Peanut Butter Truffles

Total Time: 4 hrs 50 mins Preparation Time: 4 hrs 30 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 80
• 1 cup whipping cream
• 1 lb sweet baking chocolate, very finely chopped (see note)
• 2 ounces sweet baking chocolate, very finely chopped
• 6 tablespoons natural-style peanut butter (do not use hydrogenated)
• 3/4 cup roasted salted peanuts
• 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, in block form
• dutch-processed cocoa powder

Recipe

• 1 place cream in wide, 2-quart saucepan over medium heat until it just comes to a simmer.
• 2 remove from heat and immediately sprinkle milk chocolate into cream.
• 3 cover and let sit 5 minutes; the heat should melt the chocolate.
• 4 stir very gently until smooth.
• 5 stir in peanut butter until well blended.
• 6 pour mixture into shallow bowl and cool to room temperature.
• 7 cover with plastic wrap and allow to sit, preferable overnight, until firm enough to roll. (or refrigerate until firm, about 4 hours).
• 8 chop peanuts finely.
• 9 grate bittersweet chocolate on largest holes of box grater.
• 10 toss peanuts and chocolate together in medium, bowl.
• 11 coat your hands with cocoa powder and roll ganache into 3/4 to 1 inch balls.
• 12 toss truffles in chocolate-peanut coating (you may have to press the coating onto the truffles).
• 13 place in fluted paper cups, if desired, and serve at room temperature.
• 14 note: chocolate is called milk couverture chocolate or use confectionary coating.