Balsamic Chocolate Truffles

Balsamic Chocolate Truffles

Ingredients
8 1/2 ounces dark chocolate, chopped (recommended: Valrhona)
1/4 cup cream
2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
1/2 cup cocoa powder

Directions
Melt the chocolate and cream in a double boiler over hot but not simmering water. Place melted chocolate in a small bowl. Stir in the balsamic vinegar. Cool the chocolate in the refrigerator for 1 hour. Remove from the refrigerator and let sit at room temperature for 2 hours, until firm but moldable.
Use a teaspoon to scoop out chocolate. Use your fingertips to shape into balls about the size of a cherry. Set the chocolate balls on a parchment-lined tray.
Place the cocoa powder in a small shallow dish. Place 6 truffles at a time in the cocoa powder and roll the truffles around to coat, and return the coated truffles to the baking sheet. Continue with the remaining truffles. Place the truffles in a serving dish or airtight package.







This is how mine came out. if you like dark chocolate you'll love these. but if you don't you can always use sweeten cocoa. So...what do you think?

It was so much fun! My hands were so sticky.

Potato Bread Cinnamon Roll Recipes

Potato Bread Cinnamon Roll Recipe

In a mixing bowl:

Dissolve: 1 pkg. Dry Yeast (1 tsp)

In: 3/4 cup warm water

Stir in: 1/3 cup sugar

3/4 tsp. salt

1/3 cup soft shortening

1 egg

1/2 cup luke warm mashed patatoes

1 1/2 cups flour

Glaze recipe: 1/3 cup powdered sugar

2 tbsp. milk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix the ingredients with the electric mixer until it passes the sheeting test. GRADUALLY ADD 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 cups unsifted flour, and stir until dough is stiff enough to knead. Note: Dough may be slightly sticky at this point. FLOUR your counter and knead the dough until it is smooth and blistery. Usually around 10-14 minutes. GREASE a bowl and grease the surface of the dough. cover with plastic wrap. Put in refrigerater for 24 hrs.

PUNCH dough and let rest for 5 minutes. ROLL dough out on a non-floured counter surface. roll in the shape of a rectangle. Melt 1/4 cup butter around the edge. PREPARE 1/2 cup of sugar with about 1 tsp. cinnamon. Judge by the color if youhave enough cinnamon. SPRINKLE mixture over the dough. ROLL up and pinch edges together, and cut with string. PREPARE PAN - grease bottom and sides of pand with shortening. bake for 20-25 minutes. Remove from oven, turn pan upside down on foil, mix glaze and drizzle over the cinnamon rolls while still hot. EAT AND ENJOY!!

my surgery

You can imagin how i feel right now, i feel so dizzy and drousy, mainly because of the drugs im taking, YEAH!! I CAN TAKE PILLS NOW I AM SO PROUD OF MYSELF!!!! i think it was because of the horrible taste of crushed pill mixed with water and my mouth was hurting so i dared to try, and i succided! my jaw feels so tense, the outside of my cheeks feel so sore and numb, docter says that they might get as big as chipmunks do when their getting ready for winter...lol!! i think the only thing ill be able to eat is gravy and mash patatos and possibly corn for thanksgiving, but i just can't wait until i get better and having to eat on one side any more and not have so much pressure on my teeth. i mainly thank God for letting this be possible finacially. through God anything is possible!! check out these pics!! their hillarious!!!

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Monday's Rock!!

Monday's are the best,

i just love monday's,

i makes me feel like

i have a whole new week to

do something different

than what i did last week.

And if i did bad last week,

God has giving a

whole new day or week

to make it up or to do something better.

cinnamon rolls

YES!!! I have finally made perfect cinnamon rolls!!! It took me like 4 different times to make them just right! once I didnt let them rise and they came out thin and hard, but good, that happened like twice, one other time I made them too thick and when i thought they were ready i put glaze all over them, and when i went to take one out they were raw, yeah that didnt work! lol! I went to school the next day and i have a colinary art class and i learned that your suppose to mix warm water with yeast before you put it in the recipe, yeah i lelt dumb, i should of known that. So then next time i did that, and waited two days and made them perfectly!!!! i was so proud of myself!!! check them out!!!