'Truffle' - sweets delicious and simple to prepare

For today, such sweets as Truffle are in great demand. So, "Truffle" - candies of round shape, named after the fungus, because they are very similar to him. Inside the sweets contains chocolate creamy cream, sometimes with various additives, and on top - chocolate, cocoa frosting, ground nuts and wafer crumbs.

Factory production of sweets involves filling different fillings of ready-made chocolate halves to reduce production time. However, at home, you can cook no less delicious sweets.

Below we consider how to make candy houses "truffles", the composition of which presupposes the presence of black chocolate bars, half a plate of milk chocolate, as well as one hundred grams of cream, two spoons of cognac.

Cream should be brought to a boil and immediately removed from the fire, add the chocolate in them and completely dissolve it there. The resulting mixture should be cooled, add cognac to it and put it in a cold place for a couple of hours. When the cooled mass thickens, balls are formed from it with the help of tea spoons, while the balls fall off in waffle or coconut shavings. Ready-made "Truffle" sweets are very delicious, they can be consumed with tea or other drinks. It should be noted that in the process of making sweets, you can also replace cognac with liqueur or rum.

In today's world, there are more than twenty countries that produce Truffle. So, you can note the truffles of Spanish, Belgian, Italian or French. And the latter have an interesting story dating back to the reign of Louis XIV. To date, the recipe for these sweets has remained unchanged.

So, the "French truffle" candies are the most popular and are in great demand, since they include high-quality chocolate with the addition of liqueur. At the same time, the liqueur can be creamy, caramel, with the taste of chocolate or mocha. Such a delicacy perfectly suits as a dessert for any table.

Although cooked at home, sweets are in no way inferior to factory ones. Below is another recipe for cooking "Truffle".

So, to prepare "Truffle" (candy), you need to prepare a half kilogram of sugar, half a liter of water, ¼ pack of butter, a hundred grams of cocoa, nuts.

First you need to melt the butter and gently pour hot water into it, mix it and put it aside. Cocoa, mixed with sugar, poured into the oil, mixed and put on a slow fire to boil for ten minutes, not letting the mass boil. After that, everything should be cooled, shaped balls, roll them in ground nuts and put in a cold place for a couple of hours. It should be said that sweets can be created in any form, and as a powder, you can use cocoa, biscuit or wafer crumb, powdered sugar. Inside the truffle is often put alcoholized cherries or walnuts.

During the preparation of sweets it is necessary to exclude from the recipe products rich in vegetable fats. Ready-made sweets are stored in a dry place at a temperature not exceeding eighteen degrees.

Thus, "Truffle" (sweets) in its composition contain a large amount of vitamins, monosaccharides, food fibers, ashes, as well as water, proteins, carbohydrates and fats.

It is necessary to remember that the cocoa, included in the composition of sweets, does not have cholesterol, but at the same time it is a high-calorie product, therefore it is not recommended to use such delicacy daily in large quantities. In addition, it has serotonin, acting as a "hormone of happiness." In this case, "Truffle" is considered the safest sweets for the human body.

Regardless of whether candy is prepared at home or at a factory, they are able to give joy to every person, regardless of age, gender and position in society.