Chocolate Caramel Truffles

Here’s another video around the topic Ganache. I want to share with you a caramel ganache recipe for hand rolled Truffles:

What you’ll need to make 12-15 Truffles: 

Ganache

  • 1/8 cup / 16g sugar

  • 1 tablespoon water

  • 1/4 teaspoon lemon juice

  • 1/3 cup / 70g cream

  • 3/4 cup / 130g small chopped dark chocolate

  • 1 tablespoon / 15g salted butter 

Truffles

  • 1 cup / 130g tempered chocolate

  • cacao nibs or cacao powder

How you can make them:

Ganache

  1. Add sugar, lemon juice, water and cream into a pot und heat up.

  2. Stir until sugar is dissolved.

  3. Wash down sugar particles with brush to avoid crystallization of sugar.

  4. Cook until 118°C / 244°F (might take up to 20 minutes).

  5. Remove from heat. 

  6. Add chopped dark chocolate into separate bowl and add butter

  7. Pour hot caramel in 3 steps to chocolate. After each step stir until chocolate and caramel is completely combined. 

  8. Allow to crystalize and cool down for at least 2 hours - better over night. 

Truffles

  1. Temper chocolate.

  2. Scoop balls.

  3. Enrobe balls with chocolate. 

  4. Roll into cacao nibs.

  5. Allow to cool down. 

ChocolateSpiel Truffle
Angela Pfleiderer