Personalised and home made gifts just have an extra special touch to them. That's why I made my mum some chocolate chestnut truffle last week for her birthday. These truffles are simple to make (even if I have to chill them for longer just so I could shape them and a mess was still made). I'm slowly making my way through My Little French Kitchen cookbook.
First melt some of the chocolate then allow it to cool slightly.
While the chocolate is cooling, take the cooked chestnuts, soften butter, sugar and vanilla essence to and blend together. I had to use my sister's smoothie maker as we don't have a blender - it worked but just took a bit longer to ensure that everything got blended.
The next step is combine the cooled chocolate and chestnut mixture. I then had to chill my total mixture for at least 30 minutes to be able to make some sort of ball shape with them. As this was the case I had chilled my shaped truffles over night before coating them in chocolate.
To dip my truffles, I used a forked and then tapped the fork on the side of bowl to allow excess chocolate run off before using a cocktail stick to slide my truffles on to a wire rack to set.
I decorated and finished off my truffles with crystallised violets. Perfect for a gift or to finish off a dinner party.
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