The Best Chocolate Truffles appeared in May.
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Brandy Truffles
8ozs Plain Chocolate
1 tablespoon Condensed Milk
2ozs Butter
2 teaspoons Instant Coffee
2 teaspoons Brandy
8ozs Icing Sugar, sifted
3ozs plain Chocolate Vermicelli
Put chocolate into a bowl and place over a pan of boiling water.Do not let the water touch the bottom of the bowl.When the chocolate has melted stir in the condensed milk, butter, coffee, brandy and icing sugar.Form teaspoons of the mixture into balls and roll each in vermicelli.Place on baking parchment and leave to set overnight.
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Chocolate Covered Orange Balls
Yield: Enough for a sweet shop!
8ozs Icing/confectioners’ sugar
6ozs vanilla wafers, crushed
½ cup chopped walnuts
2ozs butter
3ozs real orange juice
12ozs milk chocolate, melted
In a large bowl, combine the sugar, vanilla wafers, walnuts, butter and orange juice. Mix well and shape into 1 inch round balls; allow to dry for 1 hour.
Place chocolate in in a bowl over a pan of hot water, do not allow to come in contact with the water. Stir frequently over medium heat until melted. Dip balls into melted chocolate and place in decorative paper cups.
Seriously this quantity made 82 sweets.
Oh no—I gained half a stone just READING that!
They’re irresistible even on screen.
Welcome Susan to the party!
My mother always told us that a little of what we fancied, did us good!
Grannymar,
Remember when Roy said I had cooked enough rice to feed Ho Chi Min’s Army?
Well, I just made these sweets and now I can give them dessert…….
Nancy come in and pull up a chair! We missed your fun!
Oh so very very naughty.
Slurp!
Lottie,
Only if you eat them all in one go! 😉
@GM- That’s precisely the problem m’dear!
Chocolate covered orange balls???????
Grannymar …. what goes through that mind of yours?????????
@Paddy Bloggit – Shhh.Don’t go there.
Tee he he
@Paddy B – They are very tasty! 🙄 Remember, I have lived in ‘Orange’ country for over thurty years!
@Lottie – Tee he he 😉
I missed this party 🙁
Can we have another one next Monday?
Please Grannymar
Steph,
Emmmm! I’ll think about it! 😉
It’s great to touch the green, green grass of home ….. just change the words of the song to orange balls GM and you’re on a winner!
Paddy B,
Are we doing a duet? If we hurry up it might make No.1 for Christmas 🙄
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