RECIPE: Christmas Chocolate Truffles - Sophia's (Chapter 22)
Christmas is coming up, and these truffles of Sophia's make a great homemade Christmas present:
Ingredients:
1 packet superwine biscuits
200g dried apricots, finely diced
25g butter
1/2 cup chocolate melts or pieces
4 tablespoons cocoa
2 tablespoons brandy
1/3 tin condensed milk
shreded coconut for rolling truffle balls in
Method:
Crush biscuits in the blender until they are coarse powder (or with a rolling pin in a bag!). Add diced apricots.
Melt butter and chocolate melts in a separate dish. Add cocoa, brandy and condensed milk.
Pour the wet mixture into the dry biscuit mixture and stir.
Get your hands into the mixture... and roll out truffle balls in your hands.
Pour dhreded coconut onto a plate and roll your balls through so that they are coated in coconut.
Enjoy!
Photo by: Judit Klein, Source: Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic