Every day I'm truffle-ing

What a funny joke.

Super Rich Chocolate Truffles

• 200g dark chocolate broken up
• Same weight of double cream (about a medium sized tub)
• 40g butter
• Cocoa powder

Heat cream till it just starts to boil and pour it over the butter and chocolate and mix really well until it's silky smooth. Pop it in the freezer for a couple of hours until it sets. Throw some cocoa powder over your work surface and pull out a bit of the ganache with your finger tips (it will still be really melty) and drop it into the cocoa powder. Roll the ganache around in the cocoa until it forms a ball - repeat with the rest of the mixture. So easy! These little chocolaty things are definitely best kept in the fridge. 

Ganache is good

These are just basic vanilla cupcakes (the recipe is in an earlier post here) but with a silky smooth dark chocolate ganache on top, plus they're in leopard print cases - FAB.

Dark Chocolate Ganache

• 200g dark chocolate broken up into chunks 
• 300ml double cream 

Yep that's it! All you do is heat the milk in a pan until it's boiling - keep mixing because it'll burn on the bottom of the pan. Once the milk has just started to boil tip it over the chocolate (in a separate bowl) and mix until all the chocolate has melted, then stick it in the fridge for a few hours until it's set a little - I usually use the freezer because I am really impatient. Squash into a piping bag and pipe it over your cupcakes, decorate with whatever, I used little white chocolate stars but I think a raspberry stuck on top would look (and taste) really good.