I got this recipe from my Reg, Nicky. It was yummy and the recipe looks simple enough. So being brave as I was,I decided to make not one, but 2 batches of this for our house warming party. Needless to say, I was cursing myself at 1am in the morning LOL. My husband said I should have stick with the chiffon cakes instead.
The recipe was simple enough but, I started making this at around 10pm after I had skewered 5kgs worth of kebab on my own! So by then I was over doing all this fiddly stuff. I have to keep putting the mixture in the freezer to harden it a bit, otherwise it was fairly difficult to shape it into nicely rounded balls. I can't imagine how Nicky made this truffles with her kids!
It was worth the effort though because the finished products were yumm ! Will defo make it again but I will buy a mellon baller and use it to shape the mixture.
225g cream cheese, softened
3 cups sugar
3 cups semisweet chocolate chips, melted
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
In a large bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Gradually beat in the sugar until well blended. Stir in melted chocolate and vanilla until no streaks remain. Refrigerate for about 1 hour/freeze for 10mins. Shape into 1 inch balls. Roll the balls in ground almonds/cocoa powder/hundreds and thousands/coat with melted chocs etc etc
variations:
use white chocs instead of milk/dark
substitute vanilla for orange/strawberry/whatever flavour you like
