A variation on the classic chocolate truffle, the Swiss chocolate truffle requires heating a mixture of dairy cream and butter to its boiling point, then stirring in melted chocolate, and finally transferring the resulting mixture into desired molds (traditionally round ones).
Once the chocolate truffles have hardened, they are rolled into cocoa powder just like the French truffles. Owing to the freshness of the ingredients used in the chocolate truffles' preparation, these sweet confections spoil much more easily and faster than other truffle varieties. Apart from the traditional chocolate flavors which include either milk chocolate or dark chocolate, these truffles can nowadays be found in a great variety of flavors such as coffee, champagne, hazelnut, citrus fruit, or toffee.