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     Title: Chocolate Truffles
Categories: Chocolate, Candies
     Yield: 24 servings

          Butter for pan
    12 oz Bittersweet chocolate
          Cut into 1-inch pieces
   1/2 c  Heavy cream
     2 tb Superfine sugar
     2 tb Butter
     8 oz Toasted pecans or hazelnuts
          = coarsely chopped
   1/2 c  Unsweetened dark cocoa
          -powder

   Lightly butter an 9 x 13 inch baking pan.
   Combine chocolate, cream and sugar in a heavy medium
 saucepan. Melt together, over low heat, stirring constantly
 with a wooden spoon.
   When chocolate has melted, add butter and continue to
 stir over low heat until mixture has thickened slightly.
 This should take about 5 minutes.
   Add nuts and cook for 2 minutes longer. Spread hot
 mixture onto prepared baking pan and set in fridge for 15
 minutes or until cool but still pliable. When cool, break
 off pieces of chocolate and roll them in your hands forming
 rough 3/4-inch rounds (they should look rough and uneven to
 simulate real truffles).
    Roll them in cocoa powder and refrigerate until serving
 time. These make great gifts. Set them in little paper
 candy cups and place in a box.  Yield: about 2 dozen
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