Some friends are coming over on Saturday to watch the movie Chocolat. I've been wanting to try my hand at truffles and this seemed like a good excuse.
I steeped lavender buds in coconut milk for 30 minutes. Then I strained out the lavender, reheated the coconut milk and mixed in the chocolate. Stirred until smooth and then chilled the chocolate until it was firm. I formed the chocolate into balls and placed them in the refrigerator while I melted white chocolate chips. The while chocolate wouldn't melt smoothly so I added a little oil and then it melted nicely. I dipped the dark chocolate balls into the white chocolate but the balls were melting too much. I put the balls into the freezer for 10 minutes and tried again and that worked well. I also rolled some truffles in cocoa powder instead of dipping them. Then I chilled the truffles for about half an hour in the refrigerator and YUM!
The only problem will be hiding these from my family until Saturday night . . . .
2 comments:
Sounds wonderful - want another visitor!
Yummy! I don't suppose you plan on sharing that exact recipe, huh?
:-)
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