[Sca-cooks] Chocolate truffles (OOP)

[Tara Sersen Boroson]

Back on Valentine's day, I had the most amazing chocolate truffles.
They were habanero flavored.  They were served as part of a goodie
platter for dessert at an awesome Mexican restaurant.  (The woman who
owns this place actually travels to Mexico to buy the chocolate for mole
and for treats like this...)  Anyway, I wanted to try to recreate them
for Christmas Eve.  Can anybody give me any idea how much pepper to add
to a batch?  Would it be something like 1/2 a pepper to a pound of
chocolate?  More?  Less?  They weren't *hot* per se, they were extremely
rich with a bit of an edge to them initially and then mellowed to a nice
tingly warmness in your mouth.  Kind of like jalapeno-strawberry jelly.

Anybody have truffle recipes to share, since I'm on this kick?  :)  I'm
also going to try hazelnut and coffee flavored ones.  I've only made
plain ones in the past.

-Magdalena