Name: Chocolate Orange Balls Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: ½ medium Orange juice and zest; ½ medium Orange zest; 1½ cup Nuts or nuts mixture (we used Walnut, almond, hazelnut, pumpkin seed); 1 cup Dried fruit (Raisin, dates...); 1 tablespoon Cacao powder; 1 teaspoon Cinnamon; ½ medium Orange juice; ½ medium Orange zest; 1½ oz Nuts or nuts mixture (we used Walnut, almond, hazelnut, pumpkin seed); 1 cup Dried fruit (Raisin, dates...); 1 tablespoon Cacao powder; 1 teaspoon Cinnamon; ¼ cup Chocolate; 2 tablespoons Butter; 1¼ cup Chocolate; ¾ cup Whipping cream; 1 medium Orange zest; ¼ cup Chocolate; 2 tablespoons Butter

Do we really like chocolate or we just have it because we used to? Let’s make a couple of chocolate orange balls and find it out!

Instructions

Beginner

Get a shredder and remove the orange’s peel then juice it.
Add all the ingredients into a food processor.
Process the ingredients until there is a uniform mixture.
Make walnut sized (15-20g) balls out of the dollop.

Advanced

Add orange zest, orange juice, nuts, dried fruits, cocoa powder, cinnamon into a food processor then process the ingredients until there is a uniform mixture.
Make walnut sized (15-20g) balls out of the dollop.
Melt chocolate and butter.
Dip the orange chocolate balls into chocolate then let them cool off on a rack.

Overkill

Melt chocolate, cream and orange zest.
Let the mixture cool until no longer runny and can hold its shape when spooned onto a parchment paper for about a 30 minutes.
Spoon the chocolate onto parchment paper.
Let them cool more until the chocolate is no longer liquid but still soft.
Roll them into a ball. It's quite dirty work and there is no way around it. Be prepared for licking chocolate off fingers!
Melt chocolate and butter. Dip the chocolate balls into chocolate. The last two steps are only necessary for visual purposes otherwise the chocolate orange balls are ready to roll.