I want to make one big chocolate truffle as a favour for each guest - the problem is I want them to look like a Tiffany box (photo on my profile under favour) so I was thinking I would dye white choc with food colour and add the bow in white and may be use a ice cube tray to make the shape
dose any one have any recipes I could use or Ideas to help me??
Cant wait for my Tiffany & co, wedding - July 16th 2011
CommentAuthorrainykins
Everytime ive made truffles i tend to stick with a basic of chocolate and double cream or whipped cream (cant recall exact amounts, but will try and find the recipe out) Basically all you gotta do is heat the cream up to boiling point and no hotter, then pour over the broken chocolate, leave to cool for a few minutes, then you whisk it all together untill the chocolate loses its glossiness in color. As to wether they would work in ice cube trays im not sure. I guess they could work, providing they are silicon, but best bet on that would be to try and see if it would work (i always use either 2 small spoons, or a melon ball scopper)
Hope this helps a little hun, but ill defo try and locate the recipe and add it here for you :)
CommentAuthorrainykins
edited
in response to my last post : 225g of chocolate (the more cocoa % the richer they will be) and 175g of double cream or whipping cream.
Chop chocolate into small pieces, heat cream in a pan til it reaches a rolling boil, pour over chocolate, leave a few minutes then whisk vigorously til the chocolate loses its gloss.
As a tip i saw you mentioned white chocolate, i found white chocolate truffles a nightmare to get right, as everytime i tried the chocolate never set right. Hope this is of some help hun :)
EDIT: just had an after thought, you could always make milk chocolate truffles and try to set them in ice cube trays and then cover them in white chocolate with food coloring added, it may not quite be the effect you were after, but it would be something similar if that makes any sense (sorry if it doesnt, i was working last night and haven't had any sleep since yesterday morning)
CommentAuthorMrs Buzzlightyear
thanks thats great I was thinking of making them then covering in the blue chocolate - dose chocolate even dye??
Cant wait for my Tiffany & co, wedding - July 16th 2011
CommentAuthorrainykins
i just found something online and will post it to your wall, it does say you can but it got too complex for me today lol hope it helps though
truffles I made (in heart shapes) for BIL's wedding were cake crumbled up (choc cake) and mixed with ganache (2 parts dark chocolate to 1 part boiled cream). If you're colouring chocolate please don't try and use liquid colours, there are powder and gel colours which would work 100% better. As for the bows, you can get chocolate moulds in bow shapes from bay of e. Hope this offers *some* help...
CommentAuthorsalamander
if you were making white chocolate ganache you need 4 times the amount of chocolate to cream!
CommentAuthorHalloween_Bride
Truffles are time consuming, i made some at college & it took 3 hours all together because you have to taper the chocolate, make the ganache etc I've popped a recipe on your wall that makes 50 hope it helps xxx
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