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Five-Ingredient Salted Marzipan Truffles

Here's how you make Five-Ingredient Salted Marzipan Truffles
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  • Servings: 25
  • Prep: 25m
  • Cook: 16m
  • The following recipe serves 25 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 1 can (11 ounce) marzipan
  • 8 ounces dark chocolate (chopped)
  • 1/2 teaspoon coconut oil
  • 1 teaspoon corn syrup
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, flaked (large-flake finishing salt ex. Trader Joe’s Cypriot Pyramid Salt)
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Line a baking sheet with wax paper.

  • Step 2: Scoop marzipan by the 1/2 tablespoon (1 1/2 teaspoons), roll into balls, and set on prepared pan.

  • Step 3: Place chopped dark chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl.

  • Step 4: Microwave for 1 minute. Stir with a fork.

  • Step 5: Add coconut oil. Continue to microwave in 30 second increments, stirring in between, until smooth.

  • Step 6: Stir in corn syrup.

  • Step 7: To dip, drop one ball of marzipan into the melted chocolate.

  • Step 8: Use a fork to coat marzipan in chocolate.

  • Step 9: Drain briefly by scraping the tines of the fork on the edge of the bowl.

  • Step 10: Use the fork to gently lay the truffle on the prepared pan.

  • Step 11: Immediately top with a pinch of finishing salt.

  • Step 12: Continue this process until all truffles are coated and salted.

  • Step 13: Place baking sheet in the freezer for 15 minutes, until chocolate has solidified. Serve.

  • Step 14: Truffles will keep in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a week.

  • Step 15: Re-salt as necessary by lightly moistening the tops with water and sprinkling with salt.

  • Step 16: Allow to dry before serving


Tips & Variations

Don't forget the following tips and variations.
  • Special Equipment:
  • Microwave-safe bowl (or double boiler)
  • Wax paper
  • Baking sheet or plate (must fit in freezer)

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