Not sure how it’s here already but Valentines Day is coming up. Have you thought about making any yummy dessert or treats for that someone special yet? I have and these Strawberry White Chocolate Truffles are an absolute winner.
Try these KitKat Truffles and my Biscoff truffles too.
Why you might ask? Well, they take only:
- 3 ingredients
- 20 minutes effort
Seriously! Of course there’s a little bit of refrigeration time too but why buy a box of chocolates when it’s so easy to make something beautiful and unique from scratch. When it’s this easy, it’s actually quicker than shopping for a gift. I’m not sure about you but I’ll take a homemade gift any day over a box of store bought choccies.
Ingredients in homemade truffles
Just like my Hazelnut Praline Chocolate Truffles and these gorgeous Toffee Pecan Chocolate Truffles, these delectable little treats use very few ingredients, in fact these Strawberry Truffles use only 3 ingredients and are even easier to make.
- White chocolate
- Freeze dried strawberries
- Cream
That is all! The trick is in the freeze dried strawberries. They’re shelf stable, available any time of the year and being that all the moisture has been removed they have an intense and concentrated strawberry flavour.
They couldn’t be more perfect for these homemade chocolate truffles. Because the strawberries totally dried, there is no moisture to mess with the texture of the ganache centre at all. You’re just adding powdered strawberries which mixes through the ganache perfectly and leaves you with an intense strawberry flavour. The perfect little sweet treat for that someone special in your life.
Quick tips!
- Don’t leave freeze dried fruit out in the air as they will soften. It won’t matter too much for this recipe but if you’re eating the strawberries separately you’ll want them nice and crispy.
- Don’t substitute fresh strawberries. Freeze dried strawberries are a must for this recipe because you don’t want to add extra moisture from the fresh strawberries to the ganache centre.
How to make chocolate truffles
This is the best part as homemade chocolate truffles are incredibly quick and easy to make.
- Heat some cream
- Pour it over your finely chopped chocolate and let it sit for a few minutes
- Stir the chocolate and cream until it turns into smooth ganache
- Then mix through any flavourings (in this case, freeze dried strawberries).
- Let the ganache set a little, then roll it into balls and coat it in melted chocolate
The only difficult part about truffles is waiting for them to set.
How to store chocolate truffles
These strawberry truffles will keep in an airtight container in the fridge for 7-10 days.
Anyway, go make your special someone a batch of these Strawberry White Chocolate Truffles and make sure to be there when they receive them so you can grab a couple for yourself.
More recipes you’ll love
- Homemade Strawberry Milk
- Hazelnut Praline Chocolate Truffles
- Toffee Pecan Chocolate Truffles
- Strawberry Chocolate Petit Fours
- Strawberry Cream Puffs
- Coconut balls
Ingredients
- 300 g white chocolate chopped finely
- ⅓ cup thickened cream 80ml
- 30 g freeze dried strawberries crushed
- 200 g white chocolate extra, for coating
For best results, always weigh ingredients where a weight is provided
Instructions
- Heat the cream over low heat, stirring, until bubbles start to appear.
- Pour the cream over the chocolate and leave it for 5 minutes before stirring to a smooth ganache.
- Add the crushed freeze dried strawberries and stir through.
- Place in the fridge for half an hour.
- Roll balls of about 2 teaspoons worth of ganache.
- Melt the extra chocolate in 30 second increments in the microwave, making sure to stir well between each.
- Use two forks to dip and roll the ganache balls in chocolate and set on a baking paper covered plate in the fridge to set.
Notes
- You shouldn't need all the extra white chocolate for coating but it helps to have more than you need when coating.
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26 Comments on “Strawberry White Chocolate Truffles”
can i use this as a filing for sandwich cookies?
Hello Ginger. Yes, I think it would work well.
Can you leave these out at room temperature once they are covered in chocolate? Also, can you use coconut cream? I’m vegan and need an alternative to regular heavy cream.
As long as it isn’t particularly warm in your home, they’ll be fine. I haven’t tried coconut cream in ganache, so I couldn’t say.
Just made them with coconut cream and put the white ganache in a chocolate mold with bittersweet chocolate. Great texture and taste. I only had 286gr white chocolate wafers, but still used 1/3c cream and 36gr freeze dried raspberries (the size of the bag). I had to warm the ganache a bit in the microwave until everything melted; didn’t work to let it sit 5m. 10-15sec, stir and warm again until even. My best chocolates ever!
So happy you loved them Meaghan. Thanks for letting us know how you customised them.
These are wonderful. I was wondering if they can be kept in the freezer?
Hello Dawn, yes you can keep these in the freezer and they’ll keep really well.
Hi, I made these and I had troubles getting the batch to set. When I would try to roll it into a ball it was sticky and would not form. What did I do wrong? I followed the recipe. I managed to get one batch to work. But my second not so much haha.
It may be that there was just a little too much cream or the mixture wasn’t absolutely cold. It needs to get very cold to roll and if it softens as you’re making them pop it in the freezer for a few minutes. The softness is perfect once encased in chocolate.
Cream…..meaning heavy whipping cream?
Hello Rachel, I use thickened cream, equivalent to heavy cream.
Thank you for the response….and so quick!
Hi there,
I love to make this, since i’m just a newby in baking, or lets say newby in cooking. Can i use fresh strawberries instead? Thank you so much in advance.
No, fresh strawberries Wong work as they’ll add too much moisture to the mix. Have fun cooking 😀
Can you place the ganache be placed in a candy mold as opposed to rolling it into balls?
I haven’t tried it but it could work. Silicone molds would be the easiest to un-mold.
I wanna make some for my family for Christmas how long will those pralines be good to eat ?
Hello Sally, these should keep for a week in the fridge no problem.
Thank you for your quick response Marie I now have recipe and am very happy cheers Gay
That’s great, thanks Gay 😀
I love freeze dried strawberry! I use it in so many thing. I’ve made something really similar to your truffle and it’s delicious.I know this one would be really good too 🙂
Freeze dried berries have such wonderful flavour too
This recipe is absolutely amazing! I received rave reviews from everybody who tried them. I did do a little switching up, though. Instead of coating them in white chocolate I rolled them in a graham cracker/white sugar mixture.
Thank you so much Bethany. I love the crumbing idea – almost like a little cheesecake
I just love the intensity of flavour in freeze dried strawberries.