Chocolate crazy!

I love chocolate, I mean who doesn’t? 

Recently Hershey took the cocoa butter out of most of their products. They replaced cocoa butter with vegetable oil! People have been complaining there is not the same chocolate flavor or texture. I am not the kind of person to pick up a chocolate bar as a snack so this isn’t the end of the world for me but for some chocolate lovers out there they need their fix of delicious chocolate now!

I made dark chocolate truffles. I started by taking 1 cup of heavy whipping cream and bringing it to a slight simmer in a small saucepan. In a regular stainless steal bowl I put 16 oz. of bitter sweet and dark chocolate. When making truffles using good chocolate is key, I got Ghirardelli chips but a chunk of better quality chocolate would be better. Once the cream came to a simmer I poured it over the chocolate and stirred until everything was smooth and chocolaty, this amazing mixture is calls a ganache.

The proportion is 8 oz. of chocolate to ½ cup of cream. 

  

I let the ganache cool in a glass container about an inch deep. After it cooled for about 2 hours the ganache is not rock solid put hard, a buttery consistency. Using a small ice cream scoop I made them into balls and coated the outside with cocoa powder. Make sure to work fast while they are in your hands because it melts quickly.

Here are my finished products!

Just a warning, when you bite into these bad boys it is bitter, then after that you get the wonderful dark chocolate ganache. I took these to school and got some request for milk chocolate, so next I am making the ganache with milk chocolate and coating the outside with melted chocolate and then cocoa powder. If you like this idea make the ganache into your little balls and then put them back in the fridge for an hour to let them cool again, THEN into the melted chocolate.

Hope you enjoyed J