Make your own truffles for Wedding Favours

7 December 2008 590 views No Comment

Today, I’ve been at Queen’s Cub in Kensington on a chocolate making course. I first saw a feature on chocolate making by the Chocolate Delight company in the London Paper, a local newspaper. The classes run on weekends and are between £55-100. My course on Sunday at 2 pm was for £57. The course includes all ingredients and as many marshmallows in chocolate fountain as you can eat.

The course instructor was a very lively chocolatier called Alan and he pads out the course by explaining the history of chocolate and some interesting facts. There was a grumpy old single woman who asked so many questions and interupted the poor teacher. I realise that there is always one smart ass no matter where you go! Actually I was probably one of those people in law school so maybe it takes one to identify one!

So anyways, here are some of my photos from today showing how we made the chocolate. As soon as I get the recipe from the tutor, i shall post it right away. I apologise if the photos look a bit rude but the chocolate does look like poo when you line them out. I promise they do get better as the course progresses…

First head the cocoa bits in a microwave so no water comes in. Mix one part whipping cream with two parts chocolate. Mix.

Put the chocolate into a piping bag and cut off ends and make long lines of chocolate on a tray with baking paper.

Throw away all the piping bags.

After about 20 minutes and waiting for the chocolate to set, cut up the chocolate lines into about 2 inches of chocolate bits. Roll them in your fingertips into small truffle balls.

Meanwhile, take chocolate and heat up to 45 degrees. Then lay it flat on a marble top or a slab and keep mixing till it is about 35 degrees.

Dip your chocolate bits in the chocolate mixture you just prepared. Then dip them in different flavourings and mixing. We had one that was coconut, one that was nutty, one that was just plain chocolate and another that was half icing sugar and half cornflour.

Tah dah !!!

Wrap in florist film and tie with ribbons.

Or you could put them in nice little bags:

So what do you think? Perhaps I could have them as wedding favours and put little tags that say “Lovingly made by the Bride and bridesmaids” and the person’s name on each tag.

I also realise the distinct advantage of doing these truffles instead of iced cookies for wedding favour was that these truffles last 2-3 weeks so I could make them about 3 weeks before the wedding. The iced cookies would need to be made a day or so before the wedding and I think I’ll be too stressed out to bother hand writing each and every guests name on the iced cookies the day before the wedding.