Total Preparation Time: Less than 15 minutes
Ingredients: Bean & Legume
Actual Cooking Time: No Cooking Required
Number of Servings: 8
Origin: American
Special Features: Quick to Prepare (under 30 minutes)
Simple (6 ingredients or less)
Kids can help make it
Kids can help make it
Make Ahead
Vegetarian
Meal Type: Appetizers
Snack
Dessert
Ingredients
125gms/4 oz Butter
3 tsp Cocoa powder
250 Gms Icing Sugar/Powdered Sugar
1/2 tsp Flavored essence (e.g.: vanilla, raspberry, mint, strawberry)
Own choice chopped: nuts, dried fruit - sultanas, raisins, apricots, ginger, chocolate chips
2 cups Finely shredded coconut - for rolling balls in
3 cups Chocolate drops for dipping
Preparation
CREAM the butter with the essence, till pale in colour. BEAT in cocoa powder, ADDING a little more if you want the mixture a darker colour. ADD the Iceing Sugar/powdered sugar, a 1/4 of a cup at a time till you get the mixture to the stiffness that you like. Then ADD what ever fruit and nut combination you want.
TASTE for flavour and ADD more essence if needed.
ROLL into teaspoon size balls, in the coconut and leave to go firm. To chocolate dip the truffels, FREEZE the coconut covered balls and then DIP them in chocolate.
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