how to make magic chocolate truffles

mydarling · 01-19-09, 03:17

i'm a big fan of stealthy ways to store the fruits of my mycological labor. keeping massive amounts of mushrooms around the house isn't my style, so i'm trying to come up with more things to do with them!

well, here's a recipe for magic chocolate-kaluha-mint truffles for anyone wanting to try something fun with their dried mushrooms. truffles are just about the easiest chocolate treat you can make, especially by this method (no need for a double boiler here).

you can change the flavorings any way you like - substitute mint or kaluha with any sort of extracts, booze, nuts, etc you prefer. i just happen to like kaluha and mint.

materials:
glass or ceramic mixing bowl
rubber/silicone spatula
whisk
small pot
melon baller
ice cream scoop
sheet pans
wax paper

ingredients:
65g dry mushrooms, ground into a fine powder
20 oz + 4 oz (24 total) semi-sweet chocolate
6 tbsp unsalted butter
1 cup heavy cream
2 tbsp light corn syrup
1/2 c kaluha
1/4 tsp mint extract
lots of rainbow sprinkles (or cocoa powder, coconut flakes, finely chopped nuts, whatever. lys chose rainbow sprinkles because, well, don't YOU associate rainbow sprinkles with magic?

)
12 oz bittersweet chocolate

yield:
65 truffles (hence the use of 65g of mushrooms, so 1 truffle = 1 gram. increase the proportion of mushrooms as you desire.)

method:
grind up your mushrooms into a fine powder. i bought a $20 coffee grinder today for just this purpose, and it works very well indeed.

put 20 oz semi-sweet chocolate in your glass mixing bowl with 6 tablespoons of unsalted butter. nuke this in the microwave for three 30-second intervals, stirring with spatula between each interval. this will soften up the chocolate a bit.

put 1 cup heavy cream and 2 tbsp light corn syrup in the small pot and bring to a simmer over medium heat.

pour the simmered cream and corn syrup into the bowl of partially softened chocolate. let it sit like this for 2-5 minutes. the heat of the cream will start to melt the chocolate.

use the spatula to stir the chocolate and cream in concentric circles, starting from center. keep stirring the chocolate in this fashion until all of the chocolate is melted, there are no lumps, and mixture is smooth and creamy! this will take about 5 minutes.

now, add the 1/2 c kaluha and 1/4 tsp mint extract. stir some more.

at this point, you may add your pulverized mushroom powder. dump it on top and stir stir stir til it mixes all in. switch to a whisk for this, it starts out lumpy and is hard to combine with a spatula.

cover the mixture with foil and place in fridge for at least an hour. if mixture is not very firm by this time, you can put it in the freezer for a few minutes. you want it to be firm enough that you can scoop balls out with a melon baller without it being gooey and getting everywhere!

once sufficiently hardened, scoop out balls of chocolate from the bowl with the melon baller. line the balls up on waxed paper atop a sheet pan. try as best you can to get 65 truffle balls out of the bowl, such that you will have 1 gram in each truffle.

place your trays back in the freezer for about 5 mins to harden the balls up. then take them out and roll each truffle ball between your palms to form little spheres from each scoop. this is MUCH easier to do if the truffles are very very cold. when finished rolling into balls, stick back into the freezer.

while the truffles are back in the freezer chilling, melt the chocolate you will use for the chocolate shell. place 12 oz bittersweet chocolate and the last 4 oz of semi-sweet chocolate in a small bowl.

microwave this chocolate at 30 second intervals, stirring very thoroughly between each interval, until the chocolate is JUST melted. be careful here - if the temp goes about 94 F, the shell will not have that nice "SNAP" to it when you bite into the truffle. so just heat the chocolate enough to melt it. about 2 mins tops is enough. even if the chocolate doesn't look melted, if you stir it a lot, it will melt up quickly. basically you want the temp to be just below body temp (90-92 F).

pour out your jars of sprinkles into another small bowl. (took me 5 jars of rainbow nonpareils to coat 65 truffles.)

dip your ice cream scoop into the melted chocolate to coat it.

place a truffle ball into the scoop.

use your fingers to roll the truffle ball around in the melted chocolate to coat it all over.

pick up the coated truffled ball and drop it into the bowl of sprinkles. roll it all around in there to get it covered in sprinkles.

once covered, place onto a new sheet of waxed paper to harden up. this doesn't take long at all, since the core is very very cold from the freezer.

put the sheet pans back in the freezer to harden up again. once completely frozen, you can put all the truffles in a container and store in the freezer for who knows how long (i'm guess around forever). you can keep them in the fridge if you plan to eat them in the coming weeks.

enjoy!

Irishlion · 01-19-09, 03:49

Wow nice darling, those look tasty, I wonder how much of a dose is in each one?

Beastmaster · 01-19-09, 04:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by mydarling

ingredients:
65g dry mushrooms, ground into a fine powder
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yield:
65 truffles (hence the use of 65g of mushrooms, so 1 truffle = 1 gram. increase the proportion of mushrooms as you desire.)
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try as best you can to get 65 truffle balls out of the bowl, such that you will have 1 gram in each truffle.

vinz · 01-19-09, 04:07

65g shrooms - 65 pcs of truffles!
1g each..
damn! this is probably one of the best recipes i have seen!

looks absolutely delicious!

mrpanda · 01-19-09, 04:23

Awesome recipe thanks for sharing.
How do you stop yourself eating all of them in one go?

mydarling · 01-19-09, 10:26

thanks guys! i hope someone tries it and lets us know how they like it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrpanda

Awesome recipe thanks for sharing.
How do you stop yourself eating all of them in one go?

i thought the same thing... so i actually made this recipe twice, once without the mushrooms..that way i can eat 3-4 magic ones and some normal ones too if i feel like it

they're coated in cocoa powder instead of sprinkles so i can CLEARLY tell the difference, even if i'm tripping.

Cultosaurus · 01-19-09, 11:08

Very nice. Now that's a way to get my wife to enjoy shrooms too. Now it won't just be my hobby, but she can help with the dessert. Thanks

Peace
Cult

Ras Asad · 01-19-09, 12:53

you rock MD!!

awesome!! Thanks soo much!!

Im surely going to try this.

buteo · 01-19-09, 13:19

great job md....this is a good way to make it easier to consume them nasty things!

Mandrake · 01-19-09, 14:12

Nice!

A TEK I will most definately use!

Hopefully some nosey guest wont raid the freezer in hopes of some tasty desert!!!

Imagine ones In Laws devouring a boxfull of those!

"My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get""

Mandrake

Mahi · 01-19-09, 15:15

...you are amazing

mydarling · 01-19-09, 22:20

hyoly shit these are strong. i only ate 1. lol

Dr.Hallucination. · 01-19-09, 22:40

Those look some tasty.The sprinkles,Its all about the sprinkles.

Shroomette · 01-19-09, 22:45

Those do look very delicious Md. Also, nice gifts for friends in the same interest. Strong eh?

Soliver · 01-20-09, 11:31

That is awesome... I made some half-assed chocs once, but I used too much chocolate,
thinking to mask the taste... the resulting giant WAD of chocolate was so disgusting to
ingest, I had to break it into swallowable chunks to avoid chewing...

Sure wish I had this recipe back then!

I just extract all of mine into everclear now - while unsuspecting houseguests may accidentally munch
a handful of truffles, no one is dumb enough to drink a random amber liquid stored in glass vials

I'd suggest you hide / label / whatever you have to do with those things, lest an unsuspecting square
nibbles 3-4 and goes to la la land inadvertently

thanks for the post!

soliver

golly · 01-20-09, 11:39

Amazing chocolates MD...Ghirardelli is the bomb ,with it's high Cacao content..

Archive material..!

stickyscissors · 01-20-09, 12:34

This is such an amazing recipe. I'm definitely going to try this.

Although I'm going to substitute candy sprinkles for the dots.

I can't wait!

suckerfree · 01-20-09, 12:38

wow those look great!!! def. going to have to try those!

Hippie3 · 01-20-09, 13:49

great write-up

Irishlion · 01-20-09, 13:51

Archive material, excellent recipe for sure

bosshogg · 01-20-09, 15:30

yum yum yum very nice tek can't wait to try it .

mydarling · 01-20-09, 22:20

Quote:

Originally Posted by Soliver

That is awesome... I made some half-assed chocs once, but I used too much chocolate,
thinking to mask the taste... the resulting giant WAD of chocolate was so disgusting to
ingest, I had to break it into swallowable chunks to avoid chewing...

yeah, chocolate is pretty temperamental stuff. if you get it too hot, it will seize up and get all crumbly/crunchy/crystalized/nasty.

that's the purpose of the corn syrup in this recipe. the corn syrup is almost entirely made of the sugar glucose, while the sugar in the chocolate is sucrose - a covalently bonded disaccharide composed of of glucose and fructose. the sucrose will form crystals and result in crystaly/gross chocolate when it cools down, if you heat it improperly.

but the glucose from corn syrup, being a different type of sugar than the sugar in the chocolate, mixes up with the sucrose from the chocolate and prevents the sucrose from being able to form a tight lattice structure (crystals). so long story short, the corn syrup stabilizes the chocolate so that it stays creamy, and is much less likely to crystallize/harden and mess up your treats. this is also very important for making fudge.

lol sorry for the biochemistry, but food science is cool !!!!

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on a side note, i don't know if an alkaloid in the chocolate works synergistically with the psilocybin/psilocin or what, but i swear that 1g truffle i ate last night was way stronger than 1g dry eaten straight up. WOOT! good times

bmad · 01-28-09, 23:47

you have been watchin alton brown havent you

deb is excited to give this one a try Thanks for the write up

Quote:

Originally Posted by mydarling

yeah, chocolate is pretty temperamental stuff. if you get it too hot, it will seize up and get all crumbly/crunchy/crystalized/nasty.

that's the purpose of the corn syrup in this recipe. the corn syrup is almost entirely made of the sugar glucose, while the sugar in the chocolate is sucrose - a covalently bonded disaccharide composed of of glucose and fructose. the sucrose will form crystals and result in crystaly/gross chocolate when it cools down, if you heat it improperly.

but the glucose from corn syrup, being a different type of sugar than the sugar in the chocolate, mixes up with the sucrose from the chocolate and prevents the sucrose from being able to form a tight lattice structure (crystals). so long story short, the corn syrup stabilizes the chocolate so that it stays creamy, and is much less likely to crystallize/harden and mess up your treats. this is also very important for making fudge.

lol sorry for the biochemistry, but food science is cool !!!!

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on a side note, i don't know if an alkaloid in the chocolate works synergistically with the psilocybin/psilocin or what, but i swear that 1g truffle i ate last night was way stronger than 1g dry eaten straight up. WOOT! good times

mydarling · 01-29-09, 00:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by bmad

you have been watchin alton brown havent you

i'm a molecular biologist... took a lot of biochem in university

but yes i love alton brown, whenever he talks about food science it tickles my heart

DrAstronaut · 01-29-09, 00:11

The sprinkles are the perfect finish! C'est gastronomique!

lysergic · 01-29-09, 00:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by mydarling

on a side note, i don't know if an alkaloid in the chocolate works synergistically with the psilocybin/psilocin or what, but i swear that 1g truffle i ate last night was way stronger than 1g dry eaten straight up. WOOT! good times

I ate 2 of em last weekend. It should have been 2g, but was way stronger than that. I was getting visuals and things were moving like I had eaten 3-3.5g and there was no nausea.

I would say cacao + mushrooms =

These things are awesome.

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrAstronaut

The sprinkles are the perfect finish! C'est gastronomique!

Yeah, those were my idea

Can't get much more magical than that

datsun · 02-05-09, 04:08

I really really enjoyed this thread, especially with the many pictures!

mydarling · 03-22-09, 22:31

so, i made a couple modifications to this truffle recipe that make things a little easier to make an exact amount of truffles! it's a little hard to eyeball 65 truffles from a bowl of truffle mix, so here we're doing 80 truffles and using the technique shown below to make things easier.

the truffles still have 1g each as before, but are smaller in size. each batch using this method will make 80 truffles with a 1g dose in each truffle. i also used a variation on the recipe above, using more dark chocolate this time, and vanilla and orange extracts (no booze). i also used blue, pink, and orange sugar crystal sprinkles instead of nonpareils for the outer coating.

here's the recipe i used this time around:

80g dry mushrooms, ground into a fine powder
12 oz semi sweet chocolate
24 oz 60% cacao (dark) chocolate, split into 8 oz and 16 oz piles
6 tbsp unsalted butter
1 cup heavy cream
2 tbsp light corn syrup
3/4 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 tsp orange extract
5 jars of sugar crystal sprinkles (or any other coating you prefer)

method:
combine 12 oz semi sweet chocolate and 8 oz of 60% cacao (dark) chocolate with the other ingredients for the truffle mix. prepare by the same method as before.

here's the special added technique. so, you've made your truffle mix and let it sit in the fridge for about an hour or hour-and-half to solidify, and you're ready to use your melon baller to scoop out the truffles.

use a knife to score the top of the truffle mix to make 8 even sections, like cutting a cake or pizza. each section will make 10 truffles. it is much easier to make 10 truffles out of a small section, than to eyeball 80 truffles from the whole bowl!

here, i've already scooped out 4 of the sections. you can see the remaining 4 sections in the bowl, scored on top.

side view of the truffle mix, with pulverized mushrooms speckled throughout

one tray of 40 scoops, from the first half of the bowl:

so, keep scooping out truffle mix with your melon baller, 10 per section, til you've got 80 truffles. i had 2 trays of 40 each.

the rest of the procedure is basically the same as in the original recipe.

as before, put these trays into the freezer to harden up the scoops. then remove the trays and roll each scoop between your palms to form each one into a nice little sphere.

put them back in the freezer again while you're melting the remaining 16 oz of 60% cacao (dark) chocolate for the outer shell. remember to not bring the temp of this chocolate above 94F degrees!

drop the hardened spheres into this melted chocolate, and then roll around in sprinkles.

place back on cookie sheet to freeze thoroughly for storage.

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i hope someone tries this recipe!!!!!!! it's so killer.

Mushrooms201 · 03-22-09, 22:41

Reading this post while stoned is a bad idea.... I have an overwhelming urge to start a batch.... Looks delicious thanks for sharing...

mydarling · 03-22-09, 22:46

lol. do it !

beardedlady · 03-22-09, 23:27

Very nice write up darling!

A friend of ours makes these, but using white chocolate I think. Something white. She said they are about 1.5 grams per truffle.

I'll have to convince BLL to follow your directions and make some, white chocolate with orange zest!

feralronin · 03-23-09, 00:05

Hell yeah. Thanks for the culinary motivation. Got some extras and might try reducing down the ratio for a test batch. Thanks

ez_goin · 03-23-09, 00:44

I don't know how I missed this but, it's on. Great recipe mydarling.

Walls Have Teeth · 03-23-09, 11:47

my mouth is watering, those look so well done!!!!

I have only made honey with my mushis but I have to try your recipe

do you think there is much, if any, loss in potency or weight making the finished product?

bosshogg · 03-23-09, 12:26

i make this recipe all the time and have never noticed any loss in potency. if anything the chocolate adds a little bit to the effects. i've taken the same amount w/out chocolate and the buzz doesn't seem as intense .
just my .02

mydarling · 03-23-09, 20:01

i concur, bosshog. there is definitely NO loss of potency - if anything, it increases (synergistic effects with the alkaloids in the chocolate, i presume).

btw thanks everyone for the comments

hope you guys try it and post some pics!

bmad · 03-23-09, 20:14

I am picking up the stuff to make these this week. that way deb can enjoy them a bit more

mydarling · 03-23-09, 20:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by beardedlady

I'll have to convince BLL to follow your directions and make some, white chocolate with orange zest!

that sounds so awesome

mydarling · 03-23-09, 20:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by bmad

I am picking up the stuff to make these this week. that way deb can enjoy them a bit more

excellent. this is about 34958304957x more enjoyable than eating nasty dried mushrooms. no mashed up gills gettin stuck in your teeth... lol. you can hardly taste the mushrooms with all the chocolate there, great for people (such as myself) who can't stand eating them otherwise.

bmad · 03-23-09, 20:24

yeah I love dried shrooms but deb prefers them fresh.. but not always an option.. she has been buggin me to do this.. just need to get off my lazy duff and do it. I will hopefully get some pics when I make them and show you what a fabulous disaster I can turn them into

lysergic · 03-23-09, 21:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by beardedlady

I'll have to convince BLL to follow your directions and make some, white chocolate with orange zest!

Since, as you probably know, white chocolate isn't real chocolate,
you most likely won't notice any potentiation effects from it.

I'm sure they'll taste good though

DrAstronaut · 03-23-09, 21:31

Has anyone considered substituting sprinkles for pop-rocks? I hear they add extra magic

eatyualive · 03-23-09, 21:36

damn how did i miss this one. holy horse poo batman those look great!

mydarling · 03-23-09, 21:42

haha eats, thanks man

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrAstronaut

Has anyone considered substituting sprinkles for pop-rocks? I hear they add extra magic

great idea!

mydarling · 03-23-09, 21:49

missing pix

Santiago · 03-23-09, 21:55

Wow. I bow to your ultimate mushroom confectionary technique. Very impressive. I like to do the quick and dirty mushroom chocolates with the "candy melts", but I might have to treat myself some time real soon.

eatyualive · 03-23-09, 21:57

the beauty of em is that if you want like 2 grams in it of dry material. you can make em big enough and not worry about the size of your ice cube tray or mold. so the chocolate to material ratio can be whatever it needs to be!

always seems to be a problem when you add too much dry material. and if you have a certain size mold that only holds a certain amount of volume. you can easily add too much dry material and have some chunky dry chocolates. this allows your flexibility and ability to increase the size to accommodate adding more dry material. i always have problems upwards of 1.5 gram dry per chocolate and up. and most of the time, you want to eat one and trip real hard. so i think this will help!

mydarling · 03-23-09, 22:01

hey eats thanks for fixing the corrupted photos in that post

you guys should definitely try making them, they're really delicious, can hardly taste the mushrooms, and each 1g truffle feels a lot stronger than 1g. 2 truffles totals 2g, but it feels more like 3-3.5g. the chocolate just does something really special

and yeah, you can change up the ratio however you like, you could probably get even 3g into each of 80 truffles of the same size, they'd just taste a lot more mushroomy! glad i've inspired you, i hope you make them! they're very easy to do, hard to mess up

Arabesque · 03-23-09, 22:05

Once I get the key ingredient for this recipe I will be making these. Thanks for enticing me to bake, as I rarely do that kind.

Santiago · 03-23-09, 22:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by mydarling

they're very easy to do, hard to mess up

And, if you think you might anyway, you can make them sans mushrooms for a practice round! <-- this is probably what I am doing.

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01-19-09, 03:17	#1 (permalink)
mydarling Modtastic Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2,034	how to make magic chocolate truffles i'm a big fan of stealthy ways to store the fruits of my mycological labor. keeping massive amounts of mushrooms around the house isn't my style, so i'm trying to come up with more things to do with them! well, here's a recipe for magic chocolate-kaluha-mint truffles for anyone wanting to try something fun with their dried mushrooms. truffles are just about the easiest chocolate treat you can make, especially by this method (no need for a double boiler here). you can change the flavorings any way you like - substitute mint or kaluha with any sort of extracts, booze, nuts, etc you prefer. i just happen to like kaluha and mint. materials: glass or ceramic mixing bowl rubber/silicone spatula whisk small pot melon baller ice cream scoop sheet pans wax paper ingredients: 65g dry mushrooms, ground into a fine powder 20 oz + 4 oz (24 total) semi-sweet chocolate 6 tbsp unsalted butter 1 cup heavy cream 2 tbsp light corn syrup 1/2 c kaluha 1/4 tsp mint extract lots of rainbow sprinkles (or cocoa powder, coconut flakes, finely chopped nuts, whatever. lys chose rainbow sprinkles because, well, don't YOU associate rainbow sprinkles with magic? ) 12 oz bittersweet chocolate yield: 65 truffles (hence the use of 65g of mushrooms, so 1 truffle = 1 gram. increase the proportion of mushrooms as you desire.) method: grind up your mushrooms into a fine powder. i bought a $20 coffee grinder today for just this purpose, and it works very well indeed. put 20 oz semi-sweet chocolate in your glass mixing bowl with 6 tablespoons of unsalted butter. nuke this in the microwave for three 30-second intervals, stirring with spatula between each interval. this will soften up the chocolate a bit. put 1 cup heavy cream and 2 tbsp light corn syrup in the small pot and bring to a simmer over medium heat. pour the simmered cream and corn syrup into the bowl of partially softened chocolate. let it sit like this for 2-5 minutes. the heat of the cream will start to melt the chocolate. use the spatula to stir the chocolate and cream in concentric circles, starting from center. keep stirring the chocolate in this fashion until all of the chocolate is melted, there are no lumps, and mixture is smooth and creamy! this will take about 5 minutes. now, add the 1/2 c kaluha and 1/4 tsp mint extract. stir some more. at this point, you may add your pulverized mushroom powder. dump it on top and stir stir stir til it mixes all in. switch to a whisk for this, it starts out lumpy and is hard to combine with a spatula. cover the mixture with foil and place in fridge for at least an hour. if mixture is not very firm by this time, you can put it in the freezer for a few minutes. you want it to be firm enough that you can scoop balls out with a melon baller without it being gooey and getting everywhere! once sufficiently hardened, scoop out balls of chocolate from the bowl with the melon baller. line the balls up on waxed paper atop a sheet pan. try as best you can to get 65 truffle balls out of the bowl, such that you will have 1 gram in each truffle. place your trays back in the freezer for about 5 mins to harden the balls up. then take them out and roll each truffle ball between your palms to form little spheres from each scoop. this is MUCH easier to do if the truffles are very very cold. when finished rolling into balls, stick back into the freezer. while the truffles are back in the freezer chilling, melt the chocolate you will use for the chocolate shell. place 12 oz bittersweet chocolate and the last 4 oz of semi-sweet chocolate in a small bowl. microwave this chocolate at 30 second intervals, stirring very thoroughly between each interval, until the chocolate is JUST melted. be careful here - if the temp goes about 94 F, the shell will not have that nice "SNAP" to it when you bite into the truffle. so just heat the chocolate enough to melt it. about 2 mins tops is enough. even if the chocolate doesn't look melted, if you stir it a lot, it will melt up quickly. basically you want the temp to be just below body temp (90-92 F). pour out your jars of sprinkles into another small bowl. (took me 5 jars of rainbow nonpareils to coat 65 truffles.) dip your ice cream scoop into the melted chocolate to coat it. place a truffle ball into the scoop. use your fingers to roll the truffle ball around in the melted chocolate to coat it all over. pick up the coated truffled ball and drop it into the bowl of sprinkles. roll it all around in there to get it covered in sprinkles. once covered, place onto a new sheet of waxed paper to harden up. this doesn't take long at all, since the core is very very cold from the freezer. put the sheet pans back in the freezer to harden up again. once completely frozen, you can put all the truffles in a container and store in the freezer for who knows how long (i'm guess around forever). you can keep them in the fridge if you plan to eat them in the coming weeks. enjoy! Attached Thumbnails __________________ tonight your ghost will ask my ghost, who put these bodies between us?

01-19-09, 03:49	#2 (permalink)
Irishlion KEY MASTER Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 3,343	Wow nice darling, those look tasty, I wonder how much of a dose is in each one? __________________ a man without honor isn't a man at all but, a soul trapped in a flesh body that is lost in a void of its own making

01-19-09, 04:07	#4 (permalink)
vinz magician Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,195	65g shrooms - 65 pcs of truffles! 1g each.. damn! this is probably one of the best recipes i have seen! looks absolutely delicious! __________________ i know magic

01-19-09, 04:23	#5 (permalink)
mrpanda It is big and I am clever Join Date: Jan 1970 Posts: 714	Awesome recipe thanks for sharing. How do you stop yourself eating all of them in one go? __________________ Weeeeeeeee. That is all.

01-19-09, 11:08	#7 (permalink)
Cultosaurus Aspiring Psychonaut Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 82	Very Nice Very nice. Now that's a way to get my wife to enjoy shrooms too. Now it won't just be my hobby, but she can help with the dessert. Thanks Peace Cult

01-19-09, 12:53	#8 (permalink)
Ras Asad omnigalactic Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 3,651	you rock MD!! awesome!! Thanks soo much!! Im surely going to try this. __________________ "You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes." ~ Alan Watts

01-19-09, 13:19	#9 (permalink)
buteo Imbicilzzzz Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 1,355	great job md....this is a good way to make it easier to consume them nasty things! __________________ Im only what i think i am

01-19-09, 14:12	#10 (permalink)
Mandrake Mycophiliac Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 67	Nice! A TEK I will most definately use! Hopefully some nosey guest wont raid the freezer in hopes of some tasty desert!!! Imagine ones In Laws devouring a boxfull of those! "My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get"" Mandrake

01-19-09, 15:15	#11 (permalink)
Mahi Barefoot Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 92	...you are amazing

01-19-09, 22:20	#12 (permalink)
mydarling Modtastic Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2,034	hyoly shit these are strong. i only ate 1. lol __________________ tonight your ghost will ask my ghost, who put these bodies between us?

01-19-09, 22:40	#13 (permalink)
Dr.Hallucination. Chasing the Rabbit. Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 1,820	Sprinkles Those look some tasty.The sprinkles,Its all about the sprinkles. __________________ The man who walk's through the door on the wall,Will never be quite the same,As the man who went out.

01-19-09, 22:45	#14 (permalink)
Shroomette Fairy Princess Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 2,937	Those do look very delicious Md. Also, nice gifts for friends in the same interest. Strong eh? __________________ "If I'm not seen in this world.I'm lost in my own lil world"!!!

01-20-09, 11:31	#15 (permalink)
Soliver Deviant Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 1,784	That is awesome... I made some half-assed chocs once, but I used too much chocolate, thinking to mask the taste... the resulting giant WAD of chocolate was so disgusting to ingest, I had to break it into swallowable chunks to avoid chewing... Sure wish I had this recipe back then! I just extract all of mine into everclear now - while unsuspecting houseguests may accidentally munch a handful of truffles, no one is dumb enough to drink a random amber liquid stored in glass vials I'd suggest you hide / label / whatever you have to do with those things, lest an unsuspecting square nibbles 3-4 and goes to la la land inadvertently thanks for the post! soliver

01-20-09, 11:39	#16 (permalink)
golly modapotato Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,198	Amazing chocolates MD...Ghirardelli is the bomb ,with it's high Cacao content.. Archive material..!

01-20-09, 13:49	#19 (permalink)
Hippie3 DUNG DEALER Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 43,266	great write-up __________________ visit dial-a-hippie .

01-20-09, 12:34	#17 (permalink)
stickyscissors Humble Student Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 317	This is such an amazing recipe. I'm definitely going to try this. Although I'm going to substitute candy sprinkles for the dots. I can't wait! __________________ Don't let the walls cave in on you. We can't live on, live on without you. You get what you give this much is true.

01-20-09, 12:38	#18 (permalink)
suckerfree KEY MASTER Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,833	wow those look great!!! def. going to have to try those! __________________

01-20-09, 13:51	#20 (permalink)
Irishlion KEY MASTER Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 3,343	Archive material, excellent recipe for sure __________________ a man without honor isn't a man at all but, a soul trapped in a flesh body that is lost in a void of its own making

01-20-09, 15:30	#21 (permalink)
bosshogg joe schmoe super tripper Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 616	yum yum yum very nice tek can't wait to try it .

01-29-09, 00:11	#25 (permalink)
DrAstronaut Soxhleteer Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 268	The sprinkles are the perfect finish! C'est gastronomique! __________________ Anyone have any visine? I got something in my 3rd eye...

02-05-09, 04:08	#27 (permalink)
datsun Mycophiliac Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 201	I really really enjoyed this thread, especially with the many pictures!

03-22-09, 22:31	#28 (permalink)
mydarling Modtastic Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2,034	so, i made a couple modifications to this truffle recipe that make things a little easier to make an exact amount of truffles! it's a little hard to eyeball 65 truffles from a bowl of truffle mix, so here we're doing 80 truffles and using the technique shown below to make things easier. the truffles still have 1g each as before, but are smaller in size. each batch using this method will make 80 truffles with a 1g dose in each truffle. i also used a variation on the recipe above, using more dark chocolate this time, and vanilla and orange extracts (no booze). i also used blue, pink, and orange sugar crystal sprinkles instead of nonpareils for the outer coating. here's the recipe i used this time around: 80g dry mushrooms, ground into a fine powder 12 oz semi sweet chocolate 24 oz 60% cacao (dark) chocolate, split into 8 oz and 16 oz piles 6 tbsp unsalted butter 1 cup heavy cream 2 tbsp light corn syrup 3/4 tsp vanilla extract 3/4 tsp orange extract 5 jars of sugar crystal sprinkles (or any other coating you prefer) method: combine 12 oz semi sweet chocolate and 8 oz of 60% cacao (dark) chocolate with the other ingredients for the truffle mix. prepare by the same method as before. here's the special added technique. so, you've made your truffle mix and let it sit in the fridge for about an hour or hour-and-half to solidify, and you're ready to use your melon baller to scoop out the truffles. use a knife to score the top of the truffle mix to make 8 even sections, like cutting a cake or pizza. each section will make 10 truffles. it is much easier to make 10 truffles out of a small section, than to eyeball 80 truffles from the whole bowl! here, i've already scooped out 4 of the sections. you can see the remaining 4 sections in the bowl, scored on top. side view of the truffle mix, with pulverized mushrooms speckled throughout one tray of 40 scoops, from the first half of the bowl: so, keep scooping out truffle mix with your melon baller, 10 per section, til you've got 80 truffles. i had 2 trays of 40 each. the rest of the procedure is basically the same as in the original recipe. as before, put these trays into the freezer to harden up the scoops. then remove the trays and roll each scoop between your palms to form each one into a nice little sphere. put them back in the freezer again while you're melting the remaining 16 oz of 60% cacao (dark) chocolate for the outer shell. remember to not bring the temp of this chocolate above 94F degrees! drop the hardened spheres into this melted chocolate, and then roll around in sprinkles. place back on cookie sheet to freeze thoroughly for storage. ------------- i hope someone tries this recipe!!!!!!! it's so killer. Attached Thumbnails __________________ tonight your ghost will ask my ghost, who put these bodies between us? Last edited by eatyualive; 03-23-09 at 21:53. Reason: format

03-22-09, 22:41	#29 (permalink)
Mushrooms201 Mycotopiate Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 541	Warning Reading this post while stoned is a bad idea.... I have an overwhelming urge to start a batch.... Looks delicious thanks for sharing...

03-22-09, 22:46	#30 (permalink)
mydarling Modtastic Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2,034	lol. do it ! __________________ tonight your ghost will ask my ghost, who put these bodies between us?

03-22-09, 23:27	#31 (permalink)
beardedlady Documented Deemster Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 705	Very nice write up darling! A friend of ours makes these, but using white chocolate I think. Something white. She said they are about 1.5 grams per truffle. I'll have to convince BLL to follow your directions and make some, white chocolate with orange zest!

03-23-09, 00:05	#32 (permalink)
feralronin Professional Amateur Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,325	Hell yeah. Thanks for the culinary motivation. Got some extras and might try reducing down the ratio for a test batch. Thanks __________________ "I was actually saving it for my wedding day." -Mystic Truth > Authority

03-23-09, 00:44	#33 (permalink)
ez_goin Eager Student Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 435	I don't know how I missed this but, it's on. Great recipe mydarling.

03-23-09, 11:47	#34 (permalink)
Walls Have Teeth VIP Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 184	my mouth is watering, those look so well done!!!! I have only made honey with my mushis but I have to try your recipe do you think there is much, if any, loss in potency or weight making the finished product? __________________ There is so much talk about the system... and so little understanding.

03-23-09, 12:26	#35 (permalink)
bosshogg joe schmoe super tripper Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 616	i make this recipe all the time and have never noticed any loss in potency. if anything the chocolate adds a little bit to the effects. i've taken the same amount w/out chocolate and the buzz doesn't seem as intense . just my .02 __________________ 'joe schmoe super tripper might think he can eat an 8 of those like he could any other mushy and off to the loony bin,or in the corner crying for their mommy-IL

03-23-09, 20:01	#36 (permalink)
mydarling Modtastic Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2,034	i concur, bosshog. there is definitely NO loss of potency - if anything, it increases (synergistic effects with the alkaloids in the chocolate, i presume). btw thanks everyone for the comments hope you guys try it and post some pics! __________________ tonight your ghost will ask my ghost, who put these bodies between us?

03-23-09, 20:14	#37 (permalink)
bmad Mycophiliac Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 346	I am picking up the stuff to make these this week. that way deb can enjoy them a bit more __________________ emotionally crippled narcissist

03-23-09, 20:24	#40 (permalink)
bmad Mycophiliac Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 346	yeah I love dried shrooms but deb prefers them fresh.. but not always an option.. she has been buggin me to do this.. just need to get off my lazy duff and do it. I will hopefully get some pics when I make them and show you what a fabulous disaster I can turn them into __________________ emotionally crippled narcissist

03-23-09, 21:31	#42 (permalink)
DrAstronaut Soxhleteer Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 268	Has anyone considered substituting sprinkles for pop-rocks? I hear they add extra magic __________________ Anyone have any visine? I got something in my 3rd eye...

03-23-09, 21:36	#43 (permalink)
eatyualive ExoCannibalist Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 5,064	damn how did i miss this one. holy horse poo batman those look great! __________________ Click for Eat's Reference

03-23-09, 21:49	#45 (permalink)
mydarling Modtastic Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 2,034	missing pix Attached Thumbnails __________________ tonight your ghost will ask my ghost, who put these bodies between us?