February is the chocolate month. Everywhere you turn you see boxes of chocolate candy, chocolate bars, chocolate this, chocolate that so it should come to no surprise this month secret ingredient to our chocolate party is chocolate. Yes, we’re talking double chocolate.
I’m no stranger to double chocolate, I’ve even gone bananas with some triple chocolate cookies, cake and tart. Since tomorrow is Nutella day I’ve decided to add some Nutella to my favorite truffle recipe.
Chocolate party is a monthly event hosted by me together with some wonderful bloggers. Each month we pick an ingredient and pair it with chocolate. We blog about it by the end of the month.
I hope you’ll join our party and bake along with us. Also, if you’d like to know what are we up to and what ingredients we pick for the next parties, join our Facebook group.
All submitted posts will be pinned to the Chocolate party Pinterest board and will be promoted on other social media platform using the #chocolateparty hashtag.
Our recipes will be shared on the first Monday of each month and you can submit your own recipes until the end of the month. You can submit up to 3 recipes each month.
How to participate (the rules)
1.) Blog about your chocolate treat. Your recipe must include the two ingredients we choose. It can be a simple no bake treat or a sophisticated layer cake, the complexity level of the recipe is totally up to you.
2.) Include a link back to this post or the Chocolate party page. Optional, add the Chocolate Party logo in your blog post or on your sidebar.
3.) Your recipe must be published during the current month. Please do not link old recipes, they will be deleted.
These truffles are a mixture of chocolate, cream, butter, chopped hazelnuts and heavenly Nutella.
This recipe is totally foolproof. You can’t mess it up. That’s how simple it is!
Start by heating the heavy cream till the boiling point and pout it over soften butter and the finely chopped chocolate (I’ve used Scharffen Berger 70% but you can use 60 or even darker if you prefer as long as it’s not milk chocolate). Let it sit for few moments and stir until the mixtures becomes smooth, shiny and uniform. Now add Nutella and finally chopped hazelnuts. Mix until combined and chill until easy to handle.
After the mixture is chilled enough to handle, take small pieces (little over a teaspoon) and roll them between your palms to get them (somehow) round. If it gets too sticky, dust your palms with a little cocoa powder.
Once all the balls are done the fun begins. Take out your sprinkles and rolls the truffles to cover. Alternately you can use cocoa powder, powder sugar or finely chopped hazelnuts, but I think the sprinkles are more fun to work with and make the truffles even more irresistible. Don’t you think so?
When you’re done, pour yourself a glass of cold milk, sink your teeth into this little ball of rich creamy chocolate candy and hide. You’ll have a hard time sharing these little treasures.
Nutella Truffles - a rich, smooth, creamy mixture of chocolate, cream, butter, chopped hazelnuts and heavenly Nutella.
Ingredients
- 6 oz chocolate, finely chopped
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1/4 cup soft butter, diced
- 1/3 cup Nutella
- 1/3 cup finely chopped hazelnuts
- sprinkles, cocoa powder, powder sugar or finely chopped hazelnuts for coating
Instructions
- Place the finely chopped chocolate and diced butter in a heatproof bowl.
- Pour the cream into a small saucepan over medium heat. When the cream is just about to boil, pout it over the butter and chocolate. Let it sit for almost 1 minute and slowly whisk it together until it becomes smooth, silky, shiny and uniform chocolate mixture.
- Stir in the Nutella and chopped hazelnuts. Mix to combine.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and place in the fridge for 1-2 hours until easy to handle.
- When the mixture is chilled enough to handle, take small pieces (little over a teaspoon) and roll them between your palms to get them round. If it gets too sticky, dust your palms with a little cocoa powder.
- Once all the balls are done roll them in sprinkles, cocoa powder, powder sugar or finely chopped hazelnuts to cover.
- Keep the truffles in an air-tight container. Serve at room temperature.
Check out what my friends made for you, I’m pretty sure this is how chocolate heaven looks like!
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Yes please! You know my obsession with Nutella, and these are just heavenly!
Yes please, how do I get a dozen of those delivered??
Sounds great!
Whoa, who could resist? Such marvelous double chocolate truffles, Roxana!
I’m in love with these truffles, Roxana! I’ll take a dozen, please!
Love these truffles, Roxana! The way you used the mixture of pink sprinkles with the chocolate sprinkles looks awesome in your beautiful photos!
Irresistible truffles! You are truly a master in making sweets.
Great combination! I love the addition of chopped hazelnuts in these.
Yummy, Roxana! The truffles covered with chocolate sprinkles reminds me of the Brazilian brigadeiros. Beautiful pics, as always!
OMG!!! These look for good!!!!
We have been eating these store bought hazelnut truffles at work Roxana. I can’t wait to make and bring these in!
Wow these look so cute:). I love nutella and this is a must try recipe i think. I am so tempted to make some right away:). love your blog!!! It is beautiful:)
Roxana…how awesome to put nutella in a truffle! How I would love to get a heart shaped box filled with these on Valentine’s day! : )
My love for chocolate and hazelnuts is never-ending, so these are exactly the kind of truffles I would love! So good Roxana!
I never make truffles because they have to be refrigerated. Your recipe says to serve these at room temperature, but is it okay to store them at room temp, too? (Not that they’d last very long…)
Hi Anne,
It depends on how long you plan on keeping them at room temperature. For a couple of hours it’s OK. For more than one day it’s better to keep them cold
Roxana
Thanks for the quick reply! I’ve added this recipe to my to-try list. I hope mine come out half as pretty as yours.
As a fellow chocolate lover these look spectacular. The picture of the half eaten truffle is my favorite
So rich and decadent !
haha! I love that you recommend to go hide with the truffles! I know I wouldn’t want to share that decadent ball of fudge with anyone! The ones in the sprinkles are definitely my favorite! Your pictures looks so awesome too!!!
Mmmm such wonderful perfection!
Roxana, not only are these truffles GORGEOUS but they look SO insanely fudgy, too! I die for Nutella
and I love your pictures! That sprinkly pink truffle pops and I want it!!
So pretty, and tempting! Love the pop of the hot pink against double chocolate
Beautiful shots, Roxana!
These certainly do look like sweets that I would hide and keep all to myself
Yum these truffles are awesome, the photos are great and making me want to grab one.
If I make these truffles and eat them all by myself, is that ok?
Oh my gosh Roxanna, these are STUNNING. I love the pink sprinkles too. Well, and the Nutella. ALWAYS Nutella!
Just heavenly Roxana- love the Nutella in your truffles;-) This is what I call a chocolate party;-)
Save some for me pleeease:) I looove chocolate truffles.
I don’t think I could stop popping one after the other of these.
Surely, I’d get sick but I never know my limits with Nutella. They are so pretty! I love all the sprinkles!
Oh my word, those look like little bites of HEAVEN.
Man, nutella and truffles in the same breath. I think I’ve found my happy place
So cute this truffles!! Great idea!
These look great- thanks for hosting the chocolate party
I love them and they’re even better with those pretty sprinkles
I’m not much of a truffle fan, but I just had to comment on how stunning the pictures were with the contrast of the pink/white/red truffles and the chocolate brown truffles. Beautiful!
Roxanne, Thanks for stopping leaving such a nice comment about my chocolate heart pots! I have to admit, that by sheer luck I entered your chocolate party and didn’t know it was double chocolate month. I guess it was meant to be.
Thanks for hosting! I love your nutella chocolate truffles! I bet they melt in your mouth! Hope to see you again soon.
I happen to have plenty of nutella on hand…and could go to town on these! Gorgeous!
Nutella is a new find in my corner of the world and I am smitten with the lovely chocolate hazelnut spread. So, thank you Roxana for this oh so wonderful truffles recipe =)
Roxana, I swoon every time I visit your blog. Not only because what you make is so decadently delicious but also because of how beautiful your creations are. These truffles and these photos are works of art. I’d hang them on my walls but they’d make me too hungry.
Hi Roxana,
Thanks for organising this event. Love browsing through all the posts that were linked to this event. They look so irresistible… It feels like entering a world of chocolaty heaven…
Zoe
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