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Chocolate Truffle Recipes

Recipes for making your own chocolate truffles. Despite their decadence, they're actually pretty simple to create at home.
Sweet Black and White Truffles
You can thank Kyle Phillips, About's Italian Cuisine Guide, for this wonderful pair of recipes. They each include almonds and hazlenuts.
Amaretto Truffles
Carroll Pellegrinelli, Guide to Baking/Desserts offers up this truffle recipe made with three kinds of chocolate, cream, butter and amaretto.
Classic Bittersweet Chocolate-Cognac Truffles
This recipe from Home Cooking Guide Peggy Trowbridge has extensive instructions. It's a little more involved than many truffle recipes, but it would be a good instructional recipe for a novice.
Chocolate Truffles
Southern U.S. Cuisine Guide Diana Rattray provides a simple recipe for the classic truffle.
Cherry Truffles
This recipe from Vegetarian Cuisine Guide Tiffany Refior uses dried cherries, dates and raisins, but most importantly, silken tofu.
Lowfat Mint Chocolate Truffles
Lowfat cream cheese give these truffles their rich, guilt-free texture. From Carroll Pellegrinelli, About Guide to Baking/Desserts.
Chocolate Chestnut Truffles
A time-consuming recipe if you use fresh instead of canned chestnuts, but it makes for a very interesting variation on chocolate truffles.
Coconut Macadamia Truffles
Home Cooking Guide Peggy Trowbridge shares a Gourmet Magazine recipe for very decadent variation that includes rum as well as coconut, heavy cream and macadamia nuts.
Orange Chocolate Truffles
These festive truffles are also from About's Southern U.S. Cuisine Guide.
Praline Truffles
Southern U.S. Cuisine Guide Diana Rattray offers this variation made with a classic southern flavor.
Toasted Almond White Chocolate Truffles
Peggy Trowbridge from About's Home Cooking site provides us with this recipe for a white chocolate variation. You won't get the antioxidant benefits from white chocolate, but the addition of almonds can still help you to justify the health benefits!
White Russian Truffles
This delicious recipe from Guide Diana Rattray includes milk chocolate, heavy cream and Kahlua.
Cashew Truffles
This simple recipe from Busy Cooks Guide Linda Larsen comes from Kraft's Celebrate the Holidays cookbook.
Chocolate Almond Truffle Squares
This recipe includes Amaretto. Much of the labor is reduced by chilling in a pan and cutting instead of rolling the individual truffles.
Chocolate Espresso SambucaTruffles
This recipe from Gourmet Magazine is like a dessert and beverage all wrapped up in one package.
Chocolate Star Anise Truffles
Here's an unusual flavoring ingredient in an easy recipe, from Gourmet Magazine.
Chocolate Surprise Truffles
This recipe from Hershey's Kitchens includes a surprise center of your choice.
Chocolate Truffle Heaven
Dark chocolate, white chocolate and macadamia nuts take you to heaven in this recipe.
Chocolate Truffles
This classic recipe from Godiva uses their chocolate bars, but any quality chocolate can be substituted.
Cookies and Cream Truffles
The Oreo cookies in this recipe are tempting, but be warned that raw egg yolks are also part of this dish.
Cranberry Milk-Chocolate Truffles
This recipe from Gourmet Magazine uses dried cranberries.
Fleur de Lys Chocolate Truffles
This recipe gets extra flavors from honey and rum.
Just Chocolate Recipes - Truffle Recipes
This site has a collection of over two dozen truffle recipes.
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Truffles
Peanut butter chips and sweetened condensed milk are the unusual additions to this recipe.
Strawberry Truffles
This is probably the least tradtional recipe I found. It includes fresh strawberries, cream cheese, coconut and ginger root among the rest.
New Tree Gourmet Belgian Chocolates
This company's tag line is "here's always an excuse to eat chocolate, New Tree Gives you a reason." The reason is they promote the health benefits of their chocolates and the mood adjusting possibilities of them with flavors such as Tranquility, Comfort, and Renew. Whether or not that's true, these chocolates taste great.

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