truffles

[jmtorres]

So I was considering making chocolate truffles because I have too much free time and a fair amount of cooking supplies. Only it turns out that I'd be making a batch of like, 15 dozen, so uh, does anyone want homemade truffles?

potential flavors:
--pecan
--walnut
--almond
--hazelnut
--fair warning all the nut ones would probably be made with some form of alcohol
--orange
--lemon
--maple
--honey
--rum
--mint
--am willing to take requests if i can figure out how to do a flavor neatly
--like raspberry ala chambord

Ping if interested with requested flavors, I'll probably figure out the 4-6 favorite flavors that will cause me the least pain and suffering and send out like, a dozen to everyone who wants.

Recipe includes condensed milk and butter, so sadly not for my vegan or dairy-free friends.

Comments

[niqaeli]

mint sounds lovely! *predictable*

hazelnut and pecan are my favourite nuts, though, and I figure the odds of you making some hazelnut are good...

[jmtorres]

Heh. One of the two recipes I'm running from is called "Kentucky Bourbon Balls" and is pecan and bourbon. I figured I could mod it for most nuts. The other one is basically the same butter-powdered sugar truffle base with flavor extracts instead of nuts and booze, so, overall, pretty adaptable.

[jmtorres]

Can you drop by this entry and make final selections so I can sort proportions? Thank you!

[ysobel]

Um yes please? :D

(not walnut, but the rest all sounds good :9)

[jmtorres]

not walnut is good to know! But please vote for at least one thing you like to help me sort

[ysobel]

Heh. Mint, rum, or maple would probably be my top picks? But they all sound good? So I am indecisive?

[verstehen]

I love almond but mint sounds amazing and I've never tried it before. Pecan also sounds good and, like mint, is something I haven't tried in a truffle before. (Why are there so many flavor choices? Why must we be tormented with so much good-sounding food to choose from? Who cursed us to live this sorry existence!)

[jmtorres]

I CAN SEND YOU MULTIPLE FLAVORS

[verstehen]

Then put me down for a few of all three, if you make them? Or a mix of those flavors you do make. I'm actually not picky at all, which is where the food indecisiveness comes from. ;)

[jmtorres]

Can you drop by this entry and make final selections so I can sort proportions? Thank you! (I can do a mix of all box! or a just those three box! I totally just want to consolidate my data)

[twistedchick]

Hazelnut and maple sound great -- I have never made those. I have made mint, kahlua, chambord (raspberry flavor) and a few other liqueur-tinged ones, usually in the winter. And thank you very much!

[jmtorres]

oooh chambord I TOTALLY HAVE CHAMBORD

(there's a chambord story with my family that --no. but it's hilarious anyway.)

[jmtorres]

Can you drop by this entry and make final selections so I can sort proportions? Thank you!

[krait]

Oh, wow! I would never turn down truffles! It's against my religion, I think. :D

I would love any nut, pretty much; in rough order of love: almond, hazelnut, walnut, pecan.

Mint or rum would be more than OK, too, if it turns out everybody else hates nuts for some reason. :D

So excited!

[jmtorres]

There will definitely be at least some nuts :-)

[everysecondtuesday]

Oh, wow, I would love some if you still have some after everyone above me?

Walnut, hazelnut, or honey all sound amazing.

[jmtorres]

did i mention fifteen DOZEN are coming out of this? What are your flavor prefs eta: and of course i got the original in my email hands there are your flavors

[everysecondtuesday]

<333333

[jmtorres]

Can you drop by this entry and make final selections so I can sort proportions? Thank you!

[laurajv]

I would love some, if you are still taking hopefuls. (you should see me snarf up basingstoke's rum truffles every year muahahahah). I'm dairy-free BUT totally take meds for truffles, and will happily eat any flavor, even weird ones, like rosemary and lavender and things like that.

[jmtorres]

Excellent I shall make you a mix bag

[verity]

totally here for this! lemon & hazelnut are my jam. <3

[jmtorres]

woohoo

[ambyr]

Many of those sound awesome, but particularly maple and mint!

[jmtorres]

Can you drop by this entry and make final selections so I can sort proportions? Thank you!

[jenna_thorn]

I would think the honey would be too subtle against the chocolate, but man, maple sounds wonderful. And raspberry and mint are classics for a reason. But the suggestion above for rosemary sounds really interesting - an unexpected savoury, the way folks have been using chile with chocolate or sea salt with caramel.

[jmtorres]

Can you drop by this entry and make final selections so I can sort proportions? Thank you!

[jenna_thorn]

I didn't want to impose, since you have so many requests.

[jmtorres]

there are going to be 15 dozen truffles. 15. dozen. i have yet to need to turn anyone away