Cardamom Chocolate Truffles

February 10, 2014
Food,Recipes

I can only think of one way to describe these truffles: luscious. They’re infused with fragrant cardamom and vanilla and have the most amazing texture. Truffles are typically made with heavy cream, but these are made with egg yolks, which creates a silky texture that pales in comparison to a truffle made with cream. When I first saw this technique in a recipe by Alice Medrich, I knew I had to try it. I love the idea of conversation hearts so simply turned these into “conversation truffles” and used these stone letter stamps to customize my own. These are a must make for your loved ones- they’re easy to make and oh so impressive!

Cardamom chocolate truffles

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 pound of semi-sweet chocolate
  • 1/2 pound of bitter-sweet chocolate
  • 10 tablespoons of unsalted butter, cubed
  • 1 teaspoon of cardamom seeds
  • 1/2 vanilla bean
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1/2 cup of boiling water
  • 1/8 teaspoon of kosher salt
  • 1 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted

Chocolate

Prepare the spices by grinding the cardamom seeds until a fine powder. You can do this either in a mortar and pestle or in a spice grinder. Scrap half the vanilla bean. Set aside.

Cardamom and chocolate

Chop the chocolate. Make sure the pieces are roughly the same size so everything melts evenly. Combine chocolate, butter and salt in a medium pan and heat over low-medium heat and stir until all melted. Add cardamom and vanilla. Set aside.

Chocolate

Place two egg yolks in a bowl and whisk. Slowly pour the hot water down the side of the bowl while whisking the egg yolks. Pour very slowly and in a thin steady stream while whisking so the hot water does scramble the yolks. Continue whisking until all the water is incorporated. Strain through a fine mesh sieve.

Egg yolks

If using a stand mixer, pour chocolate in the bowl fitted with a whisk. Whisk on medium high speed and pour in egg mixture. Beat until completely incorporated. You can also whisk this by hand by adding the egg mixture into the chocolate and whisk until completely incorporated.

Cardamom chocolate truffles

Line an 8 x 8 inch pan with parchment paper and pour chocolate in. Refrigerate for 1 hour and then transfer to the freezer for another 1/2 hour. You can also refrigerate it overnight.

Pouring chocolate

Run a knife along any edge touching the pan and remove. Cut into approximately 1 inch squares. To make clean cuts, fill a tall glass with boiling water and after each cut, dip it in the cup of hot water and wipe clean with a paper towel.

Chocolate truffles

Toss the squares in a plate with the sifted cocoa powder. If you are using the letter prints spray the stamps with a little oil.

Cardamom chocolate truffles

Imprint each truffle with the stamp.

Be Mine

Wipe and oil the stamps before using again.

Conversation truffles

Personalize your own love message. (I made this for my sweetheart!)

I love you Clay
Truffle bite

. . . or maybe you’re celebrating single-hood!

Single!

(images by HonestlyYUM)

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How cute! And cardamom and chocolate sounds like a great idea. I’ve never had it before. I’ll have to try these out!

What a data of un-ambiguity and preserveness of valuable knowledge regarding unpredicted emotions.

Big hit!!
Delicious pralines, thanks for the recipe
(and thanks to them, I’ve got a date tomorrow…! )

Be mine, cardamom truffles! What a stunning post, Karen. I just love these.

OH my goodness. I love these. Not only do they look great, but they are so cute!

Couldn’t pin these fast enough — and I love that you flavored them with cardamom!

ahh! whoever gets to be your valentine is the luckiest human! these look insanely good.

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