Vegan Chocolate Truffles

These Vegan Chocolate Truffles are the most delicious treat - they're melt-in-your-mouth silky, rich, creamy, velvety and perfectly sweet. They're easy to make, and are gluten-free, refined sugar free and paleo-friendly too. They make excellent edible gifts for Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Easter, Christmas, and everything in between!

As much as I love dark chocolate, the one thing I have missed a lot since going dairy-free has been sweet, creamy, melt-in-your-mouth milk chocolate truffles.

I wasn't particularly keen on using coconut cream to make truffles, as I was worried the coconut taste might overpower the chocolate, so I decided to use blended cashews as their neutral flavour makes them the perfect base.

How to make this recipe

Scroll down to the bottom of the post for the full recipe.

• Soak the cashews in cold water overnight or in boiling water for 15 minutes.
• Add to a food processor along with all the other ingredients.

Tip: You can get hold of cacao butter online, in local health food stores or large supermarkets.

• Whizz until completely smooth.
• Taste and adjust flavour accordingly.

• Put the mixture (keeping it in the food processor but you can transfer to a bowl if you wish) into the fridge and leave for 2 hours to harden – the mixture should be hard enough to easily shape into balls.

• Sprinkle cocoa powder onto a plate.
• Use two teaspoons to make teaspoon-sized balls of the mixture, then use your hands to roll the mixture in the cocoa powder.

• Repeat for the rest of the mixture.

How long do these keep for?

These Chocolate Truffles keep in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days.

More vegan chocolate treats

• Healthy Snickers Ice Cream Bites
• Matcha Chocolate Truffles
• Hazelnut Chocolate Truffles
• Strawberry Chocolate Truffles
• Snickers Bars
• Twix Bars

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Watch how to make it

Vegan Chocolate Truffles

These Vegan Chocolate Truffles are the most delicious treat - they're melt-in-your-mouth silky, super creamy, perfectly sweet and most importantly, undetectably dairy-free.

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American, European

Keyword: cashew chocolate truffles, paleo chocolate, refined sugar free chocolate truffles, vegan chocolate truffles

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 15 minutes

Servings: 16 truffles

Calories: 63kcal

Author: Rhian Williams

Ingredients

• ▢ 120 g (1 cup) raw cashew nuts soaked in cold water overnight or in boiling water for 15 minutes
• ▢ 20 g (0.7 oz) cacao butter
• ▢ 2 heaped teaspoons cocoa powder
• ▢ 3 tablespoons maple syrup to taste (or sub any other sweetener)
• ▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ▢ Salt to taste
• ▢ 2 teaspoons cocoa powder for dusting

Instructions

• Drain soaked cashews and add to a food processor along with all the other ingredients*.
• Whizz until completely smooth.
• Taste and adjust flavour accordingly.
• Put the mixture (keeping it in the food processor but you can transfer to a bowl if you wish) into the fridge and leave for 2 hours to harden – the mixture should be hard enough to easily shape into balls.
• Sprinkle cocoa powder onto a plate.
• Use two teaspoons to make teaspoon-sized balls of the mixture, then use your hands to roll the mixture in the cocoa powder.
• Repeat for the rest of the mixture.
• Keep truffles in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days.

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Notes

*If your food processor isn’t very powerful, it may have trouble with the cacao butter. In this case, melt the cacao butter first using a bain-marie before adding to the food processor.

Nutrition Facts

Vegan Chocolate Truffles

Amount Per Serving

Calories 63 Calories from Fat 36

% Daily Value*

Fat 4g6%

Saturated Fat 1g5%

Sodium 1mg0%

Potassium 57mg2%

Carbohydrates 4g1%

Sugar 2g2%

Protein 1g2%

Calcium 7mg1%

Iron 0.5mg3%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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