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Valentine’s Day: Decadent Chocolate Truffles, Three Ways

February 12, 2012 by KerryAnn 9 Comments

Valentine’s Day: Decadent Chocolate Truffles, Three Ways

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What better than truffles for a romantic holiday? These are startlingly easy to make with ingredients you likely already have on hand.  It doesn’t have much hands-on time, it just requires some hands-off time to chillax in the fridge.

According to Michael Ruhlman’s book, Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking, truffles are just ganache made with your choice of flavorings, chilled in the fridge and then rolled in your choice of toppings. Ganache is made from equal measures of coconut milk solids or cream and chocolate. I don’t like a lot of sweet with my chocolate, so dark chocolate is perfect. If your family likes it sweeter, use a chocolate bar with a lower cacao content or add raw honey or another sweetener to the mix.

Personally, even if you’d prefer to have them sweeter, I would recommend going with a dark chocolate and then adding your own choice of sweetener.  Since even most dark bars contain white sugar, going as dark as you can find and then adding your own sweetener is a good bet to minimize your refined sweetener intake. 

 

Decadent Chocolate Truffles

1/2 cup coconut milk solids* or heavy cream
1/4 cup coconut oil
1/2 cup finely chopped dark chocolate
5 drops Concentrace, optional
dash salt, optional
Raw honey, stevia, maple syrup, rapadura or your sweetener of choice, optional
cacao powder or cocoa powder

In a small saucepan, combine the coconut milk solids and coconut oil and heat over medium heat until the mixture begins to wisp with steam. Remove from the heat and whisk in the chocolate.  Allow to sit for a couple of minutes for the chocolate to soften,then whisk until the chocolate has completely melted.  Whisk in the concentrace and salt.  Add your optional flavorings and whisk thoroughly. Taste and adjust sweetness, if desired. Pour into a wide, shallow glass container and place into the freezer for two hours.

Once your mixture is completely solid, scoop out small spoonfuls and roll briefly between your palms to round.  Roll into raw cocao powder or cocoa powder that has been mixed with your preference of flavorings. Return to the fridge to harden.

Store in the fridge.

I made three different flavors-

Mole truffles– Add 1/4 tsp cinnamon and a dash of chili powder or cayenne to the ganache mix and a dash of each to the raw cacao powder when you roll them out.

Vanilla truffles– Add 1 tsp vanilla extract and a dash of ground vanilla beans to the ganache mix and a dash of ground vanilla beans to the raw cacao powder.

Ginger truffles– Add 1 Tbs finely chopped, crystalized ginger to the coconut milk before you heat it and a light dash of ground, dry ginger to the raw cacao powder to roll.

* To obtain coconut milk solids, place a can of full-fat coconut milk in the fridge overnight.  Open the top of the can and the white, solid cream is what you want to use for this recipe. The thin, almost clear liquid can be used in other recipes, like hot chocolate or smoothies.

This post is part of Make Your Own Monday, Your Recipe My Kitchen, Mangia Mondays, Melt In Your Mouth Monday, , Mouthwatering Monday, Fat Tuesday, Tempt My Tummy Tuesday, Tuesdays At the Table, Slightly Indulgent Tuesdays, Tuesday’s Tasty Tidbits, Show Me How Tuesday, Tip Me Tuesday, Meatless Mondays, Just Something I Whipped Up, Tasty Tuesday, Recipe Lion Dessert Blog Hop, Real Food Wednesday, Tuesday To Do, Real Food Wednesdays, Gluten Free Wednesdays, What’s Cooking Wednesdays, What’s Cooking Wednesdays, Weekly Recipe Swap, We Did It Wednesday, Show Off Your Stuff, Passionately Artistic, Cast Party, Your Whims Wednesday, Show and Tell, Show and Share.

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Filed Under: Casein-Free, Desserts, Egg-Free, Gluten-Free, Grain-Free, Holidays, Nut-Free, Recipes, Snacks, Soy-Free

I'm KerryAnn Foster, a crazy vibrant Jesus Freak with a heart full of hope. I'm not afraid to love on the least of these or get my hands dirty. This blog is my journey from ineffective, uptight, obese wallflower to a woman on fire for God and living the most vibrant, passionate life possible!

I live in the mountains of Western North Carolina with my husband, Jeff, and our two teens. I blog about self-confidence, health and home, homeschooling and living a vibrant, wide-open Jesus-centered lifestyle. I have over seventeen years of real food, natural lifestyle and health experience. We have homeschooled our children since birth and both Jeff and I run home-based businesses. We're crazy, we know it, and we love every second of it!

Read about my journey to health through celiac disease, PCOS, food allergies, obesity, adrenal fatigue and heavy metals.

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  1. Coreen says

    February 14, 2012 at 12:02 am

    Oh my, oh my, oh my. I am in chocolate heaven. ♥
    In Japan, girls give chocolates to boys on Valentine’s Day. I know, messed up, right? So I made these for my hubby today. What an amazing GAPS-legal treat. (I made my own honey-sweetened dark chocolate.)
    Thank you!! 😀

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  2. Melissa @ Love Bug Living says

    February 14, 2012 at 10:21 am

    Who wouldn’t love these! So yummy. I’m sure they’d be a great gift.

    Melissa
    http://www.lovebugliving.com
    Melissa @ Love Bug Living recently posted..Chrysanthemum Cab Earrings & Gift Pocket

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  3. Jill@RealFoodForager.com says

    February 14, 2012 at 7:46 pm

    Thanks for linking your great post to FAT TUESDAY. This was very interesting! Hope to see you next week!

    Be sure to visit RealFoodForager.com on Sunday for Sunday Snippets – your post from Fat Tuesday may be featured there!
    http://realfoodforager.com/fat-tuesday-february-14-2012/

    Reply
  4. Melanie says

    February 15, 2012 at 8:55 am

    Yumm!! Easy and decadent, this one is right up my alley! I think I just found a use for the coconut milk thats in my fridge.

    Reply
  5. Matt @ RecipeLion says

    February 15, 2012 at 11:26 am

    This dessert looks great! I would love it if you linked up this recipe to my blog hop for a chance to win a cookbook prize package: http://bit.ly/wJSl1h

    Reply
  6. Sonja @ practical-stewardship.com says

    February 15, 2012 at 5:11 pm

    Looks awesome! I’ve been looking at different truffle recipes. Thanks for sharing!
    Sonja @ practical-stewardship.com recently posted..No Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Reply
  7. daryl says

    February 16, 2012 at 11:48 am

    Made these awesome little treats. Love them.

    Reply

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