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Melt in your mouth white chocolate truffles are creamy with a delicate champagne flavor, making them the perfect dessert for your New Year's Eve party! Check out all my other champagne-centered recipes that are perfect for New Year's Eve.

You may have noticed that I close out each year with a champagne-y recipe – and this year is no exception.

It's tradition to toast to a new year with a glass of bubbly, and even though it's cliche it's a tradition I embrace. Which is honestly kind of funny because every New Year's Eve Bill and I make elaborate tacos and margaritas and do a big puzzle, and that has nothing to do with champagne.

Maybe this year we'll try these Champagne Margaritas from Ali at Gimme Some Oven… mmm, tequila. Still looking into which kind(s) of tacos we want to make this year, because even though we have a Mexican-inspired dinner each year, we like to mix up the meal itself.

We're not the type to go out for some big party for NYE, but I am toying with the idea of throwing a party to ring in 2020 because I had this idea that we could throw a “roaring 20's” party. And you just know I'm going to make people wear flapper girl dresses, pinstriped suits and fedoras.

OR MAYBE I'LL JUST DRESS THAT WAY THE WHOLE YEAR. Oh man, I'm looking forward to 2020.

Aaaaaaaanyway. This year we're going to pop some of these white chocolate champagne truffles after our tacos and I strongly feel like you should join us in doing yourself. It could be fun, we could call each other and toast our truffles into the phones!

… and then wipe the chocolate and sprinkles off of them because it was sort of a stupid thing to do.

Ingredients for white chocolate champagne truffles

10 ounces high quality white chocolate, chopped
2 Tablespoons heavy cream
2 ounces champagne
8 ounces white chocolate candy melts
Gold sprinkles, optional for garnish

How to make white chocolate champagne truffles

On the stovetop, fill a medium sized sauce pan with 1-2″ of water and bring it to a low simmer. Place a double broiler pan or otherwise heat-proof bowl on top of the sauce pan. The bowl should not be touching the water.
Add the 10 ounces chopped white chocolate and heavy cream to the bowl, stirring constantly with a whisk until the chocolate has melted. It will be thick and almost seem like it has “broken”, but this is what you want! Remove from heat.
Add the champagne and whisk again to completely combine and the mixture is smooth.
Transfer to a separate medium bowl and cover with plastic wrap – place in the fridge to set (at least 1 hour, preferably 2). If you find that your mixture is too soft to scoop into balls, melt another 1 ounce of white chocolate and stir it into the bowl until smooth again, and refrigerate for another 1 hour (minimum).
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, wax paper or a nonstick silicon mat. Set aside.
Use a small cookie scoop (aff link) or teaspoon (depending on the size you'd like them to be) to scoop each ball onto prepared baking sheets. Note that the mixture will be softer than your typical chocolate truffle ganache, but should still be scoopable and not runny.
Use your hands to quickly roll each into a ball, place back on baking sheet and place back in the fridge to set again since they're on the softer side to begin with and you've now warmed them up with your hands a little (at least 30 minutes in the fridge, or 15 minutes in the freezer).
In a double boiler, melt white chocolate candy melts until smooth and using a toothpick or candy dipper (aff link), coat each ball in chocolate and place back on prepared baking sheet. If you're going to add any sprinkles or other garnish, top each one as soon as you've placed them back on the sheet.
Let the chocolate set, serve and enjoy! If making them ahead of time, store in an airtight container in the fridge until ready to serve.

How do they taste?

These little guys are melt in your mouth creamy. Seriously. We're using white chocolate, heavy cream, butter and champagne for the centers, so your teeth sink right into them with ease while you close your eyes to cherish the moment.

If you were looking for some sort of cake ball situation, you're out of luck and will need to look elsewhere. We're going for decadence here.

Don't worry if they don't look perfect!

You're absolutely right, they don't. As you've seen with other recipes on the blog, I'm not good at candy dipping. They're always kinda lumpy, misshapen and awkward. But you know what? It doesn't affect the taste in the least so it really doesn't matter.

Does it bother me, aesthetically speaking? Of course. But one of my new year's resolutions is to worry less, so in the grand scheme of things… my truffles being flawless just isn't high on my list of concerns.

Oh no, they're too soft!

If you've found that even after a couple hours in the fridge, your truffle ganache is too soft for proper scooping – there's a relatively easy fix.

In a double broiler over low heat, melt another 1 ounce of white chocolate until smooth, then whisk it into your bowl of truffle ganache until combined and smooth. Place it back in the fridge for another hour (or more).

White chocolate is the softest of the chocolates due to the cocoa butter content, so you typically want a 3:1 ratio of white chocolate to heavy cream.

But since we're also adding champagne (liquid) into the mix, we want to compensate for that a higher ratio of white chocolate – or more, if you deem it necessary.

Not soft enough?

Having the opposite problem? There's an equally easy fix:

In a double broiler over low heat, slightly heat up your truffle ganache mixture and add another 1 Tablespoon heavy cream and whisk until smooth.
Place it back in the fridge for another hour (or more).

Quality white chocolate matters

Keep in mind, the quality of the white chocolate you're using can play into the results of your recipe. Always use a high quality white chocolate you like the flavor of that you'd be willing to snack on. My go-to is Ghirardelli.

Dipping the truffles in white chocolate coating

I emphasize again that these truffles are on the softer side, so you'll want to work quickly to ensure that they don't fall apart or melt into the warm white chocolate candy coating.

Use a double broiler over low heat to melt your white chocolate candy melts until smooth.
Slide the edge of your candy dipper (aff link) or fork under the truffle ball.
Gently drop the truffle into the melted chocolate and push it just under the surface of the white chocolate.
Lift it out of the white chocolate and let the residual white chocolate drop down back into the double broiler bowl. You can also gently slide the candy dipper (aff link) over the edge of the bowl to remove the excess.
Place the candy dipper (aff link) with freshly coated truffle over your prepared baking sheet, and tilt it so the edge of the truffle touches the sheet. Use your finger (or another utensil) to smoothly slide the candy dipper (aff link) or fork out from under the truffle.
If you're going to add some sprinkles or other garnish, do it now while the white chocolate is still wet!

How to serve white chocolate champagne truffles

I am a fan of a beautiful tablescape, but having cats in the house makes it difficult to put anything together that's not going to see its doom shortly thereafter. It pretty much guarantees spilled drinks, smashed truffles and some sort of sticky mess by the time it's through.

Instead, I like to toss the truffles on a decoration tray with a handful of sprinkles and a strand of tiny twinkly lights along with your glasses of champagne. It's simple, pretty, and easy to relocate when the animals have decided their next plan of attack on your good time.

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Looking for more bubbly for your New Year's Eve celebrations?

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Sugar Plum Cocktail by Foodal
Nutella Champagne Dip
Sparkling Pomegranate Cosmopolitan by Whitney Bond
Champagne Cupcakes
Pomegranate Prosecco Kombucha Cocktail by Hunger Thirst Play
French 75 Cocktail
Blood Orange Champagne Mules by Half Baked Harvest
Cranberry Mimosas

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