What Can I Use Instead Of Heavy Cream for my Truffles?
I'm making chocolate truffles, but I don't have heavy cream. I have half-n-half, whole milk, 1% milk, and condensed milk. Is there any way I can still make these without the heavy cream and a substitute?
Here are a couple of recipes...
You could try cool whip or lucky whip for heavy cream maybe...
Crunchy Pistachio Truffles
Ingredients:
1 cup shelled pistachio nuts
8 ounces of high quality White Chocolate (e.g. Ghiradelli)
8 ounces of high quality Milk Chocolate (e.g. Green & Black)
8 ounces of bittersweet couverture chocolate
Procedure:
Using a food processor, grind the pistachio nuts until they are mostly well ground, but with some 1/4 nut-sized pieces still left. (In other words, don't grind until the nuts are powdered.)
Melt the white chocolate in a bowl in the microwave (heat for one minute, stir, heat for 25 seconds, stir, repeat until melted fully).
Mix the chopped/ground pistachio nuts into the melted white chocolate and stir until blended. Using a 1 inch truffle scoop, scoop out balls of this mixture onto a baking sheet covered with wax paper. Chill for an hour or until hard.
In a bowl, add the milk and bittersweet chocolates together and melt in the microwave (heat for one minute, stir, heat for 25 seconds, stir, repeat until melted fully).
Using a truffle dipper, dip each pistachio/milk chocolate center into the melted chocolate and return to the baking sheet covered with wax paper. Chill until the coating is hard.
One of my friends said that these were his favorite truffles yet!
http://www.soulhealing.com/choco.htm
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Peppermint Oreo Balls Recipe
Prep: 20 mins
Cook: 60 mins
Servings:30
Ingredients
One bag of Oreos
Peppermint Chocolate (usually one bag works, but I melt the whole thing)
Cream Cheese (one 8 oz package)
Directions
Crush the Oreos in a blender, to make it crumb sized
Mix Oreo crumbs and cream cheese together
Freeze until its becomes a little hard
Melt chocolate.
Roll Oreo/cream cheese mix into quarter sized balls
Using a tooth pick, dip the balls into the chocolate
Lay on a cookie sheet
Once done, place in freezer to hardened up again!
http://www.grouprecipes.com/2033/peppermint-oreo-balls.html
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