Hazelnut Truffles

Calling these mere hazelnut truffles doesn’t quite cut it.

It doesn’t even begin to describe how the inside of each beauty is a melt in your mouth smooth chocolate experience, flavored with a hazelnut liqueur. The outside crunch of toasted hazelnuts adds a texture that makes these perfect.

I am crazy about hazelnuts and a smooth hazelnut chocolate tops my list.

These are essentially a ganache inside, which is why they are so creamy and real truffle like.

This is now my go-to truffle recipe.

Ingredients Needed:

1 box of semi-sweet chocolate squares (8 little packages) or 8 oz of your chocolate of choice
3/4 cup of whipping cream
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp Frangelico liqueur
3/4 cup of roasted hazelnuts finely chopped by food processor

Chop up your chocolate into tiny pieces and place into a glass bowl.

Take your 3/4 cup of whipping cream and put into a small pot with the butter. Watching it constantly and stirring it constantly, bring the cream and the butter to a boil.

Once it’s boiling, pour it over the chocolate bits in the glass bowl.

Take a whisk and mix until all the chocolate is melted in and the mixture is smooth.

Mmmm Frangelico.

I discovered this stuff mixed with hot chocolate is amazingly tasty.

Too tasty.

I bought this to make truffles and had to make them before Mr Magpie and I drank it all with our nightly hot chocolate.

Add in two tablespoons and mix until creamy.

And at a mere two tablespoons, that leaves a lot for hot chocolates!

Cover and refrigerate, overnight is best, but a few hours will suffice.

Once the mixture is hardened, it’s time to create the little balls.

This is messy, I can’t even sugar coat it. Melon ballers don’t work, there is no trick that I can come up with other than using your hands.

Your hands will get horribly, horribly chocolate coated.

You have been warned.

Take a rounded teaspoonful and make into a ball-ish shape. I say “ish”. They can slightly be reshaped after being covered in the hazelnuts once you have clean hands.

This will make 24 nicely sized truffles.

Twenty four bites of hazelnut heaven.

You know what I am going to do with my next batch?

Stick a whole toasted hazelnut right in the glorious middle.

Holy hot dang people. That is a new level of food bliss right there.