Double Chocolate Truffles with Cocoa
Create a Healthy, Indulgent Dessert with Double Chocolate Truffles
Holiday baking is a big deal at our house, a time when chocolates, cookies, and Christmas Stollen are penciled into the calendar just like parties. As much as I love our tradition of baking and candy making, it isn’t without a fair amount of compromise to our food philosophy of avoiding refined flour and sugar.
Double Chocolate Truffles satisfy the chocolate lovers in our house (which is everyone). Adding coconut oil
Just don’t rush, truffles are meant to be savored.
I had this debate with my brother-in-law about eating truffles when I saw him chewing, yes, chewing one Lindt chocolate truffle
If you roll them in nuts or toffee you may be tempted to chew, but do try to resist, lingering as long as possible in velvety chocolate bliss. Bite if you must, but allow the silkiness to cascade over your tongue in gentle chocolate waves as much as you can.
Double Chocolate Truffles with Crushed Peanuts, Pistachios, & Almond-Toffee
Chocolate truffle recipes vary little from source to source; this recipe is adapted from The Nourishing Gourmet. There are only a handful of ingredients with a few basic instructions, so quality is key. Buy the finest chocolate you can afford—after all, it is the main attraction. Add flavored liqueurs or any number of coatings, mix milk or dark chocolate as you wish, it’s so easy to customize.
Naturally gluten-free, this recipe can also be made dairy-free (see recipe notes), making it easy to share custom homemade gifts.
Chocolate Buying Info:
Selecting the Best Chocolate for Your Recipe at Gourmet Candy Maker.com is a helpful primer on chocolate. Chocosphere and Chocoley are good online sources offering various brands of fine chocolate.
Try one of these coatings to complement the chocolate and create a festive tray for your next party.
unsweetened cocoa powder
chopped hazelnuts
chopped peanuts
chopped pistachios
chopped almonds
coconut flakes
crushed peppermint
crushed pretzels
toffee bits
white chocolate (freeze truffles before dipping)
milk chocolate (freeze truffles before dipping)
Double Chocolate Truffles
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/3 cup coconut oil
- 1 cup bittersweet chocolate , about 5.5 oz chopped or in chips
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate , about 5.5 oz chopped or in chips
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Any favorite coating
Instructions
- Mix heavy cream and coconut oil in a small pot over med-low heat and bring to a strong simmer. Remove from heat and add the vanilla and chocolates.
- Stir until chocolate is melted and smooth.
- Pour into a bowl and refrigerate for for at least two hours, or until mixture is firm to the touch.
- Prepare desired coatings and place in separate bowls. Once the chocolate is hardened, use a melon baller or a small cookie scoop to create balls of chocolate (bite-size is best). Roll each ball in your hands to round and smooth, but don't worry about trying to make them perfectly round.
- Roll each truffle ball in desired coating, pressing lightly to help adhere, and arrange in an air tight container to store in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
- Allow to sit at room temperature for 5-10 minutes before serving for a silkier texture.
Notes
Nutrition
Double Chocolate Truffles with Coconut Flakes
More chocolate dessert recipes you’ll love:
Date-Fudge Truffles with Sea Salt
Cheesecake Strawberries with Chocolate Accents Recipe
Chocolate Peanut Butter Chunk Ice Cream
Ghirardelli Grand Fudge Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
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Darla says
Chocolate delivery system to the max! Love these.
thedrivencook says
These look delicious!
Karen (Back Road Journal) says
Beautiful looking truffles. I have recently made truffles as well. I do have to buy coconut oil…so many people are using it now. Have a great New Year.
Jed Gray (sportsglutton) says
Everything about that platter of truffles says yes to me. So jealous that we can’t make such delicious things this year as all our belongs are over by you in Colorado. Oh well, next year!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year’s to you and yours Judy!!
Linda says
Pure indulgence! Love the use of cocnut oil. I agree the holidays due cause a bit of falling off the clean eating, but I wouldn’t pass up a bit of holiday sweets! I have to try these out before the year ends! Happy holidays!
Barbara Bamber | justasmidgen says
Oh, my gosh.. cascading silkiness? I’m loving the sound of these truffles. I agree, the best ingredients, but you’ve made them healthy for us now, thank you!! xx
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I love chocolate truffles! My wife makes them occasionally, and they’re so delish. Amazing that something so tasty is also pretty easy to make. Have a great break – we’ll all be waiting here for you when you return.
Raymund says
This is so festive, I love truffles but my daughter would love them more specially now she is experimenting in making different flavours. She would do like this post
ChgoJohn says
These look wonderful, Judy. You just cannot have enough chocolate over the holidays and these are a real good way to test that philosophy. 🙂
Wishing you and yours a very merry Christmas and wonderful 2013.
Brenda says
Judy, my son and I will be making these either today or tomorrow for gifts for his teachers. Thank you for the inspiration, I had bought them pretty monogrammed bags but was feeling uninspired about what to put in them to complete the gift!
I enjoyed the story about your brother in law. In my family we have a perennial disagreement about whether it is OK to put a spoonful of icecream in your mouth and then withdraw it with some ice cream still on it. I always insist that the spoon com out clean!