Melting middle truffles
- ½ 450g/1lb jar dulce de leche caramel toffee
- 100g dark chocolate (70% cocoa), chopped
- 2 x 200g/7oz bars milk chocolate, chopped
- 142ml pot double cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- about 85g/3oz cocoa powder, to coat
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Prep: 45 mins
Cook: 5 mins
Plus cooling and freezing
Easy
Makes 40
- Make
the middles first. Heat the Dulce de Leche in a pan for 1 min until
warmed and runny, then stir
in the chopped dark chocolate and leave to melt. Stir until smooth.
Cover a dinner plate with cling film, oil the cling film well, then tip
the mix onto
it. Cool, then freeze for 2 hrs or until very firm.
- Put
the milk chocolate into a bowl. Bring the cream to the boil in another
pan, then pour it over the chocolate. Leave for 2 mins, then add the
vanilla and stir until smooth.
Cool, then chill until set.
- Peel
the caramel from the cling film, then snip into thumbnail-size pieces;
wet kitchen scissors work best.
Spread cocoa powder over a large baking tray. Take a heaped tsp of the
truffle mix then, with cocoa-dusted hands, poke in a caramel chunk.
Squash the mix around the caramel
to seal, then roll into a ball. Put onto the tray, then shake to coat in
the cocoa. Repeat with the rest of the mix, then freeze, or chill if
making less than
3 days ahead.
