Chocolate Truffles Recipes…Easy!

With three versions of this easy chocolate truffles recipe, your chocolate dessert buffet will be gorgeously filled to the brim. With a few tweaks, the same recipe can be used to create distinctly different chocolate truffle desserts and a will put a plethora of possibilities up your hostessing sleeve! Master a few easy chocolate handling techniques, and you’ll open the door to a gazillion possibilities from coating luscious cakes to creating these delectable delights.

Classic Chocolate truffles recipe

If you’ve never made chocolate truffles before, they may seem intimidating, but trust us when we say that once you have the basics down, it’s a snap. This chocolate truffles recipe and tutorial on truffle basics will give you all the details you need for making perfect chocolate truffles, every time.

Chocolate truffles on lollipop sticks

For this tray of chocolaty treats, we pushed a wooden lollipop stick into each chilled truffle before we dipped them in the chocolate coating. Go for gorgeous presentation with this cake pop kit, available in loads of pretty color combos, that makes it so easy to turn a few truffles into gorgeous chocolate party favors or display them on your chocolate dessert buffet.

Chocolate Truffle Recipe—Tiny Chocolate Almond Tarts

By adding a ¼ teaspoon of almond extract with the heavy cream in your chocolate ganache mixture, the very same truffle ingredients turn into a chocolate almond tart. Silky smooth chocolate ganache tops a simple shortbread cookie crust.

Easy shortbread cookie crust:

2 cups of crushed shortbread cookies
¼ cup melted butter

• Combine melted butter with crushed cookies.
• Press the crust mixture into the bottoms of each well in a mini muffin baking pan. 
• Bake for 5 minutes at 375, or until lightly golden. 
• Let the crusts cool completely and then pour the ganache mixture over each mini crust. Top each tiny tart with a toasted almond slice.

Spicy Chocolate Truffles

These truffles are kicked up a notch with the easy addition of some crushed Thai chilis. Add spice to suit your taste, and roll them in cocoa powder to finish these easy chocolate truffles.

One recipe… one entire chocolate dessert buffet! We love easy.

Halloween Dessert Table

Today we’re telling you our deepest darkest secrets for creating this chocolate buffet for an elegantly creepy Halloween party. Ours was geared toward the adult crowd, but you could certainly make it a family affair.

Deep Dark Halloween Dessert Table secret #1:

Choose a color palette of two to three colors. We used the Autumn Nights collection of Dessert Skirtz cupcake wrappers as our inspiration. We kept the colors consistent with black, ivory, and a bit of olive green.

Deep Dark Halloween Dessert Table secret #2:

Create heights and levels on the table, taking care to balance the look. The items don’t need to be the same, but notice the wire bird cage on the left is balanced with the double basket of pine cones on the right.

Deep Dark Halloween Dessert Table secret #3:

No need to go out and spend a fortune on cake plates and platters. We used a mix of dinner plates, upside down vases, and serving platters, all in ivory.

Deep Dark Halloween Dessert Table secret #4:

Don’t underestimate the power of candlelight. We used a large lantern in the center of our table with a candle to cast creepy shadows against the wall. We also placed a candle inside the birdcage.

Deep Dark Halloween Dessert Table secret #5:

Find items with texture and interesting shapes to add personality to your Halloween desert table. The texture on the ivory vases that we flipped over to create our cupcake platters mimics the tone-on-tone pattern in the olive fabric.

Dark swirls from the metal elements are found in several places on our Halloween dessert table for a cohesive, coordinated look. The metal scroll designs play off the trees in the cupcake wrappers.

Now that we’ve given your all of our deepest darkest dessert table secrets for your Halloween dessert table, cook up some spooky eats and invite your creepy crew!

Stop by again for ideas for filling your dessert table with Halloween desserts your crowd will love!

Halloween Food Ideas

We love that with a few simple Halloween party supplies, you can dress up ordinary food ideas, and instantly transform them into adorable healthy Halloween treats!

With all of the sugar of Halloween, we thought we’d give you a few ideas for making the healthy Halloween treats just as fun. Get your adorable Halloween cupcake wrappers here, and fill ‘em up with these good for you Halloween food ideas. Presentation is everything, and the kids will love it!

Get a little witchy with these string cheese brooms! With a paper straw, and half of a string cheese stick, create these terribly cute Halloween treats! It’s so easy to bring your own party colors into this treat by swapping the straw color! Get your stripy paper straws here.

This is the simplest, cutest Halloween treat idea ever. Just pull out a Sharpie marker, and give each little clementine a face. Rest each one in a Mini Skirtz cupcake wrapper, and display them on the party table. Fruit just got a little more popular!

Everyone loves popcorn. These popcorn balls are a quick mix of warmed corn syrup with a flavor of your choice. Shape them into balls on these perfectly retro wooden sticks and nestle them in a spooky cupcake wrapper for a perfect Halloween display.

Even easier, try a popcorn buffet. Make a tower of favorite popcorn flavors, such as caramel, cheese, or traditional buttered popcorn. Place some fun party bags next to the tower for party guests to fill.

Caramel apples are a fall favorite, but can be sticky and tricky to display. Here we have rested each gooey goody in a cupcake wrapper, making it gorgeously ghoulish. It creates a striking display and a tidy way to eat these monstrous treats.

Are caramel apples too messy for your crowd? Try these caramel apple cups. Simply pour the caramel in the bottom of clear cups and top with sliced apples. Use cupcake wrappers to dress up the cups.

Cheese and crackers become a preciously spooky treat simply by tucking a baking liner into your cupcake wrappers and filling them with sliced cheeses and your favorite crackers.

Feed your little goblins well.