Pumpkin Spice Truffles

A video from KY3,

October 2011

How to make Pumpkin Spice Truffles, presented by Elle Feldman, Elle's Patisserie, 1454 Cherry St., Springfield, on KY3 Ozarks Today.

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup of heavy whipping cream
• 11 ounces of milk couverture chocolate (11 ounces finely chopped dark chocolate to temper and melt for coating)
• 3 tablespoons of canned pumpkin
• Heaping 1/4 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon plus 1/8 teaspoon of ground ginger
• 1/4 teaspoon of ground nutmeg
• Pinch of cloves
• 4 ounces of orange colored chocolate

Directions

1. Place cream in 2-quart wide saucepan over medium heat just until it comes to a simmer.  Remove from heat and immediately sprinkle chopped chocolate into cream.  Cover and allow to sit for 5 minutes; the heat should melt the chocolate.  Stir very gently until smooth.

2. Stir in pumpkin and spices. Pour mixture into a pastry bag and tie with a twist tie. Let cool to slightly warmer than room temperature.

3. Temper the 11 ounces of finely chopped milk chocolate.  Drizzle orange colored chocolate into molds, paint tempered dark chocolate into molds.

4. Pipe pumpkin ganache into the molds.

5. Cover truffle ganache with dark chocolate.

6. Let cool and pop out of molds and enjoy!