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🍰 Amaretto Truffles with Chocolate Shell
440 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 450 g dark chocolate couverture
- 80 g whipping cream
- 15 g soft butter
- 40 ml Amaretto
- 50 milk chocolate hollow balls
- 300 g dark chocolate couverture
- edible gold leaf (for decorating)
Instructions
- 1. Heat the cream in a small saucepan until it is warm.
- 2. Roughly chop the milk chocolate.
- 3. Set aside 200 grams of the chopped chocolate.
- 4. Melt the remaining 250 grams of chocolate in the warm cream while stirring.
- 5. Stir the butter into the chocolate cream.
- 6. Let the cream cool down to about 30 degrees Celsius.
- 7. Stir the Amaretto liqueur into the cooled cream.
- 8. Let the cream cool further until it becomes thicker.
- 9. Fill the cream into a piping bag fitted with a round tip.
- 10. Pipe the cream into the hollow milk chocolate spheres.
- 11. Let the filled spheres set overnight in the refrigerator.
- 12. Finely chop the dark chocolate.
- 13. Mix the dark chocolate with the 200 grams of reserved milk chocolate.
- 14. Melt the chocolate mixture over a bowl of hot water.
- 15. Temper the chocolate down to about 28 degrees Celsius.
- 16. Take filled spheres into your palms and roll them in the liquid chocolate.
- 17. Place the round rolled spheres on baking paper.
- 18. Dip the truffles using a praline fork into the liquid chocolate.
- 19. Place the coated truffles on a wire rack.
- 20. Let the chocolate set for a moment.
- 21. Roll the truffles on the rack with the fork to create a pointed shape.
- 22. Lift the finished truffles from the rack.
- 23. Place them on foil.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 440
- Protein: 6 g · Fett/Fat: 30 g · Carbs: 37 g