Tis the Season to Give….Chocolate!

Gift Certificates for the '6 House Pub and the 1896 House make wonderful stocking stuffers for that special person in your life or a great getaway for your parents (or your kids).

In addition, everyone loves goodies for the holidays, especially CHOCOLATE ones and what better way to tell your family and friends how much you appreciate and love them is make them chocolate truffles!

Here are some links to my favorite, easy to make and delicious recipes from around the web:

Easy Chocolate Truffles

http://www.marthastewart.com/356071/easy-chocolate-truffles

With this recipe, I prefer to leave the cardomom out and the lemon peel actually tastes better zested

Nutella Chocolate Truffles (these are a totally yummy!)

http://steamykitchen.com/13940-nutella-chocolate-truffles-recipe.html

Avocado-Chocolate Truffle Recipe (strange sounding but delicious)

http://whatscookingamerica.net/Candy/AvocadoChocTruffles.htm

As an alternative to rolling the truffles in powered sugar, they are wonderful rolled in toasted and then fine ground up almonds.

Baileys Irish Cream Chocolate Truffles

http://www.grouprecipes.com/27314/baileys-irish-cream-chocolate-truffles.html

With this recipe, while very easy to make, just make sure you don't hit the chocolate up too much as you are stirring in the egg yolks as you could end up with chocolate scrambled eggs. J

Easy Champagne Chocolate Truffles

http://www.epicurean.com/featured/champagne-chocolate-truffles-recipe.html

For this recipe you can do without the orange oil and it tastes a tad better with a touch more sugar then the recipe requires.