Chocolate and Black Pepper Goat Cheese Truffles

Soupereasy, sounds like your recipe was different than the one in the book since the melted chocolate was cooled a bit in the book and then mixed with the goat cheese and pepper before cooling in the fridge and then rolled into balls. Here's a link to the recipe from the book found online at Serious Eats. <a href="http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/04/joy-the-baker-chocolate-black-pepper-goat-cheese-truffles-recipe.html">http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/04/joy-the-baker-chocolate-black-pepper-goat-cheese-truffles-recipe.html</a>

AJ, I'm glad you were somewhat happy with your results but was wondering if you dipped your goat cheese in the chocolate like soupereasy did? If so that's a different recipe from what's in the book. Here's a link from Serious Eats of the recipe that's in the book: <a href="http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/04/joy-the-baker-chocolate-black-pepper-goat-cheese-truffles-recipe.html">http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/04/joy-the-baker-chocolate-black-pepper-goat-cheese-truffles-recipe.html</a>

I actually went to a book store and wrote down the ingredients but not the exact process for the truffles -- so soupereasy's troubles -- since we did them together -- were probably more my abysmal memory than the fault of the recipe -- I just loved the idea of goat cheese, sugar and pepper, but should have paid more attention to the making-of-the-truffle process. Carried away by enthusiasm coupled with inattention to detail -- not a good mix! Thank you very much for the link as I'll definitely make the filling again. Since I'm not much of a truffle lover (just couldn't resist the filling in this recipe), I am going to try that cookie idea.

Your cookie idea sounds great. I love chocolate truffles but don't indulge often but did enjoy these. I found them easier to make than some I've tried.