White chocolate and liquorice almonds

When Malene was over last week, she showed me how to make these yummy treats, they are very much inspired by the very expensive Summerbird, liquorice almonds :-)

Have a go, they are very easy to make...

All you need is:

Almonds

Good quality white chocolate

liquorice powder 

Cocoa powder

Roast the almonds on a baking tray in the oven for about 5-6 min at 170˚
cover them in melted chocolate
let them cool quite a bit before dusting them with a mixture of liquorice* and cocoa powder.

*I use Johan Bulow liquorice powder, due to its strength in flavour I mix it with cocoa powder, if you choose to use a different make you might not need to mix it up.

Also if you're not keen on liquorice, try to dust them with cocoa powder on its own, I'm sure that would be nice to :-)

Enjoy

Apricot & Almond Truffles, with a twist of liquorice

Apricot & Almond Truffles

(makes approx 40 truffles)

200g Dark Chocolate grated (I used 90% cocoa solids)

150g Caster Sugar

250ml Double Cream

2 Tablespoons of Apricot conserve

100g Ground Almonds

2 Tablespoons Alcohol (I used sweet white wine but Amaretti would be good)

Cocoa or liquorice powder to dust

Heat Cream and sugar until almost boiling, take off the heat and stir in the chocolate, conserve, ground almonds and alcohol if using

Transfer into a container and refridgerate until cold and firm

When cold, cut mixture into smallish pieces using a knife dusted in cocoa powder or roll them to small bite size balls and transfer into another container of sieved cocoa or a mixture of cocoa powder and raw liquorice powder

Keep refrigerated

Enjoy !