Rum Truffles

[sponsored] This recipe for rich chocolate and rum truffles made with Plugrá^® European-Style Butter from Chef Jacquy Pfeiffer of The French Pastry School, in Chicago.

MAKES: About 30 truffles

PREP TIME: 2 hours

INGREDIENTS

155 g (or ⅔ cup) Fresh heavy cream

5g (or ½ tsp) Nielsen-Massey bourbon vanilla paste

200g (or 1 ⅛ cup) Finely chopped dark chocolate couverture 64%

62.5g (or ⅓ cup) Plugrá® European-Style Butter, softened

10g (or 1 tsp) Honey

20g (or 2 tbsp) Dark rum

453.6g (or 2 ⅔ cups) Cocoa powder

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Bring the cream and vanilla paste to a simmer.

2. Warm up the chocolate for one minute at 50% in a microwave

3. Pour the hot cream over the semi melted chocolate couverture.

4. Homogenize the mixture with a whisk starting from the center and working towards the sides.

5. Add the soft butter and honey.

6. Add the rum and pour the mixture on a sheet tray lined with parchment paper, cover with plastic wrap.

7. Let the mixture set for 2 hours in a cool place.

8. Pipe 1" bulbs of the ganache on a sheet pan lined with a parchment paper.

9. Let set overnight in a cool room.

10. Wear latex gloves, and shape the truffles with your hands until they look like a perfect ball.

11. Roll the truffles in dark chocolate couverture that was melted to 89°F. Let the truffles set in a cool room and then dip them again in dark chocolate couverture warmed up to 89°F; roll them in cocoa powder.

12. Do not move them and let them set in a cool place overnight.

13. Sift the excess cocoa powder.

Ratings & Reviews (3)

by EGKELLY1248 on 2012-11-30

Please put ingredients into standard American equivalents

by TEEINVA on 2012-11-30

These Rum Truffles sound amazing! Want to make these for gift boxes, but I am having trouble with the conversion - 1/4 oz of honey doesn't sound right, does it? Can someone PLEASE provide an accurate conversion into Tablespoons, Ounces, Cups etc...? Important to get it right for gift giving! Please and Thank You :-)

by KITCHENGODESS on 2012-12-04

Sounds delicious, but can you PLEASE convert the mesaurements for thos eof us in the U.S.?

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