{"id":84292,"date":"2009-12-16T00:05:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T05:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/?p=135653"},"modified":"2009-12-16T00:05:45","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T05:05:45","slug":"eggnog-truffles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/84292","title":{"rendered":"Eggnog Truffles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of eggnog in your mug this holiday season, make these delicious <strong>Eggnog Truffles<\/strong>. These rich truffles are easy to make, using white baking chocolate, cream cheese and spices from <a href=\"http:\/\/mccormick.com\/\">McCormick<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prep Time: <\/strong>25 minutes<br \/>\n<strong>Refrigerate:<\/strong> 5 hours<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_135655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 510px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135655\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.blisstree.com\/files\/2009\/12\/eggnog-truffles.jpg\" alt=\"Image: Courtesy of McCormick\" width=\"500\" height=\"466\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Courtesy of McCormick<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 pound white baking chocolate, divided<\/li>\n<li>4 ounces (1\/2 package) cream cheese, softened<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup confectioners\u2019 sugar<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 teaspoon McCormick Ground Nutmeg<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 teaspoon McCormick Imitation Rum Extract<\/li>\n<li>McCormick Ground Nutmeg (for sprinkling)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Directions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Melt 8 ounces of the chocolate as directed on package. Beat cream cheese, confectioners\u2019 sugar, nutmeg and extract in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended and smooth. Add melted chocolate; beat until well mixed. Cover. Refrigerate 4 hours or until firm.<\/li>\n<li>Shape into 24 (about 3\/4-inch) balls. Place on wax paper-lined tray. Refrigerate until ready to dip.<\/li>\n<li>Coat only 12 truffles at a time. Melt 4 ounces of the remaining chocolate in small microwavable bowl on MEDIUM, 1 1\/2 minutes, stirring after 1 minute. Using a fork, dip 1 truffle at a time into the chocolate.  Place on wax paper-lined tray. Sprinkle truffles with nutmeg.  Repeat with remaining 4 ounces chocolate and remaining truffles.<\/li>\n<li>Refrigerate 1 hour or until chocolate is set. Store truffles in refrigerator up to 1 week.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Makes 2 dozen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Test Kitchen Tip: <\/strong>When dipping the truffles, do so in 2 batches (as directed above in Step 3) as the coldness of the truffles may cause the melted chocolate to harden.\u00a0 For more holiday recipes, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/McCormick.com\">McCormick.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/eggnog-truffles\/\">Eggnog Truffles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of eggnog in your mug this holiday season, make these delicious Eggnog Truffles. These rich truffles are easy to make, using white baking chocolate, cream cheese and spices from McCormick. Prep Time: 25 minutes Refrigerate: 5 hours Image: Courtesy of McCormick Ingredients: 1 pound white baking chocolate, divided 4 ounces (1\/2 package) cream cheese, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}