Christmas pudding truffles, or, turning catastrophe into deliciousness

[st_aurafina]

1. Allow an environmentally sound light bulb to explode in your pantry, showering everything with powdered glass and presumably elemental mercury omg.

2. Clean everything and every surface in the pantry. Linger lovingly over the liquor shelf.

3. Find an ancient and out of date christmas pudding! Unwrap it, tie shiny ribbon in hair, and get girlfriend to examine pudding for mould.

4. Crumble pudding in bowl. Sprinkle with Cointreau. Drink rest of Cointreau (Aussies, tastes like Durotuss, y/y?) because useless to put that bottle back now. It was nearly empty.

5. Melt 100 g of chocolate. I'm melting dark chocolate, because I am a super-sophisticated drinker of liqueurs. Actually, I'm melting 111g because that's funnier. ACtually, I'm melting 111g plus all the bits that fell on the bench. /accurate. /hygienic.

6. Stir chocolate into pudding crumbs. Put in fridge. Ogle bottle of Cointreau. Decide chocolate is tastier than cough syrup.

7. Shape mixture into balls and put in really neat rows on a tray lined with baking paper.

8. Return to fridge. Put water back on to boil. Assemble double boiler arrangement again. Load with dark chocolate.

9. Rummage in cuttlery drawer for truffle baller, giggling. Truffle baller, guys. Truffle baller.

10. Dip your balls in the melted chocolate. Ponder the amazing nature of that last sentence.

11. Put the pudding balls back in the fridge to harden.

12. Tomorrow, which is Christmas Day for us, eat tiny reconstituted chocolate covered puddings.

(If you are feeling fancy, you can pipe white chocolate on the top to simulate brandy sauce, but I'm not that fancy. By which I mean I cannot melt white chocolate without it seizing.)

Comments

[lurkingcat]

I hope they're as much fun to eat as they were to make :)

(Truffle baller!)

[st_aurafina]

They are! (truffle baller!)

[lilmoka]

10. Dip your balls in the melted chocolate.
^ This made me laugh out loud.

It looks like an amazing recipe, I'm totally adding it to my 'must try' list :D

[st_aurafina]

Hee! I wonder what it would feel like?

It is an amazing recipe, and a good way to use up cake.

[siliconshaman]

Hot! [well, it is melted chocolate].

[amalnahurriyeh]

Everything about this is amazing. :)

[st_aurafina]

The exploding light bulb was not so amazing, but good things came of it, anyway.

[weaverbird]

Sounds scrumptious. Very clever rescue. *g*

)Truffle baller! Dip your balls in the melted chocolate! *gigglefit*)

[st_aurafina]

Dip your balls! Dip them slowly and lovingly.

It's never not funny, to be honest.

[amadi]

I'm reminded of a sketch comedy show from years ago with a character whose catch phrase was "I wanna dip my balls in it."

He carried around ping pong balls...

[d_generate_girl]

NOM. I am deeply envious of people who can bake, and those sound amazing.

[st_aurafina]

It's not even baking, really! It's just melting chocolate. Nothing to be jealous of, seriously. But yes, very tasty.

[senmut]

You know I love you, right? This post is an example of why. ;-)

[st_aurafina]

I love you too, hon. *hugs*

[rydra_wong]

... please cross-post this to omnomnom. And/or permission for me to metaquotes? It must be shared.

[st_aurafina]

Okay, I'll post it to omnomnom in a minute, and sure, metaquote away.

[rydra_wong]

Metaquoted!

[montuos]

Thankyouthankyouthankyou for posting, because ZOMGgiggles!

[asenathwaite]

TRUFFLE BALLER

These sound amazingly delicious.

[st_aurafina]

They are amazing delicious, I promise.

[tree]

this is basically slash cooking fic, you realise. you've just created a new genre.

tie shiny ribbon in hair

i'm glad i'm not the only one who does that!

happy tiny reconstituted chocolate covered puddings day to you and lilacsigil. :)

[st_aurafina]

i'm glad i'm not the only one who does that!

Oh, you're not the only one. First rule of any packaging: can it go on my head.

You have a lovely Christmas, too! *hugs*

[thegorgon]

I'm not sure I've ever tried straight cointreau. Cointreau is for margaritas, yo.

Or, apparently, delicious balls dipped in chocolate. Those sound awesome.

[st_aurafina]

Margaritas! I think, maybe, it's not supposed to be consumed straight? It's pretty nasty, all up.

Chocolate dipped balls are very tasty! I highly recommend them.

[medicalmouse]

These sound very yummy! And possibly a bit like a literal definition of 'food porn', but still, yummy.

(Also, I don't know if this works for white chocolate the same as it does for regular chocolate, but if it's seizing because a bit of water's getting in, you can try adding more liquid to unseize it again. I think the ratio's 1 tablespoon per 2 ounces of chocolate or so.)

[azurelunatic]

Ooo, good to know!

[st_aurafina]

My tip is to add a smidge of butter, but I think the problem is that white chocolate is basically a temperamental diva of a substance, and seizes if the barometric pressures is too low or if mercury is in retrograde.

But yeah, water will mess that shit up really bad. I'm super careful with the water.

[zogblaster]

I find it does well in the microwave, if you're careful and use short bursts. [/random stranger from metaquotes]

[st_aurafina]

I think I'll try that next time, to be honest. Double boiler just isn't working for me, no matter what the cookbooks say.

BALL DIPPING.

[azurelunatic]

TRUFFLE BALLER.

(here via metaquotes.)

Re: BALL DIPPING.

[st_aurafina]

IT IS THE BEST TOOL!

[17catherines]

Glorious. Completely with you on the Durotuss, though my husband begs to differ.

(friends you, because anyone who writes about food like this is bound to be good value)

[st_aurafina]

Yay! The really funny thing is that Durotuss is supposedly apricot flavoured.