Friday, February 17, 2006

Coconut Strawberry Truffles


Ingredients:
-250g white chocolate
-150g cream or milk
-dry grated coconut
-100g fresh strawberries (approximate)
-sugar
-pepper
-1/2 tsp rum
-30g white chocolate (for decorating)
-2 tsp cream
-pink food coloring
What to Do:
Wash and dry strawberries before cutting into small pieces. Mix strawberries with sugar (if necessary), pepper, rum and vinegar. Melt chocolate in a double boiler adding cream slowly to get a smooth silky mixture. Cool until set (a few hours). Quickly wrap strawberries with 1 tsp set chocolate and roll in grated coconut. Melt together 30g chocolate and 2 tsp cream, mix in food coloring; fill this mixture into a pastry bag. Pipe designs onto truffles.

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