Can't knock the Truffle

There is nothing I love more than a Sunday off, I don't know why but everything about a sunday feels quite relaxed and it doesn't matter if you roll around like a sausage roll in your duvet all morning. Anyhow I only did about 2 hours of sausage rollin then proceeded with full time playa activities. Now this recipes is inspired my one of my ultimate JayZ songs, ''Can't knock the hustle'' from the ''Reasonable doubt'' album. This album always reminds me of my lovely pal Akan who I worked with at Carhartt, our friendship started with a love for JayZ and his inspirational lyrics and I really miss being able to hang out with that playa so much, everyone needs an Akan in their life to provide fun, rap offs, undercover playa outfit ideas and gym training. 

Anyway this recipe is super easy however quite messy and I tell you what those truffles take their sweet ass time to chill. Atleast it gives you time to listen to the whole album right?

''Can't knock the Truffle''

You will need:

 300g Dark chocolate (70% cocoa)

300ml double cream

60g butter

For the decoration:

100g White chocolate

100g Milk Chocolate

Camp coffee

Packet of almonds

Method:

Simply place the 300g of chopped dark chocolate in a large mixing bowl, now it is essential to use good quality chocolate atleast 70% cocoa. Heat the butter and double cream in a saucepan until simmering and pour over the chocolate. You then mix it all together until it is smooth and the chocolate is completely melted. You can then pour the mixture into seperate bowls and add flavouring for your truffles, its totally up to you however I wanted to try a few different concoctions...playas need variation yo! So I added camp coffee to one batch, vanilla essence to another and then kept one plain.

You will then need to let these chill for 4 hours, yes long I know but its got to be done else you'll just end up with a sticky chocolate mess. 

Once set you then use a ''melon baller''...I found this highly amusing and spent a good 5 minutes laughing to myself about the name of this utensil, not realising it was called this as it makes balls of mixture rather than it being a reference to being a hip hop baller. Anyway I didn't have one of those so I just coated my hands lighted in sunflower oil and rolled the truffle mixture in the palms of my hands to create the balls. If you plan on decorating them its best if you do so straight away and as you can see in the photo above you can be experimental as you like adding nuts, caramel, white chocolate what ever you have stashed in those cupboards!

So get Reasonable Doubt on, your melon baller at the ready and keep it gangsta!