Chocolate Truffle Recipes

You can thank Kyle Phillips, About's Italian Cuisine Guide, for this wonderful pair of recipes. They each include almonds and hazlenuts.

Carroll Pellegrinelli, Guide to Baking/Desserts offers up this truffle recipe made with three kinds of chocolate, cream, butter and amaretto.

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.

Southern U.S. Cuisine Guide Diana Rattray provides a simple recipe for the classic truffle.

Lowfat cream cheese give these truffles their rich, guilt-free texture. From Carroll Pellegrinelli, About Guide to Baking/Desserts.

A time-consuming recipe if you use fresh instead of canned chestnuts, but it makes for a very interesting variation on chocolate 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.

These festive truffles are also from About's Southern U.S. Cuisine Guide.

Southern U.S. Cuisine Guide Diana Rattray offers this variation made with a classic southern flavor.

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!

This delicious recipe from Guide Diana Rattray includes milk chocolate, heavy cream and Kahlua.

This simple recipe from Busy Cooks Guide Linda Larsen comes from Kraft's Celebrate the Holidays cookbook.

This recipe includes Amaretto. Much of the labor is reduced by chilling in a pan and cutting instead of rolling the individual truffles.

This recipe from Gourmet Magazine is like a dessert and beverage all wrapped up in one package.

Here's an unusual flavoring ingredient in an easy recipe, from Gourmet Magazine.

Dark chocolate, white chocolate and macadamia nuts take you to heaven in this recipe.

This recipe from Gourmet Magazine uses dried cranberries.

This recipe gets extra flavors from honey and rum.

This site has a collection of over two dozen truffle recipes.

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.

Review of Black Truffle Chocolates from Marco Island, Florida.