Dan Cake Mini Rum Truffle Cakes 225g

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I usually get about 35-40 regular size chocolate truffles from this recipe, but it will depends on how big or small you make yours. Can I scale up or down this recipe? Don’t stir the chocolate and cream too soon, otherwise the ganache might split What makes this recipe work Keep the truffles wrapped or stored in an airtight container in cold, dark place, but not in a fridge. Chocolate Truffles Troubleshooting These cake truffles remind me a type of cake dessert sold in a sweet shops when I was growing up. It was quite large (like 4-5 cm) and round and was called ‘ the potato’. Probably not the nicest name anyone could have invented, but I guess it was because the cake ball was not perfectly round and rolled in cocoa powder resembling the actual potato. The alcohol will help to preserve them, but since we’ve not use any other preservatives and we’ve not rolled the truffles in a tempered chocolate to seal the truffles in, only make them for immediate use. How to store these truffles

The fab combination of cake and chocolate, which makes these truffles soft and moreish. Any specialist equipment needed? Yes, absolutely! I often make just 1/2 of this recipe, which is about 18 truffles. You can easily double or triple the recipe ingredients to make more truffles. Add the chopped up chocolate and leave to melt. If the mixture is too cold to melt, just heat it gently until all chocolate is melted. This can be done easily in a microwave. If you are making a smaller amount (like 1/2 of the recipe) warm up the cream and chocolate at the same time. The cream doesn’t need to boil, it just needs to be warm enough to melt the chocolate, so if you melt them together, you’ll save time. Variation on this recipeThese Rum truffle with cake crumbs are fairly straightforward to make, so hopefully you won’t have any difficulties in making these. You might like to use catering gloves for rolling out the chocolate truffles, but other than that, no there is nothing special you will need for this recipe. Pro tip Using your catering gloves again, take about a large teaspoon of the mixture together and form a ball. Add the vanilla extract and the pinch of salt to the cream mixture and blend in. When nearly cold, add the rum or rum essence and then add into the cake crumbs and mix well till evenly combined. To make this recipe at home (or at least as close to the shop bought one as possible) add the following (in small quantities first, then taste it and add more if needed)

The main difference is that the shop bought version also includes fruit juice from lots of different fruits, lemon juice finely milled nuts and rum essence. These cake truffles were originally inspired by the popular cake truffles available in the shops around Christmas time. I remember my mum would buy us one ‘potato’ each, so we wouldn’t need to share and I quite often could not even finish mine. As delicious as it was, it was also quite filling!

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To be on a safe side, eat these truffles within 7 days, although their actual expiry date might be a little longer than that. The 275g of cake is based on a shop bought Madeira cake which you can buy in most supermarkets, so if you want to double or triple your recipe, just buy 2 or 3 cakes (or bake equivalent in weight). Place the cake sponge in a bowl and crumble the cake either by rubbing with your hands (it’s best to use catering food gloves for this) or using a food processor.