White Chocolate and Lemon Truffles | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Come in, friends. Look closer. It’s my Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix recipe! It’s a fun and easy one: deliciously magical white chocolate and lemon truffles, decorated to look like the prophecies in the Ministry of Magic.
Ingredients
White chocolate and lemon truffles:
- 400 g [14 oz] white chocolate
- 150 ml [5.5 oz] double [heavy] cream
- 1 - 2 tsp lemon extract or flavour of your choice
Decoration:
- 250 g [8.75 oz] white chocolate
- Pale blue food colouring oil based
- Edible silver glitter
Instructions
- Make the truffle mix. Melt the white chocolate in a microwave safe bowl, microwaving in 20 second bursts and stirring in between so it doesn’t catch.
- Once melted, whisk in the double cream and extract (if using) until smooth. It may look a little strange but whisk until it is as smooth as possible.
- Pour into a container - I used a small cake tin - and chill for at least 5 hours, preferably overnight, until set.
- Once set, sit a spoon/melon baller in a mug of boiling hot water to warm it through.
- Prepare a baking tray by lining it with greaseproof paper/baking parchment.
- Using the hot melon baller, scoop out balls of the truffle mix and place them on the lined baking tray.
- Keep dipping the melon baller into the hot water to keep it warm - this will make this process smoother and quicker!
- Scoop any remaining scraps of truffle mix out and roll in your palms to round the shapes out.
- Chill the truffles in the fridge for at least 1 hour, or for at least 30 minutes in the freezer.
- Over a bain marie (pot of simmering hot water), melt the white chocolate for decorating.
- Gradually add the blue food colouring and whisk into the melting chocolate until you have achieved the right shade.
- Once the chocolate is melted, retrieve your truffles from the fridge/freezer and dip them in using a dipping tool or couple of spoons. Work quickly - before the truffles soften too much that it becomes difficult. They do not need to be super smooth!
- Place them back on the tray and then into the fridge for a few minutes to make sure they are completely set. The chocolate sets quickly once it hits the frozen truffles!
- Finish by spraying the edible silver glitter for that magical effect.
Notes
These enchanting prophecy white chocolate and lemon truffles are best kept in the fridge if the weather is warm, otherwise they will stay solid at room temperature in cooler weather. They are best eaten within 5 days. Enjoy!