Valentine’s amaretto truffles

• Produce

  • 3 Beetroots, medium

• Condiments

  • 2 tbsp Maple syrup

• Baking & Spices

  • 125 g Dark chocolate

• Oils & Vinegars

  • 1 tsp Coconut oil

• Nuts & Seeds

  • 1 handful Almonds

• Dairy

  • 5 tbsp Coconut cream/milk

• Beer, Wine & Liquor

  • 8 tsp Amaretto liqueur

Found on lazycatkitchen.com

Description

Directions

• Set the oven to 80°C / 175°F. Line a baking tray with a piece of baking paper. Slice the beetroots super thinly and arrange them on a baking tray. Ideally they should not overlap, but they will shrink in the oven pretty quickly, so if you have trouble fitting them all in overlap them a little. Bake for about 2 hours, they should be dry to the touch when done. Once you take them out of the oven they’ll crisp up a little more.Grind dried out beetroots to a fine powder in your coffee grinder and sift before using to make sure you get rid of any larger, unground pieces.Take an unopened 100 g bar of chocolate and hit it against your work bench a few times so that the inside breaks up into small pieces. Take the remaining 25 g you will need for this recipe and chop it finely with a knife. Place the entire 125 g of chocolate pieces in a large glass bowl.Place the bowl with chocolate over a pot of water (make sure the water does not touch the bottom of the bowl) and bring the water to simmer. Simmer gently (on low heat) until all the chocolate has melted.Warm up milk in a separate pot. Once the chocolate melts completely, take the bowl off the heat and stir in warmed-up milk whisking gently the whole time. The chocolate may go a little funny at first, but carry on stirring and it will become glossy again. Mix in (one by one) maple syrup, amaretto and coconut oil stirring after each addition.If you are adding chopped almonds for extra crunch, add them into the chocolate mixture once it cooled down (but not hardened) completely or else they will lose some of their crunchiness.When the mixture cools down, cover the bowl with cling film and leave it in the fridge for a few hours (or overnight) until it has hardened.Scoop out a teaspoon of the thickened mixture at a time and roll into balls.Roll them in beetroot powder.