Tiramisu Truffles

"Your eyes could make the moon jealous" - Kelsea Ballerini

For another year I've decided to make my end of the year gift to my fellow teachers a nice personalized box of homemade chocolates. I figure I can get away with this since I'm at a new school this year. Instead of boxes I also used cute little bags with a window in front that allows viewing of the chocolates. I found these Spritz bags in the party section at target.

This year each box contained a combination of chocolate truffles (left), tiramisu truffles (middle), and hazelnut truffles (right). They were a huge hit!

Here are 3 reasons I love to make truffles as gifts:

1. They are very easy, if slightly time consuming.

2. You can invent your own flavor combinations very easily

3. People are super impressed by them

Tiramisu Truffles

Ingredients:

• vanilla cookies (I used Nilla wafers)

• 1 teaspoon instant coffee (more if you like the coffee flavor which I don't)

• 1 8 oz package cream cheese, softened

• 2/3 cup white baking chocolate

• 1/4 cup semisweet baking chocolate (optional, for decoration)

Instructions:

1. Place vanilla cookies in food processor and pulse until completely ground.

2. Pour ground cookies into bowl of a stand mixer. Add cream cheese and mx until completely combined. Add coffee and continue to mix until incorporated.

3. At this point, you can place the truffle dough into the fridge for a short time to allow it to hold together before forming balls, but it is not necessary

4. Using a melon baller or teaspoon, scoop small, even amounts of tiramisu dough and roll into balls, placing them on parchment lined cookie sheet

5. Place cookie sheet in fridge to allow balls to harden

6. Temper or melt your white baking chocolate*

7. Remove dough balls from the fridge and carefully use a spoon to dip each in chocolate. Allow the excess to drip off before placing back on parchment paper.

8. Temper or melt your garnishing chocolate and drizzle over the truffles**

9. Refrigerate for at least 2 hours. These will need to be kept refrigerated when not being eaten, which is usually not a problem

*When I'm lazy, which is often, I simply buy the Bakers baking squares and melt the chocolate in the microwave adding a small amount of oil midway through to thin the chocolate.

** dip a spoon in the chocolate, fully coating it. Hold this spoon about 6 inches above the cookie sheet and begin making a wide and quick back and forth motion allowing zig zags of the chocolate to drip onto the truffles

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