Chocolate truffles come in many different forms and styles. There are many specialty cook books in your local book store that will offer the most up to date, modern techniques in creating chocolate truffles. If there is a certain type you like from a store, you can also go there and ask for the recipe.
Truffles are a chocolate confection made from cocoa, cream and butter. They are relatively easy to make and taste delicious. Any good cookbook will have a variety of truffle recipes in the candy section of the book. There are also recipes available online at websites such as All Recipes or Food Network.
If I were going to look for a chocolate pudding recipe, the first place I would search would be on the Food Network website. That is a site that always has good recipes.
You can find a good recipe to make chocalte pecans on the following website: http://www.ehow.com/how_4858901_make-chocolate-pecan-candy.html. They have useful tips.
Bittersweet, semisweet, and dark chocolate make good truffle centers, while cocoa powder, dark chocolate powder, or unsweetened cocoa powder make great outside powder coverings for the truffles.
The type of mushroom The word 'truffles' can refer to this chocolate, but is more commonly used in reference to a kind of edible mushroom that only grows underground in the roots of certain trees. Pigs and dogs are used to find these mushrooms, which cannot be seen by humans in the groundThe chocolate Truffles are a kind of chocolate that were made in France. They are creamy on the inside.Truffles are chocolate little balls filled with either caramel, more chocolate, white, chocolate and more. They r really good!Truffles can also be edible body of fungi in the genus Tuber.
Hands down, the best chocolate truffles I have tasted have been those of Barkeater Chocolates, a small company in North Creek NY, the beautiful Adirondack Mountains. Some of the flavors are out of this world, and none I would ever think of looking for. I've had truffles from dozens of places so I consider myself quite versed in the subject!
One can find mint chocolate brownies recipe on websites such as Betty Crocker or Taste of Home. One can also find them on Job of Baking, All Recipes and BBC Good Food.
You need to buy truffles for your kids?I assume we're talking about the chocolate kind here, not the fungus that grows on the roots of trees. Which is good for you, because the chocolate ones are cheap, comparatively speaking.Lindt makes "Lindor" brand truffles, which you can get at Wal-Mart. It looks like a five ounce box (I'm not sure how many truffles that is) is about $3, and you can get them in white, milk, dark, or extra dark chocolate, as well as "Stracciatella", which is white chocolate with cocoa flakes (they look kind of like little balls of chocolate chip ice cream). They also have peppermint dark chocolate, vanilla white chocolate, hazelnut milk chocolate, and peanut butter milk chocolate listed online. Which of those your local Wal-Mart has I couldn't say.If you want to spend more on them, that's certainly possible too. Godiva sells boxes starting at $10 (four truffles) and going up from there.
There are many different recipes for hot chocolate but to make a silky, smooth cup of hot chocolate, it is essential to use block chocolate rather than powdered cocoa. Nigel Slater offers a very good recipe on The Guardian's 'Word of Mouth' blog which contains whole milk, grated dark and milk chocolate, a little cream and a little taster of cinnamon and salt.
Baking is a passion of mine. I have many sites that I use to find great recipes. The Nestle chocolate site, verybestbaking.com is a fantastic site to find baking recipes. There you can find the original tollhouse cookie recipe, brownie recipes, cheesecake recipes and so on.
Whether chocolate chips can be used in place of a chocolate bar depends entirely on the recipe. If the chocolate bar is broken or chopped up, and the chips are the same type of chocolate - milk, semi-sweet or bittersweet - then the chips probably would be a good substitute.
You can use any chocolate chip cookie recipe you choose and add no more than 1 cup coarsely chopped pecans at the time you mix in the chocolate chips. Mixing them in by hand is preferable.