Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Super Easy Homemade Truffles



It's the time of year to make homemade goodies. We haven't made nearly as many as usual due to the extreme busyness of this year, but last year I made truffles for the first time... and this year, I made them again and learned more... and they turned out better. I figure I will get better each year. :)





The dough was pretty easy to make... I mixed it up and then put it into the refrigerator for a couple of days. One evening when the guys were gone and my girls and my mom were making Christmas cookies, I made the truffles. Actually, I took the dough out of the fridge a few hours before I made these.  I forgot to get a picture until this was all of the dough I had left. :(  This is a Corelle cereal bowl and it was heaped up full.


I rolled the dough into balls and then rolled them in some coating.... cocoa, crushed candy canes, mini chocolate chips, Heath toffee chips ..... or I left them plain like the two shown above.... and then I dipped them in melted almond bark. Lots of choices.

These are rolled in crushed candy canes and they tasted REALLY good. One thing I did note; however, is that when these were stored in a tin, they became sticky. I will be working to solve that problem before the next time.
These are truffles that were rolled in just plain cocoa.

Truffle Dough:
1-8 oz package cream cheese, soft
3 c. pwd sugar, sifted
3 c. semi sweet choc chips,melted
1 1/2 tsp vanilla.

Cream cream cheese and sugar until smooth, add the rest and stir until no streaks remain. Chill for 1 hour, then form into balls and coat or dip. Put on waxed paper or parchment paper to set, then store in sealed containers.

These were dipped in melted white almond bark. Then I sprinkled colored  sugar on the tops before the coating hardened.

I found that the truffles I planned to dip were better when made a little smaller... otherwise we had some pretty large truffles. :)


These were rolled in Heath bar and milk chocolate pieces. Yum, they were really good. :) After these were packed into the metal tin for a day, these also became sticky.


More of the dipped truffles with colored red sugar.

 The picture below shows more dipped chocolates... some with blue sprinkles.... and also some Ritz crackers that were dipped in the chocolate.

Then, I made some peanut butter mix and made balls and dipped those.... then sprinkled the Heath toffee and milk chocolate bits on top... these were the favorite for some of us. :)

The mixture was :
1/2 c butter, melted
1 1/4 c graham cracker crumbs
3/4 c peanut butter
1 c powdered sugar
   Mix all of these together. Chill, then form into balls. Dip in melted chocolate. Cool/dry on wax paper or parchment paper. Store between wax paper in a metal tin or other container.

These were not hard to make and changing the decorations made it much more interesting on the plate. If I had more time, I would have also changed things more.... maybe put mint flavoring in the truffle dough or the chocolate coating of some,  tuck a cherry inside the  truffle dough, top with coconut, etc, etc.  There are many possibilities.


The crackers were dipped because we had melted chocolate left and we ran out of truffles or peanut butter mixture balls..... and the crackers tasted great and also looked festive.

We haven't done much holiday cooking this year, but this project was pretty popular with the family.


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15 comments:

  1. Oh my goodness, these looks absolutely fabulous! So much for New Year's Resolutions ;)

    Thank you for sharing these chocolate beauties on the Art of Home-Making Mondays this week!

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    1. They are really good....and I am planning to make the peanut butter balls dipped in chocolate today. Hmmm.... but even after all of the holiday goodies, we still want to take a few more plates of things to people. My family loves them, so need to get the plates out of the house rather quickly. :)

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    2. Too bad you aren't my neighbor, I would take them off your hands :)

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  2. I am sure this yumminess was received with a smile. Thank you for sharing at the Thursday Favorite Things blog hop xo

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    1. They were.... :) I was glad to join your blog hop and will plan to return... thank you. :)

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  3. These look absolutely mouth watering! Thanks for linking up with "Try a New Recipe Tuesday." I can't wait to ssee what you'll share this week. http://our4kiddos.blogspot.com/2015/01/try-new-recipe-tuesday-january-13.html

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    1. Thank you! Nice to see you... and thank you for the blog party each week. :)

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  4. Those look soooo good! Maybe I can convince my boys to make some for Valentine's Day! Thank you for linking up to the Country Fair Blog party, so I could see these mouth watering post!

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    1. Thank you! I am thinking we may make some also....now, my boys would LOVE to make some... because as you know, they will NEED to test them. :) Thank you for visiting.

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  5. So many delicious and yummy truffles! Great job and so glad you shared!

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    1. Mmmmm... seems like time to make them again. :) Thank you for visiting.

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  6. They look super yummy! I saved a recipe from a magazine to try them, but didn't get around to it this year. Hopefully next Christmas. Thanks for sharing with SYC.
    hugs,
    Jann

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    1. I was surprised to be able to make something that seemed so very difficult, and to find that it was actually do-able. I hope you get to try to make some also.

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  7. Your truffles look delicious, and so easy to make. I'm sure my grandchildren would have fun rolling them in the coatings.

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    1. It does sound like a fun activity to do with your grandchildren. :) Making great memories. Thank you for visiting.

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