Skinny Chocolate Truffles

We brought you Skinny Chocolate, but now let’s kick it up a notch and indulge in the truffle form. Perfect for Valentine's Day treats!!! Guilt? What is that? These truffles make that word obsolete for chocolate lovers. The best thing about these truffles is that you can eat them with breakfast, as medicine for a healthier body, or with lunch or dinner just because you want to, or you can shove one in your mouth before a workout for some immediate middle-chain triglyceride energy. Here is the basic recipe. Creative ideas on how to dress them up are linked below. This recipe is a multiple-serve recipe. This recipe is found in the "Sweet Treats - Candies and Bars" section of the Trim Healthy Mama Cookbook, page 384. This recipe is a multiple-serve recipe.

Cooking Method: Blender

Courses: Dessert, Snacks

Servings: 1

Description

We brought you Skinny Chocolate but now let’s kick it up a notch and indulge in the truffle form. Perfect for Valentine's Day treats!!! Guilt? What is that? These truffles make that word obsolete for chocolate lovers. The best thing about these truffles is that you can eat them with breakfast, as medicine for a healthier body, or with lunch or dinner just because you want to, or you can shove one in your mouth before a workout for some immediate middle-chain triglyceride energy. Here is the basic recipe. Creative ideas on how to dress them up are linked below. This recipe is a multiple-serve recipe. This recipe is found in the "Sweet Treats - Candies and Bars" section of the Trim Healthy Mama Cookbook, page 384. This recipe is a multiple-serve recipe.

Ingredients

1 cup water (not quite boiling - see instructions p. 384)
2 1/4 tsp TH Just Gelatin (up to 2 1/2 tsp, as needed)
1 cup coconut oil (extra virgin)
6 Tbs unsweetened cocoa powder
1 Tbs TH Super Sweet Blend
2 tsp TH Gentle Sweet (2 to 3 tsp; optional for real sweet lovers)
2 tsp TH Natural Burst Vanilla Extract (or other extract of choice, see note below)
Skinny Chocolate Truffles Optional Coatings

Instructions

1
Place the hot water in a blender, add the gelatin, and blend for a few seconds to dissolve. Add the coconut oil and blend well; this should happen very easily as the warm water should liquefy the coconut oil. Stop the blender and add the remaining ingredients except the optional coatings, and blend until smooth. Taste and adjust the flavors to “own it.”
2
Pour the mixture into ice cube trays and freeze until solid. When frozen, turn one tray at a time upside down and twist to release the truffles. Place the desired amount that you wish to eat during the week into a zippy bag and put in the fridge. They are not ready to sample yet—don’t even try a weeny bit. Wait until they melt from their frozen state into a perfect fridge temperature. They will not taste like truffles until they reach that new, unfrozen refrigerated temp.

Note

Recipe Notes

CREATIVE IDEAS:

The hot water can be replaced with hot espresso, regular or decaf strong coffee, chai tea, oolong tea, fragrant jasmine tea, mint tea, and so on.
You can also drop in some internal-grade essential oils, natural extracts, and spices.

The extra nutritional and energy benefits, as well as weight loss-boosting effects, of these additions can catapult the truffles into a super-duper superfood category. Our personal favorite
truffle creations are made with jasmine green tea, or oolong tea/ginger tea, or ginger powder/mint, or essential orange oil, or natural raspberry extract—the list goes on and on.

OPTIONAL COATINGS: (optional; see Alternative Method on page 384)

Ground espresso beans
Finely chopped nuts
Unsweetened coconut flakes
TH Gentle Sweet or erythritol mixed with ground cinnamon or other yummy spices of your choice.

Read it online: https://trimhealthymama.com/recipe/skinny-chocolate-truffles/