Mint chocolate truffles

This is my go-to truffle recipe. Like other readers, I upped the amount of extract as they are very subtle without and I used half dark/half milk which made them less sickly. A great recipe to experiment with. I have tried them with pistachio extract and coated in pistachio nuts since to great response!

Almost perfect but everybody agreed that it needs more peppermint!

soooo easy! and looks impressive! the supermarket i went to had sold out of peppermint essence so i bought orange essence and instead of dusting with icing sugar i sprayed with edible gold glitter. giving to friends as xmas prezzies. turned out really well :)

I have made these few times and they are so easy and every tasty, as an add extra I have served at the end of a dinner party with a shot of Kahlua with cream floating on top! Its a great way to end a meal.

Not bad for my first attempt at truffles! I went for the half milk/half dark Green & Black's choc as per a previous poster, and doubled the Sainsbury's peppermint essence. They went disastrously wrong and separated, like a lumpy cement with liquid on top. I don't have an electric whisk and stirring seemed to make it worse; after some internet-searching I found a Jamie Oliver tip to add a splash of boiling water and it worked a treat, resulting in a nice smooth ganache. It set in a couple of hours and then rolled easily into balls with my hands. I rolled half in icing sugar and half in cocoa powder, the latter looked better and were easier to do but didn't taste quite as good. The truffles were not minty enough and more essence would have been better.

Beautiful. I did use double the peppermint extract as I personally didn't find it quite minty enough, also substituted half of the milk chocolate for dark chocolate. Turned out wonderful. (I used all sainsburys brand extract and cooking chocolate, you can't tell that it's cheap chocolate!) I have also tried this with orange extract syrup with milk chocolate, coated with orange zest and cocoa powder. I recommend. :)

5/5!

Ridiculously easy to make and come out fantastically. Used 2 tbsp of peppermint essence instead.

Tried this tonight. Instead of icing sugar to coat it, I used a) mint choc powder - good as a coating. b) white choc powder - use options white hot choc powder, worked quite nicely. c) desiccated coconut - delicious Going to take them into work tomorrow and see which one goes first. Very easy to make, and very tasty.

Really easy and delicious!