I meant to make these for Dan's mom on Mother's Day, since turtle chocolate is one of her favorite candy treats. But, things got busy and I didn't have time to whip up a batch of truffles before our trip to Boston last weekend. I ended up buying her some Godiva chocolates, but I really wish I could have given her some of these turtle truffles. Maybe next year.
Word on the street is that grocery stores actually sell bags of crushed graham crackers. I don't know which stores these are, but I've never seen one that sold graham cracker crumbs. Every time I make cheese cake I have to crush my own frickin' crackers. FYI, crushing crackers with the bottom of a glass is way more effective than using a food processor.
I had two containers of marscapone cheese left over from the last time I made tiramisu, so I decided to use that for my cheesecake base instead of the usual Philadelphia cream cheese. I originally thought that three months in the fridge would have ruined the marscapone, but it was totally fine. That makes me a little worried about the amount of preservatives in the stuff, but...I'm not going to think about that right now.
Remember how much trouble I had coating those chocolate chip cookie dough truffles? No problems this time! Jade over at the Steamy Kitchen blog had the perfect method for dipping truffles: (1) make sure the melted chocolate is nice and liquid-y, (2) drop the cheesecake ball into the mixture and make sure it's well covered, then (3) lift it out with a fork and let the excess chocolate run out through the tines of the fork. Voila!
Oh man, these truffles are so good. They actually taste like cheesecake! Which is already good in and of itself, but when you cover it in chocolate, drizzle it with caramel, and top it with nuts...amazing!
Recipe can be found here, courtesy of the Steamy Kitchen Blog.
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7 comments:
feed me this next time i visit dc!
I found the graham cracker crumbs once.r They were in the baking aisle in the market. They were more than twice as expensive! Keep crushing them :-)
I love truffles!
For those who are vegan,check out this great vegan alternative: http://www.fourgreensteps.com/community/recipes/59/2910
Anonymous, that's an amazing idea! I would have never thought to use blended cashews as a cream substitute, but that's brilliant. I'll have to make these for my vegan friends sometime :)
Wow! this is so great.. wanna try this one.=)
Oh my goodness these look outrageous!
My sisters and I have a linky party every Sunday called Everyday Sisters Sharing Sundays. We pick a theme each week and this week's theme is Chocolate. We would like to invite you to come by and link up your favorite chocolate recipes. The link is opened all week (until Sat) so please come by and say hi.
http://everydaysisters.blogspot.com/2011/07/everyday-sisters-sharing-sundays-3.html
Ellen
http://everydaysisters.blogspot.com
easiest way to crush graham crackers --- place crackers in a gal size ziploc bag, sqeeze air out, close bag, use a rolling pin and roll over bag!
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