Ingredients
- 125g best-quality dark chocolate, finely chopped
- 350g leftover, or freshly cooked and cooled, Christmas pudding
- 60ml sherry
- 2 x 15ml tablespoons golden syrup
FOR DECORATION:
- 100g white chocolate, finely chopped
- 6 red glacé cherries
- 6 green glacé cherries
1 Line a baking sheet (that will fit in the fridge) with clingfilm, baking parchment, or foil and set it to one side while you make the bonbons.
2 Melt the dark chocolate in a heatproof bowl suspended above a pan of simmering water, or in the microwave according to the manufacturer's guidelines.
3 Crumble the cold Christmas pudding into a bowl, add the sherry and golden syrup and stir till all is incorporated.
4 Pour in the melted dark chocolate and stir again: this will make the mixture much more sticky.
5 To make this step easier you could use those disposable gloves, but a little vegetable oil on your hands works too, pinch out small lumps of mixture and roll so that you have little rounds about the size of a chocolate truffle. You should get about 30 out of this mixture; fight the impatient urge to make these balls larger as you go.
6 Cover with clingfilm and slot into the fridge to firm up.
You don’t need to decorate these, especially if at this time of the year Christmas seems a distant memory, but they are super cute when decorated.2 Melt the dark chocolate in a heatproof bowl suspended above a pan of simmering water, or in the microwave according to the manufacturer's guidelines.
3 Crumble the cold Christmas pudding into a bowl, add the sherry and golden syrup and stir till all is incorporated.
4 Pour in the melted dark chocolate and stir again: this will make the mixture much more sticky.
5 To make this step easier you could use those disposable gloves, but a little vegetable oil on your hands works too, pinch out small lumps of mixture and roll so that you have little rounds about the size of a chocolate truffle. You should get about 30 out of this mixture; fight the impatient urge to make these balls larger as you go.
6 Cover with clingfilm and slot into the fridge to firm up.
7 To decorate, melt the white chocolate either in a heatproof bowl suspended over a pan of simmering water, or in the microwave, then let it cool for about 5 minutes, to make it easier to work with, while you chop the red cherries into small pieces (like berries), and snip the green cherries, to represent leaves.
8 Using a teaspoon, drip a little of the melted but slightly cooled white chocolate on each truffle, then arrange the sticky pieces of cherry on top (a cocktail stick helps stop getting your fingers sticky when doing this).
9 Eat!
Next time: Mincemeat Muffins.
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