Melt Ingredients for Chocolate Truffles

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Probably the most finiky part in dealing with chocolate is the melting of it. We've got to get from this, to a nice creamy, rich, smooth chocolate truffle. So we're going to have to melt the chocolate. There are a couple of ways to do that and you can pick different ways. But once you find a way that works, and I'm going to tell you what really works for me, I recommend, stick with it. I can tell you from personal experience, recent experience, that I was in a hurry one day and I was trying to make some truffles, and I thought, I'll just throw a couple of these different melting techniques together and think that I'll go faster, and get it done faster, and really, I ended up ruining two batches of very good chocolate. So I want to show you what works for me and I recommend, stick with it once you really get it down pack, because chocolate is very tempermental and very finiky, and the melting of chocolate, I know, it sounds bizarre like you could stick it in a microwave and it'd work, but when you start adding stuff it's not quite that simple, so I really recommend sticking to this technique. Next we're going to start melting all of our ingredients together, and combining everything. We're going to start with our six tablespoons of unsalted butter in a saucepan on medium heat, which is lower than what I have it, and adding a fourth of a cup of the heavy cream, dink, dink, dink, dink, dink. And this is going to come together, you're just going to mix it together. You want this to come to a simmer, just for a little while. Make sure it doesn't burn, it can do that. I just like swirling this, and while this is melting together, I'm going to go work on my chocolate a little bit. But just to let you know, you do want this to come to a low simmer, or, maybe I should say a low boil, slash, simmer. Let it simmer for a few minutes just to get it good and hot. Make sure the heat is all the way through the butter and the cream, but it does need to be blended together completely.

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