Easy Truffles
Copyright Kaye Dooler
If you ever have any leftover cake crumbs, or you need a nice quick gift for someone then these are about as ideal as it gets. There's hardly any work to do in this recipe at all and yet they are so lovely. And they are very adaptable to whatever you want them for.
You'll Need:
Cake crumbs or 12pk fairy cakes from the supermarket - all crumbled up
Chocolate for melting, I find that 100g makes about 16 truffles
topping (chocolate, sprinkles, coconut, the options are endless)
mini muffin/truffle cases
Rum/Brandy if using
What to do:
Ok, you can do this is whatever kind of container you prefer but I melt my chocolate in the microwave so I used a plastic tub. If you're melting chocolate over the hob then you'll need a heatproof dish.
1a) If microwaving: place about 100g of chocolate in your tub and microwave on full for 30 seconds at a time until completely melted.
1b) If using the hob, place some water in a pan and bring to the boil, put chocolate in a heat proof dish and place on top of the pan, keep a close eye on it and stir until melted. Once melted remove from heat.
2) Bit by bit stir in your cake crumbs until quite firm - you probably won't use all of your cake crumbs at this stage so don't be worried if you have a lott leftover still. It gives you the choice of making different kinds of truffles. If you are wanting to make alcoholic truffles, this is where you would mix it in.
You'll Need:
Cake crumbs or 12pk fairy cakes from the supermarket - all crumbled up
Chocolate for melting, I find that 100g makes about 16 truffles
topping (chocolate, sprinkles, coconut, the options are endless)
mini muffin/truffle cases
Rum/Brandy if using
What to do:
Ok, you can do this is whatever kind of container you prefer but I melt my chocolate in the microwave so I used a plastic tub. If you're melting chocolate over the hob then you'll need a heatproof dish.
1a) If microwaving: place about 100g of chocolate in your tub and microwave on full for 30 seconds at a time until completely melted.
1b) If using the hob, place some water in a pan and bring to the boil, put chocolate in a heat proof dish and place on top of the pan, keep a close eye on it and stir until melted. Once melted remove from heat.
2) Bit by bit stir in your cake crumbs until quite firm - you probably won't use all of your cake crumbs at this stage so don't be worried if you have a lott leftover still. It gives you the choice of making different kinds of truffles. If you are wanting to make alcoholic truffles, this is where you would mix it in.
Copyright Kaye Dooler
3) Using your hands roll some of the mixture into a ping pong ball shape and drop into a truffle case. Repeat until all this mixture is truffled up.
4) To decorate, depending on how you're decorating, can be done straight after rolling them (before putting in cases) or it can be done an hour later when they've firmed a little more.
You could roll them in hundreds & thousands, or coconut, or chocolate strands, cocoa powder... If leaving to set then there are more decorating options open to you. You could:
- pour a little melted chocolate over and then pop some chosen topping over (cherry, chocolate shavings, flake pieces...)
- pour some thick icing over and make them look like mini Christmas puddings.
The choices go on and on...
And the best thing is, when you've done this bit - you can start again on your next batch of truffles until all your crumbs are used up.
This was another 'recipe' that was created by accident as I had accidentally overbaked a batch of cupcakes but I didn't want to waste them, so I crumbled them up when they had cooled and did this. Worked a treat.
I think I'll be serving these over the Christmas period dressed up as Christmas puddings. The kids will love them.
Thank you very much for reading,
Lots of Love
K x