The holidays are all about celebrating with friends and family and enjoying homemade baking. With the holidays being so busy, its difficult to make everything from scratch. Why not host a party, inviting over a few close friends, and bake together, stocking your freezer with a delicious assortment of cookies and bars without spending several days in the kitchen?
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Coffee Liqueur Chocolate Truffles
Instructions for Making the Truffles
Ingredients
Use the following ingredients to make the truffles:
1 pound bittersweet chocolate
3/4 cup cream
8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter
2 tablespoons coffee liqueur, adjust to taste
8 ounces (to 16 oz.
A cutting tool for use in making cookie patterns cut into dough to form the shape of a holiday or seasonal object such as an angel, a pumpkin, a star, a tree, or a snowman.
A kitchen tool that is used to hold specific amounts of cookie dough so that it can be manually or electrically extruded from this tool onto a baking sheet or pan to create a desired cookie shape.
A rich white or dark chocolate candy containing a center of ingredients such as chocolate, cream, sugar, corn syrup, cocoa butter, flavorings, caramel, nuts, and fruit that are mixed together and formed into a ball shape.