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.

6 comments:

  1. Anonymous3:21 AM

    hi tt, very sweet looking truffles, well done !

    Can you enlighten me why need to add pepper and vinegar to the strawbeeries ?

    jc

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  2. jc,
    the pepper and vinegar helps brings out the taste of the strawberries. You can do without the vinegar but the pepper is a must! :)

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  3. Anonymous4:53 PM

    Do you know how to make these?

    http://www.overlandclub.jp/ryouri/menu/banh_ran.jpg

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  4. anonymous,
    are you asking for a recipe or just want to know how it's made? It's made with glutinous rice flour, sugar, mung beans, coconut, sesame seeds, and deep fried in hot oil.

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  5. Anonymous9:10 AM

    Both, please.

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  6. I already told you how it's made, I'll post the recipe when I have more time on my hands....which will be at least sometime next week.

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