White Chocolate Truffles

How to make white chocolate truffles recipe with a creamy texture and delicious white chocolate taste. This recipe is very quick and easy to make at home, as a gift for the holidays or just for fun.

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Learn how to easily make these little chocolates at home with this delicious recipe for white chocolate truffles covered with a chocolate coating.

Homemade truffles are small creamy and very tasty chocolates mainly made of a ganache, a mixture of baking chocolate chips and heavy cream or butter can be added for a creamier texture.

As in this version, the truffles can be made with all types of chocolate, dark chocolate, milk chocolate and as here with white chocolate chips.

White chocolate truffles are flavored with vanilla, but you can easily add additional flavorings such as orange peel, lemon zest, or give it more texture by adding crushed nuts, shredded coconut etc.

This recipe is delicious for all white chocolate lovers, they are perfect to give as gifts during the holidays or simply to treat yourself.

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Ingredients and substitutions

White truffles

• White chocolate: Use quality baking white chocolate bars, white chocolate chips with a high percentage of cocoa butter, such as ivory chocolate for a less sweet taste.
• heavy cream: Full fat heavy cream with 30% fat.
• Butter: Optional unsalted butter adds a creamier texture.
• Vanilla and salt: Essential to bring out all the flavors in this basic recipe. You can also add flavourings to the white chocolate, such as lemon extract, orange peel or a few drops of water-soluble chocolate food coloring.

Chocolate coating :

• Chocolate: White chocolate chips and semi-sweet chocolate chips to temper if possible to have a shiny and crunchy shell. You can also use a white candy coating directly with white chocolate candy metls.
• Decoration: Sprinkle with fleur de sel, chopped nuts, sugar pearls, grated coconut, crushed peppermints

You will find the quantities of the ingredients and the complete instructions in the recipe card at the end of the page.

How to make Homemade White Chocolate Truffles

1 - Make the ganache

1. Chop the white chocolate chips finely with a knife and place in a large bowl.
2. Add the heavy cream, butter, vanilla and salt.
3. Heat in a double boiler over medium heat in a saucepan containing a little water and stir until the mixture is smooth and slightly thick.
4. Cover the white chocolate mixture with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for about 2 hours.

Tip: To melt in the microwave, heat in 1-minute increments on low power until the chocolate is completely melted.

2 - Shape the balls

1. When the ganache is completely cooled, form balls of dough and roll them quickly between the palms of your hands (they will be a little sticky).
2. Place them back in the fridge for a few minutes before rolling them again to form round balls.
3. Then place in the fridge for another 20 minutes while preparing the chocolate coating.

Tip: Use a small ice cream scoop to scoop out the ganache and have balls of the same size. You can put powdered sugar in your hands to roll the balls and prevent them from sticking too much.

3 - Chocolate Coating

1. Melt the white chocolate in a double boiler and if possible temper the chocolate using a candy thermometer.
2. Place the melted chocolate in a small deep bowl.
3. Prick a white chocolate truffle with a toothpick and dip it into the melted chocolate.
4. Shake off excess melted white chocolate, then place the white chocolate truffles on a sheet of parchment paper.
5. Twist the toothpick with your fingertips before gently lifting it out of the truffle.
6. Allow truffles to cool completely before adding more dark chocolate with a piping bag.

Tip: To temper the chocolate and have shiny, solid shells, follow this temperature curve: Melt at 45°C, then cool to 27°C and heat again at 30°C to use.

Note: to replace the chocolate coating you can roll the truffles directly in cocoa powder, grated coconut or chopped nuts.

How to store truffles

At room temperature: Homemade white chocolate truffles can be stored at room temperature for up to two weeks, placed in an airtight container box with an airtight lid or in a glass jar.

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• Hot chocolate bombs
• Coconut balls

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