Show off your kitchen skills with these elegant DIY chocolate truffles. They are a lovely treat to have at functions or parties, and they’re super easy to make, we promise!

MAKES 30 // COOKING TIME 1 hour (leave overnight)

INGREDIENTS
For the dark-chocolate truffles
180 g good-quality dark chocolate, finely chopped
120 ml cream
10 g butter
For the white-chocolate truffles
200 g white caramel chocolate, finely chopped
100 g butter
2 tbsp cream
1 tsp vodka
1 egg yolk
For the coatings
50 g cranberries, finely chopped
50 g pistachios, finely chopped
20 g desiccated coconut, lightly toasted
Sweet cocoa mix (2 tsp cocoa + 2 tsp icing sugar)

METHOD
For the dark-chocolate truffles
1. Melt the chocolate, cream and butter in a double boiler over low heat. Remove it from the heat immediately after the mixture has come together.
2. Place in the fridge and leave to cool overnight.
3. Scoop out tablespoons of the mixture and roll into balls. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
For the white-chocolate truffles
1. Melt together the chocolate, butter, cream and vodka over low heat. Remove it from the heat immediately after the mixture has come together.
2. Beat in the egg yolk with an electric mixer.
3. Place in the fridge and leave to cool overnight.
4. Scoop out tablespoons of the mixture and roll into balls. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
5. Serve white and dark chocolate truffles with a choice of DIY coatings.

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There’s nothing more pleasurable than a freshly brewed cup of coffee in the mornings. Not to mention after a lovely dinner with your guests. Now we’ve taken it a step further to show you how to change your coffee game, to change that brew in such a way that you and your friends and family will never forget!

By Mikaela Kagan & Jana du Plessis

1. FRESHLY GROUND

The more freshly ground your beans, the better the flavour of your coffee. So, instead of buying bags of pre-ground coffee off the shelf, use whole beans and ground them yourself just before brewing. Measure out about a tablespoon of beans per cup you’d like to make and grind them in your spice or coffee grinder until fine. We’ve also read that you can use a good old pestle and mortar to do the job – if you’re up for the elbow grease, go ahead! But if you are a coffee machine person, don’t worry! Here. are some of our favourites for every personality and every budget.

2. LIFT IT UP

You can brew your coffee plain, but let’s be honest, there’s nothing extraordinary about that. Mix some dried chilli flakes or citrus zest with your grounds to add a whole new flavour dimension. You can also get creative with the add-ins you offer your fellow caffeine-aficionados. Vanilla sugar tastes heavenly, a pinch of salt will smooth it out and a dash of whipped cream will always put a smile on anyone’s face.

3. EXPAND HORIZONS

We love sipping on a good cup of coffee as much as the next person, but what we also appreciate is how versatile coffee can be beyond being poured it into a cup. Who would have thought that it would it add a dark, rich and incredibly decadent flavour to your Sunday roast? Find out by making our coffee-rubbed silverside with chocolate-chilli butter. And if you love peanut butter for breakfast, serve it up in our get-up-and-go smoothie. And for our favourite funky application, we present our ever-popular salted caramel chocolate cake. Adding a hot cuppa to your cake batter will result in a sponge so soft and moist, you will hardly believe it.

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