Chocolate Truffles

During Christmas, a close friend of my mother gave us chocolate truffles as a present. It wasn't the first time I ate truffles. In fact it was probably the second or third time. But it wasn't until now I was able to make them. With that said I treaded on a journey to find the exact recipe. This isn't exactly what I had eaten but it is worth remembering. Plus, these were my first attempt to making my own chocolate.

Chocolate Truffles

1 8 ounce package of cream cheese
3 cups semisweet chocolate
3 cups confectioners sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract

Take the cream cheese and cream it until smooth with a mixer. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler and incorporate this into the cream cheese. Slowly pour in the confectioners sugar and the vanilla extract. Cover chocolate and refrigerate for one hour to make sure it's manageble. But let me tell you, it wasn't a hassle even if I was working with it for a good thirty minutes. Once, that's good, with your hands, form little balls and coat them with crushed nuts or cocoa powder. Personally this was really sweet so I made super small, literally one/two bite pieces and coated them in three batches of different ingredients. I used crushed cashews, crushed almond cinnamon and cocoa powder. I liked the cocoa powder the most because it competed witht he sweetness of the chocolate.

By the way, this is a fun activity to do with children. I did it with my younger brothers and they loved it.

Enjoy!