Apple & Brandy Truffle

Ingredients

  • 225g Apple Puree (SCF0850)
  • 25g Lemon Juice
  • 8g Pectin (SCA132)
  • 250g Caster Sugar
  • 60g Glucose (SCA119)
  • 5g Tartaric Acid (SCA134) (1 to 1 – tartaric acid crystals and water dispersed together)
  • 300g Whipping Cream (SCM280P)
  • 10g Invert Sugar (SCA107)
  • 400g Cacao Barry Ghana (SCC106B)
  • 40g Butter
  • 75 Milk Truffle Shells (SCS401)
  • 150g Milk Chocolate for enrobing (SCC1106B)
  • 30g Truffle Powder Green for decoration (SCC9846)
  • 25ml St. Remy XO Brandy 60% Concentrated Alcohol

Method

Tart apple paté de fruit meets rich brandy ganache in this exquisite Origin chocolate and alcohol truffles recipe. Pairing the crisp sweetness of a green apple with the powerful cacao hit of Cacao Barry Origin Ghana 40% Milk Chocolate, these eye-catching truffles will surprise you with their moreishness!

How to make Apple and Brandy Truffles:

Approx. 75 truffles at 10g each. 

Apple Pate de Fruit

  1. Heat the apple purée and lemon juice then whisk in the pectin with 50g of the caster sugar 
  2. Boil, stirring for 2-3 minutes, then add the remaining sugar and glucose 
  3. Cook to 107°C 
  4. Remove from heat and add the Tartaric solution 
  5. Cool then blitz in a hand blender to loosen for piping 
  6. Pipe into the milk chocolate truffle shells to half full  

Brandy Ganache

  1. Heat the glucose, cream, sugar and Ghana Origin milk chocolate gently in the microwave until an emulsion can be reached 
  2. Then add the butter in cubes, followed by the St. Remy XO brandy, and combine well 
  3. Pipe into the milk chocolate truffle shells (SCS401) on top of the Apple Pate de Fruit, close off with chocolate and allow to set 
  4. Enrobe each truffle in more tempered Ghana and roll in green truffle powder or Hybrid Petal Dust

Enjoyed this recipe? Next time, add a little romance by swapping the apple purée for strawberry, switch the brandy for Marc de Champagne, the milk chocolate for white chocolate, and roll in pink truffle powder!

Approximate costs

£24.23
1588g batch approx
£0.32
per Truffle
Please note: All costs are based on current Keylink List prices and up-to-date supermarket prices for non-Keylink products. These are given in good faith. These recipe costs could be lower if you benefit from Keylink discounts.