Christmas Pudding Truffles

[st_aurafina]

rydra_wong asked me to link Christmas pudding truffles here, but I was fully sozzled when I wrote that post, so I've made a slightly more coherent version for people who like recipes.

Ingredients:
1 Christmas pudding (or fruit cake or cake of any sort, really) Mine was 600g.
100g-ish of dark chocolate
2 desert spoons of orange flavoured liqueur (I used Cointreau, someone recommended Grand Marnier as tasting less like cough syrup)
A largish amount of dark chocolate for melting and coating... I wish I had weighed this, but the Cointreau bottle was empty by now. Maybe a cup of chocolate buttons? Maybe a bit more?

Method:
Crumble pudding or cake into fine crumbs (you could pulse in a food processor, also)

Sprinkle liqueur over the crumbs and mix.

Melt 100g of chocolate in a bowl over a pan of simmering water, then mix in with crumbs.

Pop the crumbs/chocolate/grog mixture in the fridge to chill for 30 minutes or so.

Shape the crumbs into truffle-sized balls, line them up on a tray lined with baking paper and refrigerate for another 30 minutes or so.

Meanwhile, melt the large and unspecified amount chocolate in double boiler. Use two forks or a truffle baller to dip the balls in the melted chocolate. Tap excess chocolate off, place truffle on tray. Refrigerate batch.

Enjoy tiny Christmas puddings! You can drizzle white chocolate on top to simulate brandy sauce, if you're feeling fancy or if you can melt white chocolate. (This is outside my skillset, unfortunately!)