Friday 15 April 2011

passionfruit ganache truffles



I’ve always wanted to make my own truffles, in fact it's a 2011 Food Challenge, and this little experiment yielded some tasty results.

I did it all wrong. I know that now.

Every step could have been, should have been easier. But it wasn’t.

It was trial and error in production, but the final truffles were quite amazing.

I love the contrast between the sweet and sour passionfruit and the bitter dark chocolate. One of my favourite dessert flavour combinations.


Passionfruit Chocolate Truffles

Anna’s very own recipe. Makes approximately 10-15.

Ingredients:
100g white chocolate
80ml cream
40ml passionfruit pulp, without seeds
100g dark chocolate

Method:
1. Blend passionfruit pulp in a food processor to break up seeds from juices.

2. Chop white chocolate finely and put in a bowl.

3. Over a low heat, bring cream and passionfruit pulp to a boil

4. Strain over white chocolate then mix until melted.

5. Refrigerate ganache overnight.

6. Using a melon baller and very wet hands, scoop out cold ganache and roll into balls. Do this quickly so the ganache has as little contact with your hands as possible. Keep dipping hands into water between each ball to prevent sticking. You may need to do in batches, returning ganache to fridge to firm up.

7. Put balls on grease-proof paper into the freezer for about an hour to firm up completely.

8. Melt the dark chocolate then allow it to cool for 5-10 minutes (depends how warm your kitchen is).

9. Roll the ganache balls in the dark chocolate then return to fridge to harden up. Make sure dark chocolate covers ganache completely or when it hardens and expands the ganache will squirt out (I learnt the hard way).

10. Remove from fridge just before eating.




If you want to read up on passionfruit recipes, here are some of my earlier passionfruit recipes for marshmallows or curd.

12 comments:

  1. I haven't made truffles in a long while, I guess I like the patience they require. Yours look lovely, that's a great flavour combo.

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  2. Mmm, yum - great falvour combo. They do seem quite tedious though, so I think I'm happy to buy mine... not that anywhere has passionfruit ones!

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  3. How clever are you?! It might have been trial and error in production, but these look amazing!

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  4. It sure sounds like they were a bit of a labour of love but they certainly look and sound delicious! I really love passionfruit and dark chocolate together too - yuuuuum!!

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  5. lateral & tina - they aren't that hard and certainly worth it

    amy & maria - thanks!

    lizzie - i love that combo too

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  6. These sound delicious. I love passionfruit and white chocolate together!

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  7. Great mix!! Sound a diferent chocolate flavour for easter.
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  8. Thank you for stopping by mine! Of course the first recipe has to be truffles... with passion fruit... they look absolutely divine!

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  9. Yum!!! Discovered Passion Fruit truffles a year ago while traveling thought - I could do THAT! HA! not easy!!! i've made several batches since then...lots of trial & ERROR on my part. I tried the ganache with a white chocolate coating and my taste testers all like that one better. They said it was kind of smooth compared to the dark. Give it a whirl!!

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  10. Hey Anna, I made these last night, delicious! I will definitely make them again, with some tweaking. The ganache ended up not setting....too much cream for the white choc I had :( But I rescued it with more chocolate. Looking forward to a more passionfruity version!

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  11. emma - sorry to hear you had trouble. the warm, humid weather isn't very conducive to chocolate making i must admit. let me know how your next batch goes with less cream and maybe i'll tweak my recipe too.

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