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SMET White Chocolate Orange Blossom Truffle

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Belgian
Keyword: Truffle
Difficulty: Intermediate
Brand: SMET
Servings: 100 truffles

Equipment

  • 1 Stovetop
  • 1 pan
  • 1 Whisk
  • 2 basins
  • 1 Piping Bag
  • 1 Thermometer
  • 1 Bowl
  • 1 Spatula
  • 1 Saucepan
  • 1 Microwave
  • 1 Parchment Paper

Instructions

  • Using water, boil the granulated sugar to 122°c.
  • Remove the pan with sugar syrup from the heat and add the orange blossom water and the orange zest. 
  • Gently stir the orange blossom water and the zests into the sugar syrup. 
  • Pour the mass into two basins. 
  • Repeat this process continuously until the mass cools down to 30°C. 
  • Sieve the mixture so that the zest is extracted from the sugar syrup. 
  • Using a piping bag, squeeze the sugar syrup into the truffle shells.
  • Leave the truffle shells to stand for 12 hours, in order for a thin crystallization layer to form.

Notes

Recipe decoration

750 grams Belcolade Blanc Selection 30% White Couverture Chocolate Discs
30 grams Candied orange (fine) 
50 grams Veliche Pailleté Feuilletine Crispy Crunchy Crepe Flakes
45 grams Allez Caramel Flakes

 

Method of decoration 

– Temper the white chocolate and close the liquid truffles with a cap of white chocolate. 
– Mix the white chocolate with the ingredients according to the recipe. 
– Roll the truffles by hand through the white chocolate mass. Repeat after the first layer has hardened. (Tip: if necessary, add some melted cocoa butter to make the chocolate a little thinner). 
– Optionally, you can lightly airbrush the truffles with orange colored cocoa butter for some extra color contrast.