A Holiday Truffle Party: Creating Lasting Memories and Delicious Treats to Bring Home
So what better way to fix that than get a couple of friends over and have a party!
My mama and I did just that with Jessica Hodges and Savannah Wier from Red C Cafe. We also enlisted some help from family and made a great night out of it.
A few things to consider...
You will want to have enough space to accommodate your guests and the truffle rolling process. If you don't have enough counter space in your home, consider setting up card tables for work stations.
Keep it simple... We have included two recipes for you, but there are limitless possibilities for truffles. We thought of using biscoff cookies and Nutella as well as golden Oreos. The key is pick a hard cookie as part of your base and keep your ratios proportionate. These recipes are also very easy to multiply depending on the amount of truffles you would like to make in a night.
Multiple melting stations also helps speed up the process.
We hope your truffle party is a great hit! And let us know what combinations you discover! We will be working on apple pie truffles... Follow us on social to stay in the know.
Also if you are ever in Wadley, be sure to check out Red C Cafe. Jessica and her crew do an amazing job and I can attest to the fact, her French toast is AMAZING!!!
Learn more about Red C Cafe at www.redccafe.com
Gingerbread Truffle Recipe
INGREDIENTS
- 1 cup ground Gingersnap cookies
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 2 oz. softened cream cheese
- 12 oz. White chocolate chip
- 2 TBS shortening
INSTRUCTIONS
- Add cookies and cinnamon to a food processor. Blend until they all are fine crumbs.
- Mix the crumb mixture with softened cream cheese until all incorporated.
- Use hands or a small ice cream scoop to make truffle balls. Lay them on a parchment paper with toothpicks sticking out.
- Chill truffles until stiff, approximately 30 minutes to an hour.
- While waiting for you truffles to chill, heat your white chocolate chips and shortening on low heat continuously stirring. You may add more shortening to thin your chocolate if needed.
- Take truffles and dip into melted chocolate and decorate with sprinkles. Lay them on parchment paper and remove tooth pick when chocolate becomes solid.
NOTES
Using a Styrofoam block to place your truffles into gives a more finished look.
Wait until your chocolate is almost solid before adding sugar sprinkles to get a more glittery look.
Placing truffles in decorative bags or small cup cake liners adds a beautiful touch to your assortment.
Oreo Truffle Recipe
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups crushed Oreos, approx. 24 Oreos
4 oz Cream Cheese (softened)
1 Cup Chopped Dark, Milk, or White Chocolate
Cake Pop Sticks
Sprinkles (Optional)
Instructions
Crush Oreos in a food processor until they are fine crumbs.
Add cream cheese and Oreos to a bowl and mix well until it is all one shiny ball.
Scoop out a one inch ball, roll it to pack it tight. Add your tooth pick and line on a pan line with parchment paper. Refrigerate for 15 minutes.
While cooling truffles, microwave your chocolate in 30 second intervals until smooth, stirring in between each interval. You can add Crisco shortening to thin chocolate 1 tbs. at a time until it is at desired texture.
After they have cooled dip your truffle in chocolate and lay on parchment paper. Add sprinkles if you would like.
After you are done with making your truffles, refrigerate until you are ready to eat.
Story by Kelly Caldwell
Recipes from Jessica Hodges
