Cherry Truffles

300 g chocolate 80% cocoa (min 70%)

85 g butter

120 ml of dried cherries

50 ml caster sugar

40 + 60 ml Cherry brandy (rum, brandy)

1/5 tsp cayenne pepper (chili) powder (optional)

sugarless cocoa powder 

Chop finely dried cherries, pour 40 ml Cherry brandy and let stand until the liquid is almost completely absorbed.

Chop or grate the chocolate, put it in an iron or glass bowl and add 60 ml Cherry brandy

Boil water in a pot, put the bowl with chocolate on the top (the bottom of the bowl shouldn’t touch boiling water),reduce the heat and hold on a water bath, stirring, until the chocolate and butter melted completely and combined.

Remove mixture from the heat, add powdered sugar, chopped cherries, and pepper and mix thoroughly.

Store mixture in refrigerator until it becomes like soft modeling clay, sprinkle cocoa on the work surface. Taking with a spoon small pieces of chocolate mixture, put them onto work surface and make them round or conical form (cone-shaped).

Put them on the tray and cool in refrigerator.

Sprinkle truffles thickly with cocoa.

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