Goat’s Cheese Chocolate Truffles
Who’s tried goat’s cheese chocolate truffles before? If you haven’t you’re in for a surprising treat. They make a fitting end to a dinner party meal and will be much appreciated by any self respecting chocolate and cheese lover on any occasion.
Rococo Chocolates
Way way back many months ago, I was unable to attend a blogger’s event at Chantal Coady’s Rococo chocolate factory. I read many accounts of the fabulous time had by all. The highlight for most, other than indulging themselves with chocolate, was a demonstration of how to make goat’s cheese truffles.
I’ve heard many accounts of how well these two unlikely ingredients work together and indeed I’ve tried the combination out for myself on several occasions. These chocolate goat’s cheese tarts are one such. They’re so good, I keep coming back to them again and again.
Goat’s Cheese Chocolate Truffles
It wasn’t, however, until I hosted a six course chocolate themed dinner party back in July that I got around to trying out goat’s cheese chocolate truffles. I thought they’d make a fitting and interesting end to the meal. Annoyingly, I didn’t have a recipe and after looking on the internet and getting baffled by all the myriad permutations I found there, I just made up my own very simple version.
Goodness gracious me! These truffles were as delicious as I’d hoped. They finished the meal off very nicely indeed. I decided to use a sweet milk chocolate rather than a bitter dark one as I thought it might combine better with the saltiness and the goaty tang.
Even with the milk chocolate and addition of sugar, these were almost, but not quite savoury. They made a fine stand-in for the traditional cheese and fruit course.
They are very simple to make. It’s just a case of melting the chocolate and then mixing everything together. It takes a while for the mixture to set enough so that you can roll them into balls, so although they’re not at all difficult, you will need a bit of time before they’re ready to serve.
These goat’s cheese chocolate truffles would make excellent Christmas gifts for the more adventurous chocolate or cheese lover. Indeed, if I get my act together I’ll be making another batch in time for the festivities. They’d also be perfect served up on Valentine’s Day or as a nice birthday gift for a chocolate and cheese lover like me – just saying!
Other Goat’s Cheese Recipes You Might Like
- Beetroot muffins with walnuts & goat’s cheese
- Honeyed fig & goat’s cheese tart
- Pumpkin muffins with goat’s cheese & tarragon
- Shakshuka with goat’s cheese
- Squash pizza with walnuts & goat’s cheese
- Spinach filo pastries with goat’s cheese
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Goat’s Cheese Chocolate Truffles. PIN IT.
Goat’s Cheese Chocolate Truffles
Ingredients
- 150 g milk chocolate (37% or higher)
- 150 g soft goat’s cheese
- 1 tbsp golden caster sugar
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
Instructions
- Melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of hot, but not boiling, water. Then leave to cool a little.
- Beat the cheese with the sugar.
- Stir in the chocolate until all incorporated.
- Place in the fridge to set for a couple of hours.
- Sift the cocoa powder into a bowl.
- Roll teaspoonfuls of the ganache into balls using your hands, then drop them into the cocoa. Roll them around until fully coated.
- Place back in the fridge until ready to eat.
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Linkies
This month’s Tea Time Treats is for Festive Foodie Gifts, so I am sending some of these cheesy truffles to join the prettily packaged tea time table over at What Kate Baked. I expect Karen of Lavender and Lovage will be taking a look-in too.
These sweet and savoury truffles weren’t exactly small, but they are in individual portions. This makes them eligible for Treat Petite with Cakeyboi and The Baking Explorer. The theme this month is Happy Holidays.
Recipe of the Week with Emily over at A Mummy Too also gets to enjoy one or two of these fabulous truffles.
What an interesting combination! If only the internet allowed us to taste what we read… Thank you very much for entering TTT and Happy Christmas!
If you haven’t experienced good truffles, the best I can do is to describe them this way: Truffles act on the brain. Their taste and aroma nearly overwhelm the senses, flirting with mental associations of over-indulgence and decadence, even naughtiness. Eating them at a restaurant, you might feel like you’re doing something that shouldn’t be done in public. This, of course, is part of their charm, and goes a long way to explain their cachet and expense.
Hey this is really new! Great idea to use goats cheese. A fab match with chocolate. Your truffles look simply divine!!!
How come didn’t I think of using goat cheese in chocolate truffles!! They look exquisite!
I’ve seen this combination but am nervous about trying it – I suppose you have to pick a relatively mild goats cheese?
Love this cheese and chocolate business! I can imagine these flavours pairing very well… especially being milk chocolate instead of dark. Maybe we should make a whole cheesy chocolate box? 🙂
I would love to try this combination of flavours, as I love both goat’s cheese and chocolate. Brilliant idea!
Now I could so totally eat these!!! Chocolate and goat cheese go so well together!!!
I wonder if some chocolate averse friends would enjoy these with the more savoury twist – I love the sound of these on a cheeseboard
Oooh lovely looking balls. ;0)
I’d love to try these. I can image them being very rich and creamy with a nice tang from the goats cheese. So inventive