Whats on my Cookbook Stand? (Part 03) – Chocolate Truffles from Cook Yourself Thin

I had high hopes for this one (recipe here). They looked delicious when they were demonstrated on TV in the programme of the same name and they’re ’skinny’ to, excellent. I’ve just tried to make them and it did not go well. It all went apparently well until the point where I had to put the truffle mixture in the fridge to cool for 1/2 hour, 1/2 hour came and went and the mixture was not the ‘almost solid’ the book promised, so I left it in there for a further 20 minutes and although a bit more solid when I checked again, when I tried to roll the truffles it was nigh on impossible, as the mixture was just too floppy and wouldn’t remotely hold its shape. I’m going to leave the mixture in the fridge overnight, you never know, it might be ok tomorrow. I’m wondering if it’s because I brought the wrong chocolate, one of the hazards of getting your food online, you can’t read the labels properly. I brought Menier Chocolate which when I checked the label after I unpacked it said that it was patiserrie chocolate for ‘cakes and fine desserts’, I’m wondering whether that would of made the chocolate too runny? I’d be very interested to know if anyone else has tried this recipe and had more success than I had. Feel like I would have made better use of the chocolate if I’d used it in that chocolate cake they made last Tuesday.