Living in the South, I have grown up knowing iced tea was the king (or queen?) of drinks. I’ve had people ask me if we sit around on our large porches sipping tea. It’s a great mental image, but, unfortunately, I only have a small front porch and my tip sipping is usually spent by grabbing my tea, placing into a to-go mug and running errands. When I received samples of Tradewinds Tea, I decided, “Why not savor our tea by trying a new recipe?” The kids were skeptical. They insisted, “Hey, we like Tradewinds Tea, Mom, why are you going to ruin it by using it in a recipe?” I decided to ignore the skeptics and make my recipe anyway. I think they were glad I did after I was finished. Since it only requires a small amount of tea, the kids were able to enjoy their tall glasses of sweet tea, albeit not on the front porch, and try a sweet treat instead. I would like to hint to my children these truffles would make an excellent Mother’s Day gift. Want to surprise your family with this tempting treat?
- 1 1/4 cup (10 ounces) milk chocolate, finely chopped
- 1/3 cup (3 ounces) heavy whipping cream
- 2 Tablespoons sweetened tea
- 1 package (12 ounces) milk, white or dark chocolate melts
- Bring the cream just to a boil in a heavy pan. Remove from the heat and let cool slightly. Add two tablespoons tea and return to boil. Remove from heat and stir in finally chopped chocolate until mixture is melted and smooth. Cover the truffles and either refrigerate overnight or at least six hours. You can also place in the freezer for a couple of hours. Use an ice cold melon baller or small ice cream scoop to shape the truffles. Melt the chocolate melts in microwave for 30 seconds, stir. Melt for 30 more seconds. Stir until smooth. Roll truffles in chocolate and return to the freezer or to the refrigerator. Keep chilled until ready to serve.
Do you have a tempting dessert to make with tea?
I love chocolate and these look beautiful and the tea addition gives them a gourmet flare!! Thanks for the idea!!
Oh yum! My hubby would LOVE it if I made these!
I have to try those. I have never made a dessert with tea. But I love sweet tea.
I have never considered making a dessert with tea, but I do like to have a glass of tea with desserts to help cut the sweetness.
These look amazing, btw.
I love chocolate. Yum, these look amazing.
How can you not love a good truffle recipe? Pam, these look so yummy! And the tea is a nice twist in the recipe. I will have to try these and let you know what we think!
Oh my goodness, these look amazing! Truffles are my very favorite treat 🙂
This looks sooo yummy! Thank you for the recipe! I wish I could feature it. Please do visit our Tempting Tuesday posts and I’ll be sure to do so!
Yummy, yummy….I would love to have some of these right now.
My gosh, this is a must try – so yummy!
I think I want…no, no. I think I NEED those tea truffles!! I must say that’s quite genius adding tea to truffles–who would have thunk it!? 🙂
Those sound totally delicious…if I could have milk chocolate I would be in for sure!
These Tea Truffles look so delicious and they are perfect for enjoying with a cup of tea or a cup of coffee.
I’m So Drooling Over Here Yum Yum!
I sneak a Truffle into hubby’s lunch every once in awhile and he gets delighted. I bet he’d downright love this in his lunch box. 🙂
Yummy! Those look awesomely delicious. That is a creative use of plain old tea
These look amazing! I would never have thought to add this to my treats!
Yum! I just made strawberry iced green tea and it was delicious. These look great too!
Those sound delicious. I adore truffles and thought it would be much harder to make them.
I love truffles! I’ve never made them but you make it look easier than I would have thought it to be.
Those look yummy! What a lovely little treat!
Oh my. That sounds totally decadent!
I love the idea of using them as flavor in truffles. They sound so good!
I never thought of using tea to cook but those look delicious! I will have to try them out, thanks for the recipe!
Wow, I never knew that you can make truffles with tea. I would love to make this! 🙂
My mom and sisters are huge tea drinkers, so I know they will just love these! Thanks for sharing!!
My boys and husband are the tea drinkers, I have never thought to make anything with it other than their iced tea. Interesting using it to cook with, I bet they would love this – wonder if I would begin that I do not like drinking it. I bet the flavor is different.
This would make a perfect recipe for a tea party. I plan on having a tea party for my daughters third birthday.
I love making (and eating!) truffles, but never thought about using tea in the recipe. I’ll have to give this a try some time.
Sweet tea plus chocolate plus truffles = perfection!
Oh yummy! What a unique idea! I am having a chocolate craving right now, I need these! I never would have thought to use tea in a recipe.. what a cool idea!
I don’t drink tea…but those truffles look amazing!
These look really good! I tried to make truffles one time and they were pretty funny looking, I couldn’t get the chocolate coating on the outside right.
Yum I’ve never made desert with tea before. The truffles sounds soo good!!!
Those are so pretty! I love how the sprinkles on top really fancy them up.
I am miss out, I never had truffles! These look so delicious. Where can I find these already made?
That recipe looks DELICIOUS! What a clever way to use the sweet tea!
What a genius idea, I would never have thought to use tea in a recipe. These sound really good too, perfect for a first try!
Wow, you southerners put that tea in everything! HA! I’ve never had a tea truffle! But I like truffles! YUM!
Truffles are a huge weakness for me! These look devine! I can’t wait to try out. Mmmmm!
Oh my goodness, these sound amazing. I never thought of using tea in a recipe, how awesome
Chocolate & tea sound like a good combo to me!
I am a southerner and love my iced tea also. These truffles sound fantastic! i don’t have much of a front porch, but I do have a big back porch! I would love to try these and relax on the porch in the sun!
yummy, that sounds like a great combination of ingredients!
These sound really neat – I would have never thought to put them together!
i bake with chai tea so why not sweet? Those look awesome.
WHAT? These sound amazing!!! I love truffles and never thought to use tea in them!! Great idea.
I never thought to add tea to a chocolate dessert before. These really look amazing, and make me want some tea too.
I love the fact that you shared this recipe. My sister has just turned Gluten free and she is looking everywhere for recipes.
I used to LOVE drinking sweet tea when I was a southern gal, but now that I’ma damn yankee, I don’t drink it anymore. 🙁
Gosh! I really have to stop licking the screen… BUT those look so good!
Wow this is a clever idea. Thanks for sharing.
Hmmm..chocolate plus tea. That sounds really interesting for a combination. I love them both already on their own. Thanks for sharing that idea.
I haven’t thought about using tea in a recipe but I bet it could be used in a lot of recipes in place of water. It might bump up the flavor in quite a few things! These look awesome, and I like that they are gluten free!
Those look delicious! I never would have thought to add tea to truffles.
Oh those looks amazing! A fantastic way to please a chocolate craving!
Holy Cow! I think I just licked the screen! =) Those look amazing and so yummy!
Good thing you ignored the skeptics! This looks like a great recipe!
was thinking the same thing!! i wouldn’t let them have any more!!
Mmmmm what a great idea to use tea in the recipe. Truffles are so sinfully good.
These are so pretty and look so good too! Thanks for this recipe!
What a fun twist to a truffle! Sounds pretty tasty!! Might have to try it out sometime!
I love making truffles! This sweet tea looks really yummy too!
Oh my goodness, those look divine. I love truffles and I have certainly never had one like this, so I will definitley be trying these.