Monday, March 14, 2011

Bailey's White Truffles and St. Pat's Blog Crawl!

Welcome to the first Celebrity Cook-Along! I'm also happy to be joining Cuisine Kathleen's St. Patrick's Day Blog Crawl today, always a fun time:@) I invited everyone to join me in making these
Baileys Irish Cream White Truffles 
It's an Ina Garten recipe and they are amazing! 
To add to the St. Pat's celebration I decorated them with a Drizzle-O-Green!
White Truffles with Bailey's Irish Cream
2 Tblsp heavy cream
7oz good white chocolate, chopped
2 Tblsp Irish Cream liqueur such as Bailey's
1/2 tsp good vanilla extract
1/2 C chopped hazelnuts
6oz bittersweet or dark chocolate, chopped
  1. Place cream in heat proof bowl over simmering water, cook till heated through.
  2. Slowly stir white chocolate into cream with a whisk until it's melted.
  3. Stir in Bailey's and vanilla. Cover and chill about one hour in fridge till pliable but firm enough to scoop.
  4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  5. With two teaspoons or 1 1/4" ice cream scoop make dollops of white chocolate and place on baking sheet lined with parchment. Refrigerate about 15 minutes or until firm enough to roll into balls.
  6. Place hazelnuts on sheet pan and bake for 8 minutes. Cool to room temperature.
  7. Melt bittersweet/dark chocolate in heat proof bowl over simmering water.
  8. Drizzle chocolate over some of the truffles, roll the rest in crushed hazelnuts.
  9. Chill until ready to serve.
Notes:
  1. I used Ghirardelli white chocolate chips.
  2. The drizzle is melted white chips with a little shortening and icing coloring.
  3. The truffles definitely need some kind of coating on the outside, preferably dipped in melted chocolate or at least rolled in sugar or the nuts (which I didn't use). 
  4. I used my 1 1/4" cookie scoop, it made 10 truffles.
  5. They are very creamy and you can really taste the Baileys!
  6. I just noticed... totally unintentional that the squiggly one on the left looks kinda like a snake!
Did you make the truffles or a different Ina recipe? 
Can't wait to see what you made, link up! No problem sharing an older post.

Then let's get the parade started and see how Blogland is celebrating St. Patrick's Day!

I told Kathleen I'd bring the green beer to her party, 
I just hope she has enough corned beef for these party crashers too!
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