5 Ingredient Amaretto Truffles

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5 Ingredient Amaretto Truffles

Only 5 ingredients in these simple, rich and delicious Amaretto Truffles. An easy, no bake recipe to whip up with the flavor of Amaretto that is a perfect holiday dessert for the adult crowd to enjoy! Makes for great gift giving as well!

Prep Time10

Cook Time5

Total Time25

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American, Italian

Servings: truffles

Calories: 68kcal

Author: Lorie Yarro

Ingredients

10 oz. dark chocolate chips, or chopped bars
⅔ c heavy whipping cream (or full fat coconut cream for dairy free)
3 T amaretto liqueur
½ teaspoon almond extract
⅓ c cocoa powder

Instructions

Place chocolate in a medium bowl.
Over medium heat, add cream or coconut cream to sauce pan and stir frequently, bringing to a simmer. (about 185°F)
Pour milk over chocolate and stir until smooth and creamy.
Add amaretto and almond extract and stir until blended and creamy. Chill for about 4 hours.
After chilling, use a cookie scoop to spoon out enough to make one inch balls. (These can get sticky. Start a ball and then roll it lightly to dust in cocoa powder. This will help keep your hands from being a chocolate mess. You can lightly spray your hands with oil as well)
Roll truffles in cacao powder. You can also roll them in sprinkles or chopped nuts! The size you make your truffles will vary the amount you get!

Notes

Make sure not to overheat the cream. The only major issue you may have when making these amaretto truffles is with the cream. If you don't heat it up enough, the chocolate won't melt. If you overheat it, the chocolate will burn and that's not good either. Heating the cream to 185° is pretty idea.
You can coat your amaretto truffles with more chocolate. You can add even more chocolate goodness by melting and dipping the chilled truffles into chocolate. If doing so, make sure the truffles are well chilled, or even pop them in the freezer for an hour before coating them.
These are not kid friendly. Since these truffles aren't baked, there is definitely alcohol in them. Not a lot, but still enough to make them adult only. You could skip the amaretto and double the almond extract for a more kid friendly option.

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