HELP!!! i need a really easy recipe for christmas truffles!!!!!!!!

[kerryk]

i work in a nursery and am supposed to be making christmas truffles with the children on monday, i told my boss weeks ago that i had everything sorted but i have not even found a recipie yet

please help me find one, the children are all 2 and we have no cooking facilites so it need to be things that we can throw together (we can melt marg but thats about it)

i have told my boss that the recipe involves mincemeat so if you can work this into it for me i would be most gratefull

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I think I have a choc truffle recipe somewhere.... iirc it involves dairy milk, icing sugar, evap milk and flavourings like almond essence or rum etc.... will have a look and see if I can find the recipe over the weekend for you.

Sorry no mincemeat involved but you could try these:

250g rich tea biscuits, crushed
1 cup dessicated coconut (about 225g)
2 Tbsp cocoa powder
400g sweetened condensed milk

Crush biscuits. Add coconut and cocoa and mix well. Stir in the condensed milk. Form into balls and roll in chocolate sprinkles, cocoa or coconut. Store in the fridge.

< that you have been lying to your boss though >

You can put a bit of vanilla extract in there too if you like

here's a really easy recipe

Don't put rum in them, obviously

They look yummy

Have never heard of truffles made with mincemeat, I don't think would work tbh.

The easiest way to make them is with dark/plain chocolate, double cream, butter and cocoa powder (plus any flavourings like vanilla, coffee etc)

Made some with ds from Junior in shape of Christmas puds . Might be a challenge for 2yr olds though.

150g melted dark choc and 150ml double cream and 25g butter , few drops of vanilla essence. Mix together well and leave to cool. Then mould into rounds, drizzle with a small tsp of melted white choc and put green/red jelly bits on for holly. Put in small foil cases , voila !

I had one that used crumbled up Christmas pudding although I'm not sure what I@ve done with it...

I cannot beleive you are being so straight-faced about the mincemeat.

I just giggle every time I read that.

I love fattening truffles and some all of these sounds great!!

I think the recipe I'm looking for was in November's Waitrose Food Magazine, which I@ve given away...

maybe it was christmas pudding and not mincemeat

i should really start paying more attention when i tell little white lies.

Codul you make these in advance and get the kids to ice them and put nose on ?

Have tried without success to find an appropriate one! Theselook easy, but no mincemeat.

These look like you could have replaced the figs & cinnamon with mincemeat but I'm not sure you'd be able to do the melting creme fraich bit.

Second one you could have left the ginger out too in favour of the mincemeat although I@d recommend trying it first to see if it tastes OK!!

Can you not just say you found a better/easier/more child friendly recipe that you thought would work better than the one that had mincemeat in it ?

DoesntChristmasDragOn- do you think i could replace the fruit loaf stuff in the first link with christmas pudding??

or would that not work.

the full story of what happened is that my boss found a recipie weeks ago and told me about it, her computer then blew up on her and she asked me to find it for her.

after a few weeks of her nagging at me i lied and said i had found it and had written it down in the house, now i need the flipping thing for monday and it looks like whatever she was on about does not exist.

my boss had said "i think it involves mincemeat" which must be rubbish but of course to make it look like i had done what she had asked i said "oohhh yes the one i found def had mincemeat in it"

i am making myself sound really bad here

I don't see why not. I would imagine they'd be less fine than cake crumbs resulting in a lumpier truffle. Can you bung a pudding through a food processor? Grate it?

Oh poor you!

This is so the type of thing I would do. I will go and google some recipes and see if I can find anything with something like mince meat? Or christmas pudding.

This one involves mincemeat but you need to do a lot of heating and you have to melt the suet in the mincemeat (unless you find a suet free one). I'm not sure if your facilities are up to it, although you could do the melting bit at home and take in the chilled baking tray it mentions?

Wouldn't use white chocolate myself other than for the outside [shudder]

i think i may be able to pull this of

here is one called a Christmas Pudding Truffle

Oh soupy has one for you!!

That's that sorted!!

This is a recipe Mrs Badger posted a while ago. Really easy. Cos the kids will probably end up eating them I'd use half dark/half milk chocolate so they're not too bitter. Can all be done in a microwave.

warm 250ml double cream till hot but not boiling
pour over 250g good dark chocolate broken into bits
stir till smooth and combined
leave to cool
put in frisdge overnight
make into balls with two teaspoons and roll in cocoa / icing sugar / cinnamon / chocolate sprinkles as the mood takes you
put in petit four cases
done