It sounded too good to be true. Truffles that combined cream cheese, chocolate and pumpkin. All three flavours blending perfectly. The truffle dream team. But no. One of them had to dominate. Take control. Push the others into the background. The culprit: chocolate. Next time, there will be severe restrictions placed on chocolate's participation.
Here's what happened:
11 oz. semi-sweet chocolate, melted
4 oz. cream cheese
1/3 cup pumpkin puree
1 cup icing sugar
3 Tbsp. cocoa powder
cinnamon & nutmeg, to taste
Combined all ingredients. Refrigerated until firm. Rolled into truffles.
There was also something about kneading marzipan, tinting it orange, rolling pieces of it around each truffle, and indenting the sides to resemble pumpkins. Sounds impressive. But with only three days until Halloween, I refused to even consider it. Instead, I took the easy way out and rolled them in these snazzy orange candy sprinkles. Fancy.
They tasted great. If you like chocolate with a hint of cinnamon and nutmeg. And I do. But next time, the cream cheese and spice content will go up. Way up.
5 comments:
hi! I love your site! And I love it! That's so cute!
My little brother really likes your site! He says it's kinda spooky!
It's good this halloween!
I'm a chocolate lover! That's why I'm into viewing sites with regards to chocolates.
Try to see this:
www.ilovechocolatetoo.com
Oooooooh, those truffles sound both heavenly (chocolate, spices and marzipan) and hellish (pureed pumpkin with chocolate?) But I will take your word for it! They sure LOOK good in the picture! Makes me want to lean close to the screen and sniff!
Oh, WHEN will we get virtual smell technology??
(grumble, grumble!) Ohhhhh my tummy likes your blog, it's telling me it does! giggle
Yum! Definately going to try this one! Thanks for sharing.
Cheers!
Well, I like chocolate...but I understand the need for more flavors. :)
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boo
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