Tuesday, December 16, 2008

My evil truffles -- mwah ha ha



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I cook just enough to get by. Sure, I have a few specialty dishes for potluck dinners, but nothing spectacular.

I bake even less frequently. The one time of year I do attempt to bake, though, is right before Christmas for my co-worker's annual cookie exchange party. I love the event.

If you've never been to a cookie exchange, the idea is that you bake a preset number of cookies (for this party it was four dozen), then bring it to the party and exchange cookies with everyone else. Easy.

The first year I went to this party, I broke a cardinal rule and brought store-bought cookies that I served on Tupperware. They invited me back anyway. By the second year, I'd learned my lesson and even invested in a red holiday cookie platter specially for the event.

I experimented with a lot of cookie recipes over the years, but I'd never found a recipe that was a keeper until this year.

This year, it was the Oreo Truffle Balls. It's a What's Cooking America recipe that I stumbled on at the Chocolate and Tattoos blog. They're sinful. One of my friends has been calling them Haley's Evil Truffles.

Funny thing was, at the cookie party, a few people thought they looked store-bought. A big compliment on my chocolate-dipping skills, I guess, although I got a little sloppy with the white chocolate drizzle. That's what happens when I'm drizzling chocolate at 2 a.m. the night before, I guess.

The biggest compliment I received on them? The hostess at the cookie party asked me to make them again next year.

10 comments:

  1. Yum. I can't say anything but Yum. I can't wait to make them. I'm making them this weekend so I can bring them in to work. So excited. I might not do the white chocolate drizzle on the ones that I'm packaging for friends' gifts though.

    Great job Hales!

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  2. I'm totally making these for my office Christmas party on Friday. Thanks!

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  3. They look wonderful!
    I love those red plates.

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  4. I like the contrast of colours and patterns in your photo!

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  5. lovely, and tempting :) great pictures enough to tempt me

    and if i get some, that would make it indeed evil truffles since i just got a relapse from my bad allergies because i was tempted and munch chocolates at a party :)

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  6. Ohhhhh...yes they look amazing and on the red plate is even better!

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  7. Your truffles look oh so sinfully delicious! Man, if the other half and I weren't on a diet.... I know, bad time of year to start a diet, but gotta start sometime...

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  8. they are works of art!!

    yummy art ;)

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  9. Looks lovely and those plates are awesome!

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