Making Truffles at Home
Brunch with friends, a bridal shower, baby shower, birthday party, or just a tea party with someone you love – all great reasons to make these easy little truffles at home! Sofia wanted to have a tea party, so this turned into a fun at home project on a Saturday morning. We enjoyed them after we got home from the park. They are super easy to make, so cute, and a lot easier than you think! Scroll down for the quick and easy way to make truffles at home! Enjoy! xo
Ingredients & Tools
- 1 – 12 ounce bag Chocolate chips – the type is up to you, but it must be able to melt (I used semi-sweet)
- Sprinkles, peanut butter, sun butter, freeze dried berries, nuts/seeds, crystalized ginger or anything else you may want to fill the truffles with
- You need molds for your truffles, and some like a double boiler to melt the chocolate. If you want to melt chocolate in the microwave, I added the instructions below. Bonus of the molds is that you can use them to make cute little (less junky) candies, to make little soaps, candles, crayons, or even super cute ice cubes! 🙂
Instructions
- Melt your chocolate! I melted my chocolate chips on the stove by bringing about an inch of water to a boil in a saucepan. Set a heatproof (microwave/oven safe) glass bowl on top of the mouth of the saucepan and ensure that it fits well so it doesn’t move around. Use potholders to protect your hand and to make sure the bowl is secure while you stir. See photos below for a visual. Make sure the bowl and water are not touching. You want the steam below the bowl to melt the chocolate. Stir the chocolate as it starts to melt. When there are a couple of small unmelted chocolate chips, remove the bowl from heat (still using potholders) and put onto a heatproof surface. The residual heat will melt the rest of the tiny pieces, so simply stir until smooth. Â
- If you are more comfortable melting chocolate in the microwave, put your chocolate chips into a medium glass microwave-safe bowl. Microwave for 20-30 seconds at a time (depending on the strength of your microwave), stir with a spatula, and repeat. When the chocolate chips are mostly melted but you can still see a couple of pieces remaining, set it aside and stir well until smooth.Â
- Once you have your chocolate melted, use a small spoon to fill your molds. If you are making them solid, you can fill them all and simply chill them in the fridge for an hour (or until solid). To make the transfer of the molds to your fridge easier, place the molds on a plate or sheet pan before you fill them.
- If you plan to fill them, only add enough chocolate to fill about 1/3 of the mold shape. Add your filling (we used chocolate candy coated sprinkles and sunbutter). Do not overfill them – start slow and you’ll get a feel for how much to add. Top your filling with more chocolate. You can see I overfilled a couple of ours and they still worked, were still delicious, but weren’t as professional looking. 🙂
- Chill for an hour or until solid. Â
- Eat, share, enjoy! 🙂
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Chirag Diyora
Brunch with friends, a bridal shower, baby shower, birthday party, or just a tea party with someone you love – all great reasons to make these easy little truffles at home! Sofia wanted to have a tea party, so this turned into a fun at home project on a Saturday morning. We enjoyed them after we got home from the park. They are super easy to make, so cute, and a lot easier than you think! Scroll down for the quick and easy way to make truffles at home! Enjoy! xo
Ingredients & Tools
- 1 – 12 ounce bag Chocolate chips – the type is up to you, but it must be able to melt (I used semi-sweet)
- Sprinkles, peanut butter, sun butter, freeze dried berries, nuts/seeds, crystalized ginger or anything else you may want to fill the truffles with
- You need molds for your truffles, and some like a double boiler to melt the chocolate. If you want to melt chocolate in the microwave, I added the instructions below. Bonus of the molds is that you can use them to make cute little (less junky) candies, to make little soaps, candles, crayons, or even super cute ice cubes! 🙂
Instructions
- Melt your chocolate! I melted my chocolate chips on the stove by bringing about an inch of water to a boil in a saucepan. Set a heatproof (microwave/oven safe) glass bowl on top of the mouth of the saucepan and ensure that it fits well so it doesn’t move around. Use potholders to protect your hand and to make sure the bowl is secure while you stir. See photos below for a visual. Make sure the bowl and water are not touching. You want the steam below the bowl to melt the chocolate. Stir the chocolate as it starts to melt. When there are a couple of small unmelted chocolate chips, remove the bowl from heat (still using potholders) and put onto a heatproof surface. The residual heat will melt the rest of the tiny pieces, so simply stir until smooth. Â
- If you are more comfortable melting chocolate in the microwave, put your chocolate chips into a medium glass microwave-safe bowl. Microwave for 20-30 seconds at a time (depending on the strength of your microwave), stir with a spatula, and repeat. When the chocolate chips are mostly melted but you can still see a couple of pieces remaining, set it aside and stir well until smooth.Â
- Once you have your chocolate melted, use a small spoon to fill your molds. If you are making them solid, you can fill them all and simply chill them in the fridge for an hour (or until solid). To make the transfer of the molds to your fridge easier, place the molds on a plate or sheet pan before you fill them.
- If you plan to fill them, only add enough chocolate to fill about 1/3 of the mold shape. Add your filling (we used chocolate candy coated sprinkles and sunbutter). Do not overfill them – start slow and you’ll get a feel for how much to add. Top your filling with more chocolate. You can see I overfilled a couple of ours and they still worked, were still delicious, but weren’t as professional looking. 🙂
- Chill for an hour or until solid. Â
- Eat, share, enjoy! 🙂
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- Sprinkles, peanut butter, sun butter, freeze dried berries, nuts/seeds, crystalized ginger or anything else you may want to fill the truffles with
- You need molds for your truffles, and some like a double boiler to melt the chocolate. If you want to melt chocolate in the microwave, I added the instructions below. Bonus of the molds is that you can use them to make cute little (less junky) candies, to make little soaps, candles, crayons, or even super cute ice cubes! 🙂
Instructions
- Melt your chocolate! I melted my chocolate chips on the stove by bringing about an inch of water to a boil in a saucepan. Set a heatproof (microwave/oven safe) glass bowl on top of the mouth of the saucepan and ensure that it fits well so it doesn’t move around. Use potholders to protect your hand and to make sure the bowl is secure while you stir. See photos below for a visual. Make sure the bowl and water are not touching. You want the steam below the bowl to melt the chocolate. Stir the chocolate as it starts to melt. When there are a couple of small unmelted chocolate chips, remove the bowl from heat (still using potholders) and put onto a heatproof surface. The residual heat will melt the rest of the tiny pieces, so simply stir until smooth. Â
- If you are more comfortable melting chocolate in the microwave, put your chocolate chips into a medium glass microwave-safe bowl. Microwave for 20-30 seconds at a time (depending on the strength of your microwave), stir with a spatula, and repeat. When the chocolate chips are mostly melted but you can still see a couple of pieces remaining, set it aside and stir well until smooth.Â
- Once you have your chocolate melted, use a small spoon to fill your molds. If you are making them solid, you can fill them all and simply chill them in the fridge for an hour (or until solid). To make the transfer of the molds to your fridge easier, place the molds on a plate or sheet pan before you fill them.
- If you plan to fill them, only add enough chocolate to fill about 1/3 of the mold shape. Add your filling (we used chocolate candy coated sprinkles and sunbutter). Do not overfill them – start slow and you’ll get a feel for how much to add. Top your filling with more chocolate. You can see I overfilled a couple of ours and they still worked, were still delicious, but weren’t as professional looking. 🙂
- Chill for an hour or until solid. Â
- Eat, share, enjoy! 🙂
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Ingredients & Tools
- 1 – 12 ounce bag Chocolate chips – the type is up to you, but it must be able to melt (I used semi-sweet)
- Sprinkles, peanut butter, sun butter, freeze dried berries, nuts/seeds, crystalized ginger or anything else you may want to fill the truffles with
- You need molds for your truffles, and some like a double boiler to melt the chocolate. If you want to melt chocolate in the microwave, I added the instructions below. Bonus of the molds is that you can use them to make cute little (less junky) candies, to make little soaps, candles, crayons, or even super cute ice cubes! 🙂
Instructions
- Melt your chocolate! I melted my chocolate chips on the stove by bringing about an inch of water to a boil in a saucepan. Set a heatproof (microwave/oven safe) glass bowl on top of the mouth of the saucepan and ensure that it fits well so it doesn’t move around. Use potholders to protect your hand and to make sure the bowl is secure while you stir. See photos below for a visual. Make sure the bowl and water are not touching. You want the steam below the bowl to melt the chocolate. Stir the chocolate as it starts to melt. When there are a couple of small unmelted chocolate chips, remove the bowl from heat (still using potholders) and put onto a heatproof surface. The residual heat will melt the rest of the tiny pieces, so simply stir until smooth. Â
- If you are more comfortable melting chocolate in the microwave, put your chocolate chips into a medium glass microwave-safe bowl. Microwave for 20-30 seconds at a time (depending on the strength of your microwave), stir with a spatula, and repeat. When the chocolate chips are mostly melted but you can still see a couple of pieces remaining, set it aside and stir well until smooth.Â
- Once you have your chocolate melted, use a small spoon to fill your molds. If you are making them solid, you can fill them all and simply chill them in the fridge for an hour (or until solid). To make the transfer of the molds to your fridge easier, place the molds on a plate or sheet pan before you fill them.
- If you plan to fill them, only add enough chocolate to fill about 1/3 of the mold shape. Add your filling (we used chocolate candy coated sprinkles and sunbutter). Do not overfill them – start slow and you’ll get a feel for how much to add. Top your filling with more chocolate. You can see I overfilled a couple of ours and they still worked, were still delicious, but weren’t as professional looking. 🙂
- Chill for an hour or until solid. Â
- Eat, share, enjoy! 🙂