Best Easy Tartufo Recipes
TARTUFO
Steps:
- Caramel sauce:
- In a heavy saucepan over medium-high heat, combine the sugar with 1/4 cup of water.
- Bring to a simmer and cook until the mixture turns a deep golden brown. Remove from the heat and carefully whisk in the heavy cream, vanilla extract and salt. Set aside to cool to room temperature.
- Tartufo:
- Combine the cookie crumbs and chocolate chunks in a large resealable bag.
- Using a large round ice cream scoop, scoop out a ball of ice cream and leave it in the scoop. Poke a hole in the center of the scoop with a handle of a wooden spoon and put a cherry into the hole. Cover the hole with a bit of ice cream and put the scoop of ice cream into the bag of cookies and chocolate pieces. Shake around pressing gently to completely coat the ice cream. Put the scoop on a tray and freeze for 30 minutes. Repeat the process with remaining ingredients.
- Before serving, divide the caramel sauce among 4 plates. Remove the Tartufos from the freezer and slice them in half. Arrange 2 halves on each plate and garnish with mint sprigs.
ITALIAN TARTUFO
"Tartufo" is Italian for truffle. The original "truffles" were created just after the French revolution by French chefs and were chocolate confections made to resemble like their prized fungi cousin in the Perigord region of France. These sweet confections were given at Christmas time as gifts. Sometime around the Victorian era is when the frozen truffle came about when the idea of molding ice creams into various shape like flowers, fruit, and other foods became popular. It has been only during recent times that ice cream "truffles" or "tartufos" have made a renaissance, of sorts. Typically, in Italy, a tartufo is a vanilla ice cream ball that has a cherry and some nuts in the center. The ball is then dipped in chocolate and can be covered with nuts or chocolate shavings. (Cook time is Chilling time)
Provided by Ashbabe
Categories Frozen Desserts
Time 5h30m
Yield 10 Tartufo's, 10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Soak cherries in rum.
- Sift sugar; cocoa, and instant coffee together and place in a heavy sauce pan.
- Add the water and mix well.
- Bring to a boil and cook until everything is well mixed.
- While syrup is cooking, whip the egg yolks until light and fluffy.
- Reduce the speed of the beaters to the lowest level and add the hot syrup in a continuous fine stream.
- Continue beating until the mixture is thick and forms a ribbon pattern when the beater is pulled away.
- Chill well. (about an hour).
- Whip the cream with the 2 tablespoons of rum until stiff.
- Fold into the chocolate mixture.
- Fold in the chopped chocolate.
- Arrange foil lined paper cups in a muffin pan.
- Fill each cup 1/3 of the way full.
- Place a cherry in each cup then fill the rest of the way.
- Freeze at least 4 hours (preferably overnight).
- Before serving pipe whipping cream on top if desired.
- It will keep in the freezer for about a month wrapped tightly in aluminum foil.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 259.8, Fat 15.6, SaturatedFat 8.9, Cholesterol 99, Sodium 14.8, Carbohydrate 28.9, Fiber 2.7, Sugar 22, Protein 3.7
TARTUFFO
Steps:
- With a small ice cream scoop, make walnut-sized balls of the chocolate ice cream. Shove a hazelnut into the center of each ball. Freeze. With a larger ice cream scoop, dig out flat globs of vanilla ice cream and pack it around the chocolate ice cream ball, covering completely. Freeze for 30 minutes. Roll in chocolate shavings and keep frozen.
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