Dark Chocolate Nut Butter Truffles

Ingredients (makes 10-12 truffles)

• 100g 54% dark couverture chocolate, chopped fine
• 125g cream 
• 50g walnut butter {recipe follows}
• 25g dried cranberries

To dip

• 200g 54% dark couverture chocolate
• 10ml extra virgin olive oil
• Place the chocolate in a bowl. Heat the cream to almost boiling, then pour over the chocolate and let it stand for 10-15 minutes until soft. Whisk gently until smooth and leave to come to room temperature.
• Stir in the nut butter and dried cranberries, then cling wrap and refrigerate for a couple of hours or overnight until firm enough to shape into balls.
• Roll into walnut-sized balls, and place in the freezer while you make the melted chocolate dip.
• Place the chocolate over a double boiler and stir until melted. Whisk in the olive oil.
• Immediately dip the truffles into the melted chocolate and stand to set. Drizzle over with more melted chocolate.

Walnut Butter

• 250g walnuts
• Pinch sea salt
• 2 tbsp jaggery powder
• Preheat the oven to 180C.
• Bake the walnuts at 180C for 10-12 minutes until fragrant. Make sure they don't get over-brown, or else the walnut butter will get bitter.
• Place in blender and process in short pulses until the walnuts get pasty, then begin releasing oil.
• Add a pinch of salt and the jaggery powder.
• Transfer to a glass bottle and store in the fridge.