Chocolate Truffles are a must make recipe for any chocolate lover. This Easy Chocolate Truffles Recipe is made with only 5 ingredients and has a unique and amazing flavor. If you’ve wondered how to make chocolate truffles, this recipe is for you. Softer than fudge, bite-sized, and utterly perfect, you simply can’t miss these homemade truffles.
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Chocolate Truffles
If you love chocolate as much as I do, then this easy chocolate truffles recipe is about to change your life! Learn how to make chocolate truffles at home, so you can have a special treat anytime.
This Chocolate Truffle Recipe is everything I want in a dessert. It’s EASY, it’s small enough to slip by as guilt-free, and it doesn’t require any baking!
I love that you can make these homemade truffles in almost any flavor you can dream up and that they are 100% foolproof. These easy Chocolate Truffles are the perfect sweet treat to make for your sweetie as a Valentine’s Day treat!
They’re also great for a crowd at Christmas…but let’s be honest, they’re pretty awesome year-round, and I encourage you to make them for no reason at all. Sometimes we just need a little chocolate in our lives!
Indulge in homemade chocolate truffles any time. Whether it’s a special occasion or just a regular old Monday, you deserve this chocolatey treat!
What is a Chocolate Truffle?
Chocolate Truffles are a type of chocolate confection made with a ganache (cream and melted chocolate) center and coated with whatever you choose.
Traditionally, chocolate truffles are coated in things like cocoa powder and chopped nuts, but the sky is the limit! You can coat them with whatever you want, even making each one unique.
The reason they’re called chocolate truffles is because they resemble truffle mushrooms. But don’t worry, there are no mushrooms in these tasty little chocolate treats.
Easy Dessert Recipe
I never thought I’d be making chocolates at home. I mean, baking is intimidating enough; the idea of making fancy chocolate you typically buy at a specialty shop?
That seemed a bit crazy to me. But this EASY chocolate truffles recipe has changed my mind. This recipe is actually much easier than baking!
Sure, we’re not literally making chocolate. I’ll definitely leave that to the chocolatiers of the world. But I am so happy that I can now make my own chocolate treats with these homemade truffles.
Those Valentine’s Day chocolates are going to feel way more special when you make them yourself (or casually send this recipe to your significant other so THEY can make them for YOU).
How to Make Chocolate Truffles
My favorite thing about this chocolate truffle recipe is the fact that you can make every single one unique if you want to. Add whatever toppings/coating you prefer and have fun with it.
You can roll in sprinkles, chopped nuts, cocoa powder, coconut flakes, chocolate shavings, anything.
You can also add in different flavor extracts to really change things up. I made this batch with orange liqueur, but next time I plan to use strawberry extract. Chocolate Covered Strawberry Truffles, anyone?
Step by Step Instructions:
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- Chop up the chocolate and place the pieces in a heat-safe bowl.
- Heat up the heavy cream on the stove, just until it starts to boil. Then pour it through a fine-mesh sieve, into the bowl of chocolate.
- Whisk the cream and chocolate together until melted and smooth, then stir in the vanilla extract (and liqueur if using).
- Place the chocolate in the refrigerator for about an hour.
- Spoon balls of the chocolate, and roll them into shape, then roll them into your preferred toppings.
You can keep these in the refrigerator. Be sure to store in an airtight container.
Storing Instructions
These chocolate truffles will keep for 3-5 days on your counter in an airtight container. Or keep them in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
I think they are best served at room temperature (so they get just a little bit soft and melty), but you can keep them cool until about an hour before you’re ready to serve, and then take them out of the refrigerator. I cannot wait for you to try these!
Easy Chocolate Dessert Recipes
This easy chocolate truffle recipe is just one of many delicious chocolate dessert recipes here on the site. I’m a big chocolate lover, so I’ll take it in any form I can get.
These homemade truffles are just amazing! But chocolate cakes, pies, and cookies are welcome around here too.
More Chocolate Desserts
These Chocolate Truffles are just one of our favorite chocolaty desserts. After you devour these, be sure to check out some of our other go-tos.
I hope you love this recipe as much as we do. These Chocolate Truffles are a must-make for any chocolate lover. They’re just too easy not to try. Get ready to indulge in chocolatey decadence. SO YUM!
If you love these chocolate truffles be sure to upload a photo in the comment section below or leave a rating. Hope you enjoy!
Chocolate Truffles Recipe
Equipment
- Kitchen Scale (optional)
Ingredients
- ½ pound bittersweet chocolate 227 grams (8 ounces)
- ½ pound semisweet chocolate 227 grams (8 ounces)
- 1 cup heavy cream 227 grams
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract 2 grams
- 2 tablespoons Orange Liqueur (Grand Marnier) 28 grams, optional (SEE NOTE)
Optional Garnishes for Rolling
- Sprinkles
- Chocolate shavings
- Powdered Sugar
- Cocoa Powder
- Chopped Nuts
Instructions
- Chop the chocolate roughly and place it in a heat-safe bowl.½ pound bittersweet chocolate, ½ pound semisweet chocolate
- Heat the cream in a small saucepan set over medium-high heat just until it begins to come to a boil.1 cup heavy cream
- Remove cream from heat.
- Pour the cream through a fine-mesh sieve into the bowl with the chocolate.
- Whisk the cream and chocolate together until the chocolate is completely melted and smooth.
- Add the vanilla and liqueuer (if using). Continue Stirring.½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract, 2 tablespoons Orange Liqueur (Grand Marnier)
- Place in the refrigerator for 1 hour to stiffen.
- With 2 teaspoons, spoon round balls of the chocolate mixture onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Roll each ball of chocolate in your hands to roughly make a round ball.
- Roll in powdered sugar or whatever toppings you choose (sprinkles, chocolate, nuts, etc.)Sprinkles, Chocolate shavings, Powdered Sugar, Cocoa Powder, Chopped Nuts
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Becky’s Tips
- NOTE: The Orange Liqueur is optional. You can leave it out altogether or even use other flavors such as hazelnut or raspberry extract. Feel free to get creative!
- Be sure to use a good quality chocolate that you love!
- If your truffles still seem too soft after chilling, add in 1 tablespoon of melted butter or coconut oil, stir to combine, and let chill for an additional 30-60 minutes.
- Nutritional information does not include optional garnishes.
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Did you make this? Leave a comment!
I just made these and they are in the fridge chilling. Two things: the chocolate didn’t melt completely after I added the cream. No big deal, I nuked it carefully on the “melt chocolate” setting. It took about 4 minutes to melt and be completely smooth. Second, I used Kahlua instead of Cointreau, because I find that coffee enhances the chocolate and makes it more chocolatey. Third, because I didn’t have the very best chocolate at home, I added a few tablespoons of black cocoa. The mixture is just what I was looking for: deep, slightly bitter and definitely Chocolate. I don’t know if I’ll end up rolling these (in black cocoa, I think) or just eating them out of the bowl.
I am sure all of the recipes on this site are great, and I understand how the world works, but to pad and pad this recipe with chatter, so that I have to scroll down through 17 miles of ads and more ads before getting to the actual recipe, is rather cynical in my mind, I won’t be back!
I’m sorry to hear that! Thanks for letting me know.
There’s a jump to recipe link at the top of every page. This site’s print option is better than many other sites. I have so many of your recipes saved to my Evernote app.
So beautiful !
Thank you!
Hi Becky, LOVE your website! I have just one question about the truffle recipe. Instruction #6 says “Add the liqueur (if using), coffee, and vanilla.” But there is no coffee listed in in the ingredients. ?? Is that an option for the liqueur, like the other suggestions you list? Thank you.
I’m SO sorry, that was a typo. I’ve fixed the recipe. Thanks for your kind words and for letting me know!
So… I may have just pinned this and about 15 other recipes from your site. Obsessed. Not only do we have the same taste in blog design but also in food. I’m so thrilled to find you through the SITS comment love challenge.
That makes me so happy!! I followed you everywhere too…can’t wait to see your creations on my new feeds! Thanks for the sweet comments :)
I love chocolate truffles & this is a lovely recipe I can make with my niece as she loves baking etc. They look like a great gift idea for friends or to use when I need to fundraise for charity. Coping with the Big C – The Sits Comment Love Challenge
Okay, so, I was making chocolate covered strawberries, for the big day, but now, because of you, I am making these too. LUUUUUV this recipe. Pinned it and am bloglovin, Pinning, Facebooking, etc. you! Thank You! <3 www.sweetanddownlow.com #SITSblogging
I’d have to stop at just one!
These are to die for! I made some over the holidays with Baileys! http://thehousewifeintrainingfiles.com/skinny-boozy-truffles/
Too scary too have around as I will eat them all! I will have to try these next for a fun spin!
Your photographs are lovely!! Do you use lighting equipment? Also, I’m going to try to healthify this truffle recipe. Those look delish!
if you find a great way to healthify, I would love to hear about it!! would love to share on my fb wall. let me know! also, I usually use natural light, when I have to photograph at night I do have a light box that I recently got off amazon, really well priced. thanks so much for stopping by!!
Oh just read this comment…check out my truffles for a healthy spin. I made them with avocado!
http://thehousewifeintrainingfiles.com/skinny-boozy-truffles/
that is genius!!! I will have to try that! and adding baileys in place of the grand marnier would be DELISH. (honestly, I’d probably even like it better!) yum! hey I love your staging of pics…where did you get the wood board you take pictures on? I’ve been looking for something similar in light gray for what seems like years. really its probably just months. love it!