Dark rhum chocolate truffles
Chocolate certainly feels like the queen of pastry. We use it in so many applications in pastry that sometimes is quite hard to picture the pastry world without it. That being said, chocolate tends to be a support ingredient, much like vanilla, thus it rarely shines on its own. So I like to give it the chance to do so from time to time at least. And the dark rhum chocolate truffles are perfect for this! Chocolate is the star of this recipe and the dark rhum only enhances its flavors, creating a dessert that melts in your mouth into a chocolate explosion with rhum and lemon notes. The recipe is quite simple, but the flavors are bold!
The inspiration of these truffles were a Romanian dessert called Amandina which contains plenty of chocolate, dark rhum and a touch of lemon zest. It is a dessert loved by many, me included. It most definitely marked my childhood as it was my go-to dessert every time we had a sweet treat like this.
Dark rhum chocolate truffles
Ingredients
- 175 g dark chocolate 70%
- 140 g heavy cream
- 10 g inverted sugar/honey
- 6 g lemon zest
- 30 g butter (room temperature)
- 30 g dark rhum
- + 100g extra dark chocolate (melted)
Instructions
- Start by melting the chocolate in the microwave or over a hot water bath.
- In a cooking pot, heat up the cream with the inverted sugar or honey and lemon zest.
- Cover with plastic wrap once hot and leave to infuse for 10 minutes.
- Strain over the melted dark chocolate.
- Blend well with a hand blender, adding the butter as well.
- Cover with plastic wrap on the surface and place in the fridge for 1-2 hours or until the ganache is firm enough to shape it into truffles.
- Take pieces of ganache and roll it into truffles. If you want, you can scale the ganache to make sure all the truffles are equal in the end.
- Using gloves, dip each truffle into melted chocolate and then quickly roll it through cocoa powder.
- Keep them in the fridge in an airtight container and bring them to room temperature 10 minutes before serving.
Equipment
- Kitchen scale
- Hand blender
- Cooking stove
- Fridge
- Baking paper
- Spatulas
- Cooking pot
- Bowls
- Sieve
