Yummy chocolate truffles

Follow our easy recipe for a really scrummy treat! Make them as Christmas presents, or eat them yourself – you decide…

Level of difficulty: Easy

Preparation time: 20 minutes, plus cooling and setting time

Cooking time: 10 minutes

Ingredients
- 200g dark chocolate (at least 70% cocoa content) broken into pieces
- 200ml double cream
- Cocoa powder for dusting

Method
Slowly melt the chocolate until smooth and glossy in a bowl suspended over a pan of simmering water. Be careful! The bowl will get very hot so you may need an adult to help you to remove it.

Gently heat the cream in a saucepan until warm. Then pour the warm cream onto the melted chocolate and gently mix it until well until incorporated.

Pour the mixture into a bowl, cover and put in the fridge to cool and firm up. Once the mixture has set, lay out the paper sweet cases. It’s better to do it now because things are about to get messy!

Now, sift one level dessertspoon of cocoa powder on to a flat plate. Dust some powder on to your hands too to stop the chocolate from sticking.

Then take heaped half teaspoons of the truffle mixture and roll each one into a ball. Now roll them in the cocoa powder on the plate and place them in the sweet cases. The less you handle the chocolate the better as it will melt very easily.

And there you have it - yummy chocolate truffles!

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