Coconut Cake Truffles

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

To all my friends, fans and readers,  may this Valentine's be a lovely one for you. 

To make about 20 truffles:
80-120g plain chocolate (according to preference)
small knob of butter
130g cake crumbs
some coconut flakes

You don't really have to be accurate with these ingredients. Just rough estimates will do. 


Making the truffles:
1 - Melt the chocolate and butter bain marie. Stir till smooth, then remove from heat.

2 - Pour over cake crumbs and mix well.

3 - Roll mixture into small balls.  If mixture is too soft, chill in the fridge for a while till it firms up.

4 - Toss the balls into coconut flakes to coat.

5 - For coloured coconut flakes, mix a few drops of colouring into some coconut and mix well. 

6 - Place in paper cases and chill till ready to serve.

For more cake truffles ideas, check out my previous posts:

  

Christmas Truffles

Cake truffles, made for some very special friends.

* Glenfiddich Chocolate & Peanut
* Green Tea White Chocolate & Coconut

Recipe can be found here.
For the green tea truffles, just use green tea cake crumbs instead of chocolate, and replace choc with white choc.

Cake Truffles

Dinner parties are the perfect excuse reason for making a big batch of cake truffles. It's easy, fun, and you don't even need to use your mixer or oven. 

Using the recipe from my Amarula Truffles, I just modified it for this batch. I made half for under-18s and half for above-18s. The half for above-18s had Glenfiddich Scotch Whisky instead of Amarula. And this time round, I used dessicated coconut, ground peanuts, and rainbow sprinkles for the coating. 

Amarula Truffles

Have you ever baked something that didn't quite turn out looking the way you had hoped?

Well, a week ago I made a batch of chocolate cupcakes. I think the temperature was too high and it became volcanoes! Yes - volcanoes! The top crusted too soon and the liquid centres started oozing out of the crust, forming odd looking lumps around the cake. It was awful, just awful. The taste was good, but it was just not presentable enough as cupcakes. 

So I set it aside, not wanting to waste the whole batch. I googled "leftover cake recipes" and found some ideas on how to use cake crumbs. So in to the food processor went the cupcakes, and out came a load of cake crumbs. In to the freezer it went till today...

To make about 20 truffles:
80-120g plain chocolate (according to preference)
small knob of butter
2 tbs amarula
130g cake crumbs
20g ground nuts (peanuts, almonds, walnuts, etc)
cocoa powder and/or ground nuts (for coating)


You don't really have to be accurate with these ingredients. Just rough estimates will do. 

Making the truffles:

1 - Melt the chocolate and butter bain marie. Stir till smooth, then remove from heat. 

2 - Add amarula and mix well.

3 - Stir in cake crumbs and nuts and mix well. Add a little extra amarula if the mixture is too stiff.

4 - Roll mixture into small balls and place them on a sheet of baking paper. Chill in the fridge till firm.

5 - Roll the balls in cocoa powder or ground nuts till well coated. 

6 - Place in paper cases and chill till ready to serve.