Cake Truffles

I made these from cake scraps. I love cake truffles. They were easy and cute. When I found myself lazy to bake any cake, I would grab some butter cake from the bakery, crumbed them and mixed them with Betty Crocker's vanilla frosting. Shape, dip and sprinkle - and they were good to go. They were really easy. I bought some transfer sheet the other day, and decided to experiment them on the truffles. They look lovely, don't they?

Chocolate Truffles

My younger brother came back home last weekend. He told me to make something for him to bring back to his college. Well, it was 4 hours and less until he had to go back to college. I haven't got the time to plan anything. Then, I remembered that I still have some chocolates and cream left from my Oat Truffle. So, I made him some Chocolate Truffle instead. I had some melted chocolate left, so I made him some Almond T'ings too :)

Chocolate Truffle

125g Dark Chocolate

100ml Cream

2 tbsp Corn Syrup

10g Butter

250g Melted Compound Chocolate - for dipping

200g Cocoa Powder - sifted

1. Chop dark chocolate into a small pieces.

2. Combine cream with corn syrup in a sauce pot. Bring them to boil, and stir constantly.

3. Pour the cream to the dark chocolate, and stir them well. Then, stir in the butter.

4. Set aside ganache in the refrigerator for an hour, or until ganache is firm to work with.

5. Rest ganache at room temperature for 5 minutes.

6. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Using a teaspoon, scoop out balls of ganache and place on the sheet pan.

7. Roll the ganache into a round ball.

8. Dip the ball into the melted compound chocolate.

9. Roll them with cocoa powder. Leave the ball on the cocoa powder until set before remove.

Chocolate Oat Truffles

I brought myself a chocolate bar mold the other day. I was thinking of practicing my chocolate tampering technique, but the chocolate end up looking bad. It wasn't as smooth. So, I melted those chocolate again, thinking that I should turn them into something else. When I look around the kitchen for ingredients, I found a packet of Quaker Oats', and decide to make something based on Chocolate and Oats. I peeked into the fridge, and found enough ingredients to make some Chocolate Oat Truffles. 

Chocolate Oat Truffle

120g Dark Chocolate - melted

80ml Cream

1 tsp Light Corn Syrup

1 tbsp Butter, soft

1 cup Oats

25 ml Milk - warm

1 tsp Vanilla

1/2 cup Almond - toasted and chopped (optional)

1/2 cup Cornflakes (optional)

Garnish:

250g  Compounded Chocolate - melted

2 tbsp Cocoa Powder - sifted.

1. Soak oats, almond and cornflakes with milk and vanilla. Set aside.

2. Combine the melted chocolate with cream and light corn syrup. Then, stir in the butter.

3. Stir in soaked oats with chocolate mixture. Mix until well combined.

4. Spread the chocolate-oat mixture on a parchment paper, and refrigerate them for an hour.

5. Cut the chocolate oat into square and roll in hands to form a ball.

6. Dip the chocolate ball into melted compounded chocolate, and immediately roll them in the cocoa powder until the truffle is fully covered. Let the chocolate set before moving them from the cocoa powder.

Notes: The cornflakes, when soaked with milk and oats will give the truffle a chewy texture.

Chocolate Cake

My brother sent me an e-mail to me. Actually, it was forwarded. It was from his friend, asking if I could make a birthday cakes. He opt for a chocolate cake. This cake was frosted with chocolate glaze. Well, I always like chocolate glaze as compared to chocolate fudge. It was easier to pour and it looks neat. I decorate the cake with some strawberry and chocolate pocky, strawberry, sprinkles and Oreo's truffle.

Cake Truffle

White, chocolate and purple coated cake truffle~

Aimi from burp! le feastin avec moi told me a few times that she wanted to taste my cake pops. I never really had the chance to give her any sample as we rarely met (although we didn't live that far apart). So, I made a few cake truffle/cake ball for her and our guest during my open house last Sunday. I am really glad that our guest loved it!

 I love drizzling them! It was super fun!

I made vanilla and velvet cake. Than, they were coated in white, purple, pink, and dark chocolate (I add in some coloring in the white chocolate to get the purple color). For the final touch, they were drizzled with pink and purple chocolate.

Pretty, aren't they?