White Chocolate Truffles

What You Do:

1. Roughly break up the chocolate. Cut the butter into small pieces. Slowly melt the chocolate and butter pieces in the double boiler or in the bowl on top of the saucepan filled with a little hot water. (An adult should be on hand to supervise.) Stir with the wooden spoon.
2. Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla extract.
3. Tip the egg yolks into a mixing bowl. Gradually whisk the warm chocolate mixture into the eggs. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for about 8 hours, to firm.
4. Place the chocolate mixture on a pastry board. Scoop up some of the mixture with the dessert spoon and roll between your palms into a ball. Repeat until you have used up the chocolate mixture.
5. Sprinkle the powdered sugar over a plate. Then roll the balls in the sugar and set on a sheet of baking paper.
6. Cut pieces of tissue paper and baking paper just large enough to line the gift box. Cut the edges in a zig-zag shape. Place first the tissue paper, then the baking paper in the box. Fill the box with the truffles.