I Heart Making Chocolate Truffles

Saturday night I was throwing an event, which was at the same time as my friend’s 30th birthday party. I felt so terrible that I wasn’t able to make it,  I decided to make her chocolate truffles.

I found this great recipe on The Pioneer Woman. It was a pretty easy recipe and they came out pretty well.

Ingredients:

• *8 ounces, weight (up To 9 Oz.) Good Semisweet Chocolate
• *8 ounces, weight (up To 9 Oz.) Good Bittersweet Chocolate
• *1 can (14 Oz) Sweetened Condensed Milk
• *1 Tablespoon Vanilla Extract
• *8 ounces, weight Meltable Milk Chocolate
• *Sea Salt

Instructions:

• 1. Heat dark chocolates and condensed milk in a double boiler over medium low heat until chocolate is melted.
• 2. Stir—mixture will have a slight marshmallow texture.
• 3. Stir in vanilla.
• 4. Remove from heat, cover and refrigerate for two hours.
• 5. Once chilled, roll in balls, then roll in melted milk chocolate coating. Sprinkle with sea salt or other fine, coarse sprinkles.

I made two mistakes, at first I didn’t roll all of the chilled chocolate into balls and just rolled and dipped one at a time in the melted milk chocolate. The milk chocolate started to harden. It was then that I realized and I rolled the rest of the chilled chocolate into balls.

I then made my first box of chocolate for my friend and tied it with a bow.

But I went crazy making way more chocolate than could fit in that box so I brought them to my event, in Tupperware. Yes, I was running an ArtBattle event at the hip Liberty Hall space in The Ace Hotel  pulling out my chocolates for anyone willing to try. That is until I put them down on a table, turned around and they were swiped. Perhaps they were THAT good, or a bus boy thought it was garbage. Either way, about 3/4 of them were enjoyed. Now I just have to give the box to my friend!