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🍽️ Homemade Giotto Truffles

519 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Heat the cream in a saucepan until it boils.
  2. 2. Chop the dark chocolate (chocolate for melting) into small pieces.
  3. 3. Place the chocolate pieces and the nougat in a bowl.
  4. 4. Remove the saucepan with the cream from the heat.
  5. 5. Stir the chocolate mixture into the hot cream.
  6. 6. Continue stirring until everything is completely melted and smooth.
  7. 7. Let the mixture cool down briefly.
  8. 8. Place the covered bowl in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours.
  9. 9. Roast the chopped hazelnuts in a frying pan over low to medium heat.
  10. 10. Roast the nuts until they are golden brown.
  11. 11. Place the rose hips (dried rose hips) into a freezer bag.
  12. 12. Crush the rose hips with a rolling pin or similar object.
  13. 13. Crush the rose hips until they are crumbly.
  14. 14. Mix the crushed rose hips with the roasted nuts.
  15. 15. Chop the remaining chocolate.
  16. 16. Melt the chocolate over a hot water bath.
  17. 17. A water bath is a bowl with chocolate placed over a pot with hot, but not boiling water.
  18. 18. Take portions of the cold nougat cream with a teaspoon.
  19. 19. Shape the portions into balls with your hands.
  20. 20. Dip each ball into the melted chocolate using a fork.
  21. 21. Let the excess coating drip off well.
  22. 22. Then roll the balls in the nut-rose hip mixture.
  23. 23. Place the finished truffles on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
  24. 24. Let the truffles set.

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