Comments on: robert linxe’s chocolate truffles

By: Elaine

Elaine — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:20:53 +0000

I have a party planned for this weekend and this is what I was looking for. They look so easy to make and so yummy. I’ll let you know how things went

By: Shell

Shell — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:40:37 +0000

I have to wear Latex gloves very frequently during labwork, so when I saw this recipe, I smuggled some home and let me tell you, I have never had such delicious messy fun in my life! It was like fingerpainting as a kid, but 100x waaaaay better :)

By: Fayet

Fayet — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:14:24 +0000

Oh, the beauty. Oh, the chocolate. Oh, the mess I made.. and now my fridge is filled with the most beautiful amount of chocolate truffes and they look SO GOOD. Like, picture perfect. I’ll give some away tomorrow to my girls to test them, and then I’ll make two more batches: One for my best friend in the whole wide world for her birthday and another one for my chocolate addicted mom, using special guatemala chocolate she brought me from a trip. And then I’ll never make it again. That is, unless I need to bribe someone, my boyfriend proposes or I get someone to clean my kitchen afterwards.

By: laura

laura — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:09:43 +0000

I made these over the holidays and packaged them up in fours to give as gifts. I used the Valrhona chocolate and organic cream – amazing. I ended up adding an extra ounce of chocolate to the ganache to achieve a slightly firmer center as well as an extra couple of ounces of melted chocolate for coating. Next time I will wait until the coating is dry before dusting in the cocoa, as it came out rather heavy on some pieces. A great mess, but worth it!

By: Sima

Sima — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:34:53 +0000

I’m making these right now and had the same issue with the chocolate genache not stiffening up. I ended up wasting a lot of the chocolate because it was just going into pools. Also, I only was able to make about 18 truffles definitely not 60!

By: Torgny

Torgny — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:59:08 +0000

I made these truffles the other day for a party. Everyone seemed to love them. The assembly line tip was very helpful. The only changes I made to the recipe were to steep 1 1/2 tablespoons of fennel seeds with the cream (La Maison often flavors their ganache with fennel) and using a small melon baller–the kind that has a button to loosen the melon from the scooper) to scoop out the ganache rather than a pastry bag. Thanks for the recipe!

By: Marisol

Marisol — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:39:28 +0000

I’ve been following your recipes for a about a year now. I started baking out of the blue when I was bored and studying abroad and now the blog is my go to for recipes on lazy weekends and entertainment reading in boring poli sci classes. So thank you! This truffle recipe that was linked from Use Real Butter [love that blog too!] sounded delicious and didn’t involve tempering which scared me. It inspired two college girls to make heart shaped pizza [your pizza dough recipe too ha] and chocolate truffles for V day. We are so proud they are wonderful! So thanks for being so great! You’re our favorite food blogger. Happy Valentines Day!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:05:31 +0000

As I finished making these last night, I was congratulating myself for having made such a small mess when I managed to smear chocolate all over my chin. Nevertheless, I cleaned up and still felt that things had gone well. Later, I found the chocolate stuck in my hair …

By: diabaig

diabaig — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:47:50 +0000

ahh! i live in australia and its summertime.
the ganache has been sitting on the counter for HOURS and will not set even slightly.
i may have to resort to the fridge.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:29:54 +0000

Deb:
I finally got the guts to make these today (what, you mean truffles aren’t traditional Super Bowl fare???) and they are OUTSTANDING. It wasn’t nearly as hard as I thought it would be, and I got to enjoy snapping my gloves at the husband and saying, “You may feel some discomfort…” Thanks for a great recipe. The tip about setting up the assembly line was a life saver.
Lauren