Culinary Adventures with Camilla

In an effort to make all of my holiday gifts this year, we are sharing recipes for hand-crafted edibles. Over the course of twelve weeks, we'll be sharing recipes that you can make at home to give to friends and loved ones, or things to serve at holiday parties. We hope you'll follow along for inspiration. You can find out more information, including the schedule:  here . This week, we are letting out our inner chocolatiers shine, sharing all sorts of recipes with chocolate. Here's what we're posting this week... Amy's Cooking Adventures  shared 10+ Homemade Candies Fantastical Sharing of Recipes created Salted Chocolate Cookie Butter Bark Cookaholic Wife  cooked Peanut Butter M&M Bark Making Miracles  made White Chocolate Peppermint Fudge Christmas Tree Lane  posted Dark Chocolate Pomegranate Bark A Day in the Life on the Farm  wrote about Fruit and Nut Clusters Culinary Adventures with Camilla  rolled some Saffron Truffles ...

This month Random Recipes (hosted by Belleau Kitchen ) meets We Should Cocoa (hosted by Chocolate Log Blog ). I'm in! All three of my boys helped me pick the recipe. Click for that post: here . This was my random recipe: Chocolate Truffle Tart from Chocolate: Cooking with the World's Best Ingredient by Christine McFadden and Christine France. See... And here's the recipe, slightly adapted. I did goof when I forgot to put the cocoa powder in the tart crust. Whoops. It was still delicious! For the Crust 2 C flour 1/2 C softened butter 1/2 C organic, coconut sugar 1/4 C olive oil 1 T cold water For the Truffle Filling 1-1/2 C organic heavy cream 12 ounces of bittersweet chocolate, chipped 1/4 C butter, cut into cubes 2 T Liquore Strega (the original recipe called for 'brandy or liqueur' I went with a saffron liqueur) Mix the flour, sugar and salt; rub in the butter with olive oil until the mixture resembles coa...