Hey guys, it’s Ro!
Welcome to another Nerdy Nummies!
As you guys know, I love Game of Thrones!
Especially the Targaryens, I love
Daenerys Targaryen, her character is amazing!
So I thought, let’s make some
themed treats, today I’m gonna be making some Dragon Egg themed treats.
We’re gonna be making chocolate almond truffles that look like the
3 Dragon Eggs, let’s get started!
The things you will need, to make these Chocolate Almond Dragon Egg Truffles will be,
let’s start with the tools: You’ll need a baking sheet, lined with a piece of
parchment paper, a cooling rack, and some type of scoop, I’m using a cookie scoop!
3 Paint brushes, petal dust, we’ve got black, 2 different shades of green,
and then dark gray and white luster dust.
And then for the recipe, you’ll need
some sliced almonds, dark chocolate, 1 cup of cream, 1/4 of a vanilla bean,
and 1/4 teaspoon of almond extract.
Now let’s put it all together!
The first thing that we’re gonna do is make our ganache.
Right here I have a little cutting mat and a sharp cutting knife, and I’m gonna
take my vanilla bean.
And I’ve cut it down the middle and all the little seeds
are inside, right here.
And we’re gonna scrape it out using our sharp cutting knife.
And I’m gonna put it over here in my pot.
Then I’m gonna add my cream and almond extract.
I chopped up my chocolate into little bits, we’re gonna need 2 cups, now
we’re gonna take the chocolate, and our pot over to the stove!
To make our ganache, turn the heat to medium and allow the cream to come
to a full scald.
There will be bubbles all around the outside and starting
to come to the middle, but you don’t want it to boil!
Right before it’s about to boil, turn off the heat and then pour it over
the chopped chocolate.
Give the bowl a jiggle to settle the chocolate into the
cream, and allow the mixture to set for 3 minutes.
Then, whisk together until smooth and glossy.
Once mixed, place it in the
refrigerator to set, about 15-20 minutes.
After your ganache has set in the fridge, now we are gonna assemble our little
Dragon Egg Truffles!
It’s a little bit messy, so I’ve got gloves, and over here I’ve got a cookie
sheet, it’s lined with a piece of parchment paper, and our cookie scoop.
Now let’s get to it!
I’m gonna put on these gloves, my Valeryian Steel
ring is hanging out, it’s pretty good!
Oops, this is backwards!
Take your cookie scoop, roop!
Then I’m gonna put it in my hand, then I’m gonna shape it into an oval,
to look like a Dragon Egg!
Then we’re gonna do this with the rest of our ganache!
And now it is time for my favorite part, it is time to decorate!
We are gonna add a whole bunch of sliced almonds onto our chocolate truffle,
so that they will look like a Dragon Egg!
Take your almond slices, and I’m gonna start at the top, and then add layer,
by layer, by layer, by layer, and work your way to the bottom.
So it looks really scaly like a Dragon Egg.
Now we’re gonna do this to the rest of our truffles!
We’ve got our chocolate almond truffles assembled and I’ve placed them on top of
our drying rack, and underneath there’s a piece of parchment paper on a
cookie sheet, because we are gonna be covering them in royal icing that
I’ve got over here, to look like the colors of the dragons.
We have black royal icing over here, to look like Drogon.
White royal icing to look like Viserion.
And green royal icing to look like Rhaegal.
I’m gonna start with the white royal icing, I've mixed it with a little bit more
water so it will be more runny, you'll see it’s dripping,
and that’s what we want!
And we're just gonna cover the whole treat.
You can also scoop it on with a spoon.
And then I’m gonna use a toothpick to smooth it over.
Daenerys only has 3 Dragons, but, I’m gonna be making 6 truffles just because
they’re so good!
All of our truffles are iced, and now I’m gonna put a second coat onto our white
Dragon Eggs, and after that’s done I’m gonna let them sit for a few hours
to drip and dry!
Then we’ll add some final finishing touches!
Our truffles have dried, and I’ve picked them up and moved them over to a new
rack, we’re gonna add a little bit of pearl dust and shimmer dust to each
of the eggs, to make them look more petrified, like in the story.
For our White Dragon Egg again, we’re gonna be adding a little bit of silver, and gold,
I forgot to mention this, I didn’t think I had any left, but yes, I had a
full thing of gold shimmer!
For our Green Dragon Eggs, we’re gonna be dusting them 2 different colors,
there's a light green and a dark green.
I’m gonna dust the top of the egg a light
green and the bottom a dark green, gives it a very light ombre.
Which is something I’ve been thinking about doing with my hair…
Lastly we are gonna add black shimmer dust and a gray/silver to our
Black Dragon Egg.
I’m gonna go a little bit heavier with the silver at the
top, and black shimmer at the bottom, but I’m gonna dust it all over!
Ta-da!
Here are the Chocolate Almond Truffles that we decorated to look like the
3 different Dragon Eggs from Game of Thrones.
If you have any friends who
love chocolate and like Game of Thrones, like me…
This may be the perfect treat to share.
And, if you have Game of Thrones viewing
parties, like I do, this may be a fun themed treat to make!
I’ll be posting lots of pictures of these little truffles on Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram and Tumblr, and if you guys make these, please take a picture
and send it to me, I get a big kick out of your baking creations.
I just love seeing ‘em, it makes my day!
And if you have any other ideas
for any other Nerdy Nummies, please let me know, leave me a comment down below
and I will do my best to make it happen!
Alright, thanks again you guys, bye-bye!
Let’s see what a Dragon Egg tastes like…
Mmmmmmm!
And, if you want to heat them up a little bit…
‘Dracarys!’