Christmas Cake Truffles

In order to make these loverly treats you first need to get hold some un-used fruit cake or christmas cake, or like me you can try to make a christmas cake, burn it a bit, then drop it on the sideboard by accident and watch it fall to pieces..  then after crying for a while and wonder what you've done wrong to deserve this, you realise there is a bright side to the story :)  never let old cake go to waste heh.  

   

Ingredients for this Recipe
(This made roughly 17 Truffles.)

200g Milk Chocolate 
(I used cheapo asda stuff, but would imagine that a nicer chocolate would yield a better result)
150g Fruit Cake, Crumbled
30g Butter
15ml Cointreau (or other orange liquer)
1 Tbsp Cocoa (and some extra for dusting)

Instructions

For this you'll need a mixing bowl, scales, bowl and saucepan.


    

First of all ensure all your cake is crumbled up nicely, I did this with my hands, and not just because I like the feel of fruit cake heh, but it also allowed me to check for burnt fruit lol.

When it's all broken up nicely pour over the cointreau and mix it in well (as well as you can lol) 

add a Tablespoon of Cocoa, it's not needed, but I'm using cheap chocolate lol.

 

 

     Now melt your chocolate in a bowl resting on a saucepan of water, ensuring the water isn't touching the bowl.  when the chocolate is nice and melty, add in the butter and keep stirring.
 
When the butter has all melted it will start going forming a stiff paste, this is fine, we want this :)  take it off the heat now, trying not to burn yourself, which I only say because I burnt myself several times lol.
 
Add all the chocolate into the cakemix (don't lick the metal spoon.. it's hot lol.. yes, burnt again..)

give it a good stirring until it's all looking nice and mixed.
 
now grab little handfulls of it and form them into little balls,

You can dust them in cocoa, although it doesn't really dust as you can see... so kinda just coats them lol

place them on a baking sheet and put them in the fridge to go hard.

No idea how long these will last, but if your cake had as much booze in it as mine did, they should last a month in an airtight container..