Right, I’m not going to lie to you, these Cherry Brandy Truffles are a bit fiddly to make but they’re worth it. I personally love cherry brandy chocolates and always stockpile them at Christmas time but never thought to make my own. I also like chocolate truffles so I thought ‘why not merge the two’? Enter Indigo Herbs, I used their products to make my Mocha Walnut Slice a while back and as I liked the products so much (especially making my own chocolate) I decided to be cheeky and ask if I could use their products again AND bag a bunch of goodies for you my lovely reader. For your chance to win the Indigo Herbs ingredients required to make these Cherry Brandy Truffles, scroll down to the bottom of this post and follow the instructions on how to enter, the more actions you complete, the more chances you get to win.
Lets get back to the truffles shall we? Like I say these are a wee bit fiddly to make but not what I’d call ‘masterclass’ and due to the fact that you need to make these truffles in stages they take approximately 2 hrs from start to finish. Given the effort, and how gorgeous these delicious monster truffles are to look at, I’m considering making more and boxing them up as gifts this Christmas. This recipe makes 15 Cherry Brandy Truffles and after a slightly dodgy bit of maths I worked out that it would cost £5-6 depending on the cost of the additional ingredients such as maple syrup and brandy.
Just to point out that I used a silicone cake-pop mould to achieve the perfect rounded truffle, I have added a link below and an clickable image below to the mould that I have at home, I’ve gotten heaps of use out of it now for cake pops, chocolates and doughnut balls so it was a good investment. If you did click on the link and make a purchase it will cost no extra to you but amazon would give me a few pennies for the link.
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Finest Cherry Brandy Truffles Recipe

A combination of cherry brandy liqueur chocolates and chocolate truffles, perfect made as a gift over the festive period or indulge yourself.
- 150 g coconut flour
- 50 g raisins
- 75 g cacao butter melted
- 3 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 4 tsp cocao powder cocoa powder can be used as an alternative
- 3 tsp cherry syrup/flavouring
- 15 frozen or tinned cherries
- 2 tbsp brandy
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- 2 tbsp cherry conserve
- 300 g Organic Chocolate Starter Kit or you can use dairy free chocolate
- 1 tbsp acerola cherry powder optional
- 1 tbsp cacao nibs optional
Add your cherries to a bowl along with the brandy and maple syrup (if using tinned cherries in syrup there may be no need to add the maple syrup to sweeten)
Soak the cherries in the brandy syrup mixture for at least 30mins, in the meantime crack on with making the truffle centre.
In a blender add the melted cacao butter, maple syrup, cherry powder, brown rice flour, extract and raisins. Blitz until you have a smooth dough
Take pieces of the dough and press into your cake pop mould, do this 30x. Using a rounded kitchen tool or your thumb press a cherry sized indent into each piece of moulded dough to make a little cup shape
Add a soaked cherry to 15 of the halves and spoon any excess brandy syrup into the moulded cup.
In the remaining 15 cups add a drop of cherry conserve and pop into the fridge to set the truffle.
Whilst waiting for the truffle centre to firm you can set to work making your chocolate [see packet instructions for details]
Once chilled the truffle cups will pop out of their moulds easily. to seal the two halves together take a small pastry brush or handle of a teaspoon and paint one half of the truffle cup with a cherry in it with your melted chocolate.
Take a truffle cup filled with cherry conserve and press down gently onto your painted cherry cup, repeat until all halves are stuck together.
Return to the fridge to allow the chocolate paint to harden.
Once hardened remove each truffle and dip into your remaining chocolate to coat, placing each coated chocolate on a silicone baking sheet or grease proof paper on a baking tray. Decorate with a topping of your choice and return to the fridge one last time to allow to set.
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They look stunning and sound absolutely delicious! Would love to see them over at #TreatPetite if you’d like to link up :)
Thank you Kat, what a lovely thing to say xx
I made some chocolate with an Indigo Herbs kit a while ago and it was fantastic. These look great and I’d love to try one!
Wowsers! They look amazing!! Definitely don’t look free from anything. I am so with you on the cherry brandy thing – so nice! So I just can’t imagine how lovely these must be. Great idea for homemade Christmas pressies (though I fear if I ever made them I’d just scoff the lot!) Eb x
Oh these look like a lovely treat for a grown up, and would make a lovely handmade gift #freefromfridays
Oh wow Rebecca, your chocolates look amazing, and I admire you for attempting something like this: I think I would stick to the chocolatier’s ones (my nan is very good to me and always buys the finest chocolates as my Christmas pressie – she knows me well!). Your photos are absolutely stunning too. You’ve really got your own style and I love it!!! xxxxx
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Those truffles look amazing! x
Great job! Go you! They look incredibly fiddly, but they have turned out amazing (and sound delicious). Cherry Brandy takes me back to my youth though…… not good memories! x
Another stunning creation you clever lady :)
Thank you darling xx
I love cherry brandy, these look delicious thanks for the recipe and giveway x