I love beautiful, well-made, hand rolled, chocolate truffles. There is something intensely stunning about the experience and you steal away into a dream land for just a moment, where nothing is in your brain but the momentary cocoa, melty bliss.
Enough talk. Recipe. Now. Good gift. Do make.
Chilli Chocolate Truffles
250g good-quality dark chocolate, chopped
1/3 cup (80ml) thickened cream
1/2 tsp ground chilli
Little plateful of cinnamon and caster sugar in 1:2 ratio, for rolling
Place the chocolate and the cream into a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water, making sure it doesn’t touch the water, and stir often until melted. Carefully remove the bowl and stir in the chilli before covering and placing in the fridge, stirring occasionally, for 2 hours or until firm enough to handle.
Line a baking tray with baking paper, and roll heaped teaspoonfuls of the mixture into balls and place on the tray. Place balls in the fridge until firm. Once chilled, roll the balls quickly in your hands to smooth the surface, then roll in the cinnamon sugar and place in truffle cups (like muffin cases, but smaller). I get fancy ones every year from Dubai’s Global Village, in the Egyptian pavilion, by the main nut roasting guy. You’ll know it when you see it. If you’re feeling brave, you might also melt some chocolate, and dip the truffles in that instead of rolling in cinnamon. That’s totally hard core.
Chilli AND chocolate in one awesome truffleicious dish!? I think I love you a little. Hahaha. Nice one, thanks for sharing
Thanks for looking! I can’t ever stop at one of these though – even though I should!
Love chilli and chocolate as a combo…once had this chocolate-chilli dessert in seattle, a huge block of high quality chocolate, lying in a bed of burnt meringue, caramel sauce, almonds and chilli…heaven!! that’s too much of a pain to recreate, but I’m glad your truffle recipe came in with the same flavours I love!
Omg. I want what you had. Right now. What an experience!
mmmmm…..truffles *dies and goes to heaven*
So, so awesome.
I just wanted to let you know that my niece and I had fun making these for Christmas. We also loved watching people’s faces when they realised they contained the delicious hint of chili. Thank you for the recipe.
That’s an awesome Christmas present for me knowing it wqs such fun for you! Thank you for sharing!
Also, forgot to mention that we rolled some of them in the cinnamon and sugar mixture and some in raspberry powder.
Hi princess kristy,
thnx 4 posting the recipe, we loved it!
me and mum had a go at it, came out great but my dad came along and insisted i add more chilli. after doin so, our mouths burned! so everyone, stick to the recipe, it’s a real treat!!!
thnx again, imaani
My husband spoiled my first batch by saying exactly the same thing Imaani! They’re sneaky like that! I’m so glad that you had a great time making them