Chocolate Truffles


Ingredients

4 oz Butter
3 teaspoons cocoa powder
250gms Icing Sugar/Powdered Sugar
1/2 teaspoon flavoring e.g.: vanilla, raspberry, mint, strawberry
Chopped nuts, dried fruit - sultanas, raisins, apricots, ginger, chocolate chips
2 cups finely shredded coconut
3 cups chocolate drops (for dipping)

Directions

Cream the butter with flavoring till pale in colour. Beat
in cocoa powder, adding a little more if you want the mix a
darker colour. Add the Icing Sugar/powdered sugar, a 1/4
cup at a time till you get the mixture to the stiffness that
you like. Then add what ever fruit and nut combination you
want. Taste for flavour and add more if needed. Roll into
Tsp size balls,in the coconut and let it get firm. Freeze
the coconut covered balls; then dip them in chocolate.



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