Chocolate Truffles

Name: Chocolate Truffles
Yield: Makes 64 truffles
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 2 cups (12 ounces; 340 grams), bittersweet chocolate, roughly chopped; 1/2 cup, heavy cream; 2 tablespoons, light corn syrup; 1/2 teaspoon, vanilla extract; Pinch, salt; 1 1/2 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 8 pieces and softened; 1 cup (3 ounces; 85 grams), Dutch-processed cocoa; 1/4 cup (1 ounces; 28 grams), confectioners' sugar

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2012, America's Test Kitchen TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

Turning out dense, creamy, professional-quality chocolate truffles at home was easy—once we found a cure for the grainy texture.

SERVESMakes 64 truffles

TIME1 hour, 2 hours resting and 4 hours chilling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

The problem with many homemade truffles is that they have a dry, grainy texture. There are three keys to creating creamy, silky-smooth truffles. First, start with melted chocolate. Melting the chocolate before adding the cream allowed us to...

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