Piped Rum Truffles

Chocolate truffles are a bestseller everyone loves! Learn how to make a liquor ganache, a chocolate foot using a chablon, and how to pipe beautiful spheres.

Recipe

Created by
  • Philippe Vancayseele - Master Chocolatier Senior, Callebaut Chocolate Academy™ Montreal

Chocolate and Rum Ganache

ingredients preparation
  • 200g
    Heavy Cream 35%
  • 45g
    inverted sugar
  • 20g
    sorbitol powder
  • 65g
    rum
  • 430g
    811NV
  • 100g
    823NV
  1. Boil the cream, the inverted sugar and the sorbitol.
  2. Place the chocolates into a tall recipient.
  3. Once the cream preparation is boiling, pour it onto the chocolates and mix using an immersion blender.
  4. Add the rum and continue blending until completely smooth.
  5. In the meantime, use a damp towel to attach a plastic sheet to the metal tray and re-move the air bubbles.
  6. Place the chablon onto the plastic sheet. Pour precrystallized dark chocolate onto it and spread the chocolate out evenly using an offset spatula.
  7. Scrape the excess chocolate off.
  8. Gently remove the chablon and let set at 18-20°C (64-68°F).
  9. Pour the liquor ganache onto a stainless steel tray and spread it out to cool it down and to precrystallize it. Continue until obtaining a good piping consistency.
  10. Transfer the ganache into a piping bag with an 8 mm (0.31”) piping tip and immediately pipe onto the chocolate discs.
  11. Let set at 18-20°C (64-68°F) until firm enough to be dipped.

Dipping

ingredients preparation
  • icing sugar
  • 811NV
  1. Start dipping the truffles into precrystallized dark chocolate and immediately roll them into icing sugar.
  2. Allow the chocolate to fully crystallize, and then remove the excess icing sugar with gloved hands.