Belgian Chocolates Truffles with Almonds
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Belgian Chocolate Truffles.
These Belgian Chocolates Truffles are basic chocolate truffles, no
flavours are added but an extra bite from almonds. This is how I always
ate the truffles when my grandma made them, personally I like them even
more basic without the almonds.
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Ingredients
* 4 3/8 ounce (125 gr) chocolate : grated
* 1 3/4 ounce (50 gr) butter
* 1 egg-yolk
* 2 5/8 ounce (75 gr) icing sugar (powder sugar)
* 1 ounce (30 gr) almonds
* extra cacao-powder and powder sugar to coat
Preparation
1. Melt the chocolate au-bain-marie : in a hot water bath
2. Beat the butter until it becomes creamy.
3. Stir under the butter the egg-yolk, sugar and chocolate. Mix well
4. Stir lastly the almonds in the mixture, mix well.
5. Let all cool down, until the chocolate mixture becomes stiff.
6. In a round glass (so you can see through what is happening...), add
a mixture of cacao powder and icing sugar. Make little balls from the
chocolate and swirl them around in the cacao-powder icing-sugar
mixture.
Enjoy,