chocolate chips instead of bittersweet chocolate because I couldn't find it here. I put a bit less than called for cause of the sweetness factor. I think it worked perfectly. I also added a bit more rum than the recipe stated. All in all definitely 5 stars! Will be making this again.
Very good! Thought it was never going to get hard enough to roll into balls but chilled it for about 15 minutes and was just right. Used coffee flavored tequila.
This was simple and great. I used semisweet chocolate (couldn't fine bittersweet) and they were a tiny bit on the sweet side. I couldn't really taste the rum at all but I loved how soft they were. I'm going to try this again with bittersweet chocolate and a more intense liqueur.
Easy to make fairly tasty but don't taste like a true truffle. The chocolate needs to be chopped very finely almost shaved in order to melt properly.
