Truffles: 50 Deliciously Decadent Homemade Chocolate Treats

by Dede Wilson

Smooth, rich, creamy, luxurious - everyone knows chocolate truffles are an indulgent confection, but you might be surprised to learn how easy they are to make at home! In Truffles, Dede Wilson presents 50 delectable recipes for classic and contemporary chocolate truffles using simple techniques anyone can master and featuring a wide variety of flavorings, decorating options, and chocolates. For many, a pure chocolate truffle is perfection on its own. If your truffle credo is "chocolate and nothing but," you'd be in chocolate nirvana after one taste of Easy Dipped Bittersweet Chocolate Truffles, Light Whipped Ganache Truffles, Rich French-Style Truffles, or The Triple Truffle (the ultimate melding of milk, dark, and white chocolate). But adding fruits, nuts, spices, spirits, or other exotic flavors to these little pieces of chocolate heaven is by no means gilding the lily. You'll find dozens of choices to suit a more adventurous truffle aficionado, with flavors ranging from raspberry, cognac, and hazelnut to more unexpected options like curry, green tea, and even rose petals! Featuring mouthwatering color photos with creative ideas for packaging truffles as gifts, Truffles is a sweet treat for any chocolate lover! Recipes include: Cocoa-Dusted Classic Bittersweet Chocolate Truffles Amaretto Apricot Marzipan Truffles Toasted Coconut Truffles Cranberry White Chocolate Truffles Peanut Butter Truffles Chile Cinnamon Dark Chocolate Truffles Chai Milk Chocolate Truffles White Chocolate Fresh Mint Truffles Tiramisu Truffles Cappuccino Truffles Milk and Honey Truffles Bittersweet Chocolate Champagne Truffles Zesty Citrus White Chocolate Truffles

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

96 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Ligaya · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is likely the only truffle book you'll need. Dede Wilson covers everything even a beginner needs to know to produce professional-looking and delicious-tasting truffles. And one of the best things is the list of resources in the back of the book! Nice photographs, interesting taste combinations, clear directions for each truffle.

[Drea · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are some interesting looking recipes in here I'm looking forward to trying. But many of the recipes are very similar. And there is ONLY one molded truffle recipe. I know those are harder to make without specialty equipment, but I would have liked a couple more for diversity.

[Kate · Rating 3 out of 5]

Though I haven't tried her truffles yet, Wilson's book is clear and contains just the right amount of basic information (I think) to make her yummy-sounding truffles. She includes one molded chocolate recipe and one recipe that uses melted rather than tempered chocolate for the coating. The recipes are repetitive - same basic formula with different flavoring ingredients - but I think that's good for the book's intended audience. She has nice decoration ideas and every recipe ends with instructions on best storage means and max duration. She gives useful advice on which brands of chocolate are best for some of the recipes.

[Punk · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cookbook. 50 truffle recipes with variations on a theme. The same basic techniques used with fruit, chocolate, and nut fillings, and coated with cocoa, white, milk, and dark chocolate. Wilson describes the taste and texture of each truffle and sometimes gives recommendations for which chocolate works best in a certain recipe.

Includes a primer on how to temper chocolate and a list of commercial chocolates and their primary characteristics.

A full-color cookbook, with lots of nice photos. Each recipe makes about 40 - 90 truffles, but can easily be doubled or halved.