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Noel's Irish Cream Truffles

Ingredients:

10 oz (2 cups) - Semisweet chocolate wafers
40z (1/2 cup) - Heavy cream
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1.5 oz (3 tablespoons) - Unsalted butter
1 oz (3tablespoons) - Baileys Irish Cream*


Instructions:
1) Measure out chocolate and place in a medium sized microwave safe bowl.
2) Heat up creme on stove in a sauce pot until just before a boil.  Once you see bubbles coming up from the creme take off the heat.
3) Add the hot creme directly to the chocolate.  Let sit for 2 minutes and then whisk together.  If the chocolate does not fully melt then put bowl of chocolate and cream in the microwave for 15 seconds at a time, stiring inbetween, until chocolate is fully melted.
4) Add room temperature unsalted but to the "Ganache"(chocolate and cream mixture) and stir until it is melted in and incorporated to the ganache.
5) Add the Bailey's Irish Cream to the Ganache and whisk together.  Let cool in refridgerator with plastic wrap over the ganache.

*If you do not want to use alcohol then you can replace this with an extract or even different flavors like orange zest or mint leaves.  If you want to infuse orange or mint into the ganache then add that to the cream and heat it with the cream. This will infused the flavor into the cream.  Remove orange zest or mint leaves before pooring into chocolate.