Alton Brown'S To Die For Truffles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

10 ounces chocolate (chopped finely. I like to use morsels because chopping takes forever)
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
1 tablespoon cognac (if desired and available)
5 -10 ounces chocolate (enough melted chocolate to coat truffles)
cocoa powder (shredded and toasted) (optional) or confectioners' sugar (shredded and toasted) (optional)

Preparation

combine cream and corn syrup into a medium sized pot and bring to a simmer.
while cream and syrup mixture cooks, add chocolate and butter to microwave for 30 seconds on high
take out and stir.
repeat # 2.
take cream concoction and pour over chocolate (this is also where you will add cognac) wait ten minutes before you stir together.
after stirring all ingredients, pour into a flat baking pan and let cool in fridge for 1 hour.
take out the mixture and scoop to form balls of chocolate.
dip chocolate into melted chocolate desired and then coat with various coating.
let shells air dry for about 4 minutes.
serve immediately or.
store in air tight container in fridge.