Holleys Fine Foods is the UK's leading premium grocery wholesaler, curating and delivering a superb range of ambient foods to delight our customers and increase basket spend in stores. Our focus on availability, range, delivery and service provides the certainty our customers need to enable their business success. Pour the Guinness into a large wide saucepan, add the butter — in spoons or slices — and heat until the butter's melted, at which time you should whisk in the cocoa and sugar. Beat the sour cream with the eggs and vanilla and then pour into the brown, buttery, beery pan and finally whisk in the flour and bicarb. Truffles are minimal in ingredients, so make sure to start with a high quality chocolate and one that is preferably at least 60% cacao. The quality of the chocolate will heavily impact the flavor. Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Vegetable Oils (Palm Oil, Sal Oil, Shea Oil, Cottonseed Oil, Mango Oil, Rapeseed Oil, Sunflower Oil), Glucose Syrup, Guinness Beer (6%) (contains Barley, Gluten), Cocoa Butter, Dried Whole Milk, Neutral Spirit, Dried Skimmed Milk, Dextrose, Flavourings (Malt Beer, Vanilla), Humectant (Sorbitol Syrup), Emulsifier (Soya Lecithin).

When the cake's cold, sit it on a flat platter or cake stand and get on with the icing. Lightly whip the cream cheese until smooth, sieve over the icing sugar and cornflour and then beat to combine.

Guinness Dark Chocolate Truffles

This recipe is particularly easy because it does not require tempering. However, if you’re feeling ambitious you can definitely skip the cocoa powder coating and enrobe your truffles in tempered chocolate instead! (See this post for detailed instructions on enrobing truffles in chocolate.) The new Guinness Imperial Gingerbread Spiced Stout is brewed with allspice, ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg, and then aged in bourbon barrels. Its rich notes of gingerbread and warm notes of bourbon make it a delicious winter sip. Preheat the oven to gas mark 4/180°C/160°C Fan/350ºF, and butter and line a 23cm / 9 inch springform tin.

Meanwhile have the white chocolate melting in a clean bowl over the simmering water. Allow this to cool and then drizzle it all over your Guinness Truffles. I like to think the white chocolate looks like the creamy head you get on top of a glass of Guinness. Don’t cover the truffles completely just swish it over them. Don’t you just love recipes with only a few ingredients. Even better when those are things you often have in your larder/store cupboard.

Pantry

These Guinness chocolates are quite soft at room temperature due to the amount of beer in them. So store them in the fridge and bring them out just before you want to serve them. How many Guinness chocolate truffles does this make? Be sure to choose a good-quality couverture (such as Callebaut or Valrhona) for this recipe, rather than grocery store chocolate chips. These truffles are also a fantastic way to use up all of the “odds and ends” of leftover chocolate left over from other recipes, or chocolate that has been previously tempered. Take a teaspoon and make small balls out of the truffle mix and press down slightly to make them into little patties on a tray lined with baking parchment.

Melt the dark and milk chocolate together to get a really rich chocolatey base for your Guinness truffles. Do not add the white chocolate, that comes right at the end, so don’t eat it while you are doing everything else and polishing off the bottle of Guinness too. Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Vegetable oils (Palm, rapeseed and sunflower), Cocoa Butter, Glucose Syrup, dried whole milk( Milk), Dried skimmed milk( Milk), flavourings, dextrose, Guinness beer( Barley,Gluten), Humectant (Sorbitol syrup), Neutral spirit, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin( Soybean), preservative (sorbic acid), Barley Malt Extract( Cereals containing gluten), Beyond the sip—you guessed it—I created these gold dusted truffles with some. It’s rich, decadent and most of all – SO EASY TO MAKE! These truffles are made for gifting. What more can I say? Make some, gift some and spread the holiday joy! To start, open Guinness Imperial Gingerbread Spiced Stout while you prepare this so that it flattens a bit.It’s that time of year again, when all things point to tradition. In my home that means the tree goes up Nov 1 and comes down February-ish. Four months of holiday is insane by most people’s standard, but 2020 is writing new normals for us all. Insane might be the new genius, so I may be setting a new trend with all my extended holiday merry making.