Cooking with Kids: Making Chocolate Truffles

Ingredients:
100 grams milk chocolate drops (chocolate chips)
25 grams (1 ounce) butter
25 grams (1 ounce) icing sugar (powdered sugar)
50 grams (2 ounces) plain cake, crumbled into fine crumbs
4 tablespoons chocolate sugar strands
small paper cases

• Fill a saucepan 1/4 full of water and heat until boiling.


• Place the chocolate and butter into a bowl. Place the bowl into the pan of heated water. Use oven gloves or have a grown up helper.


• Stir the chocolate and butter until it has all melted. Carefully lift the bowl out of the water. Use oven gloves or a grown up helper.


• Using a sieve, sift the icing sugar into the bowl. Add the cake crumbs and stir everything well to make a smooth mixture.


• Leave the chocolate to cool in the bowl. While it cools, spread out the sugar strands onto a plate.


• When the mixture is firm and thick, scoop some up with a teaspoon and form into a small ball. Roll it around in the sugar strands until well coated.Touch the chocolate with your fingers as little as possible as it will melt.


• Put the truffle into a paper case. then, make the rest of the truffles in the same way. Put them all onto a plate.


• Put the plate into the fridge for 30 minutes to chill. Store them in an airtight container in the fridge.

These truffles do not last long, so eat them up quickly.