Description
Chocolate-drizzled buttercream truffles combine rich European pastry techniques with modern dessert creativity. Rich chocolate shells encase creamy centers, delivering luxurious sweetness that delights culinary enthusiasts.
Ingredients
Scale
- 16 oz (454 g) Ghirardelli dark chocolate melting wafers
- ¾ cup (170 g) unsalted butter, softened
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 3 tbsps (45 mL) milk
- 2 tsps (10 mL) pure vanilla extract
- Sprinkles
Instructions
- Preparation: Whip butter, vanilla, and powdered sugar in a mixer, blending smoothly while gradually adding milk until the mixture becomes light and fluffy.
- Chilling: Transfer buttercream to refrigerator and allow to firm for 1-2 hours, ensuring proper consistency for shaping.
- Forming: Use a cookie scoop to create uniform spheres, placing them carefully on a parchment-lined tray and transferring to freezer for 30 minutes to solidify.
- Shaping: Remove chilled spheres and gently roll between palms to create smooth, perfect rounds.
- Coating: Melt chocolate wafers using a double boiler or microwave, maintaining a consistent liquid temperature.
- Dipping: Pierce each buttercream sphere with a toothpick, submerge completely in melted chocolate, allowing excess to drip off by gentle tapping.
- Finishing: Place chocolate-covered truffles on fresh parchment paper, immediately garnish with sprinkles before chocolate sets, repeating for all spheres.
Notes
- Chill Thoroughly: Refrigerate buttercream for 60-90 minutes to ensure firm, shapeable consistency for perfectly round truffles.
- Freeze Before Coating: Freezing buttercream spheres for 25-35 minutes helps maintain shape during chocolate dipping and prevents crumbling.
- Maintain Chocolate Temperature: Keep melted chocolate at smooth, fluid consistency to achieve clean, even coating on truffles.
- Quick Decoration: Add sprinkles immediately after dipping while chocolate is still wet to ensure they stick securely to truffle surface.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Blending
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 22
- Calories: 204
- Sugar: 24 g
- Sodium: 16 mg
- Fat: 12 g
- Saturated Fat: 7 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 25 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 30 mg