Making handmade gifts for Christmas or any other occasion can be a wonderful activity with kids or friends. This chocolate truffles recipe is quick and easy to make and requires no baking. You'll only need to melt the plain chocolate used to make your basic truffles and perhaps melt any additional chocolate you may use for coating your sweet treats.
Presenting your homemade chocolates in paper sweet cases and packaged in pretty presentation boxes makes them look fantastic and the gift recipient will really appreciate the time and trouble taken to make a handmade gift.
You'll only need plain chocolate, icing sugar, evaporated milk, vanilla essence and dessicated coconut for this easy chocolate truffle recipe and then you can let your imagination go wild with flavorings and additional coatings, so you can create really personal and attractive truffles for family and friends. You can add alcohol, fruit extracts or nuts to your basic truffle mixture and coatings could include dipping individual truffles in melted white or milk chocolate, dipping in chopped nuts and even decorating the top of each candy with little sweets, colored sugars or tiny nuts or coffee beans.
Kids will adore the opportunity to make gifts for friends or family members and this recipe is an ideal option for children, even small kids will be able to mix the truffles and make them into little balls. And they'll love the chance to make individual decorations for each sweet.
This inexpensive recipe makes about 30 truffles but the ingredients can be doubled and multiplied to make larger amounts if necessary. The article also contains a couple of video demonstrations showing different chocolate truffle recipes and mixtures.
You can check out more confectionery and sweet recipes on the BBC website.
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