SHF – Asian Sweet Invasion

This month, SHF is hosted by Amrita form La Petite Boulangette and the theme she chose was Asian inspired sweets. And she didn’t want us to make a regular asian dessert, but to incorporate an Asian ingredient into a classic dessert recipe. Hmm…

Well, you can’t go wrong with truffles, can you?

I am not posting a recipe because it was an experiment and I took all the ingredients approximately.

What I did was:

Made some azuki and mung bean pastes. There is a great recipe on Petite Kitchen.

Made 10 little balls out of each paste (have to be careful when experimenting, and after all, I’ve never tasted azuki/mung bean paste before), and put them in a freezer.

Melted 100 g dark chocolate and mixed it with about 7 Tbsp of ground walnuts, and chilled it in a fridge. It hardened to much in the fridge, so next time I should put some butter or cream or something to soften it. Rolled another layer around the bean balls. Finally rolled truffles into ground walnuts. This was enough for only 6 truffles :). But, they tasted fine.

I liked the bean paste, and there’s plenty leftover, so I guess it’s gonna be some Asian sweets invasion on my blog soon.