Chocolate Truffles
These delicious morsels are so easy to make, nutritious and very chocolate truffle-like even though they are basically made with dried fruits and nuts. They also happen to be vegan, gluten free and dairy free.
A sweet 'fix' without the sugar or butter!
Best of all there is NO cooking involved at all!
They work out to 60kcal/1 WeightWatcher propoint (pp) each or 3pp for two.
YOU WILL NEED: (Recipe makes approx.16)
50g cashew nuts
50g raisins
100g dried dates
1 tablespoon Choc Shot
50g cashew nuts
50g raisins
100g dried dates
1 tablespoon Choc Shot
(I used the Orange Spice flavour, you could try original chocolate or coconut
It's a vegan/gluten free liquid chocolate syrup sold in most supermarkets with the hot chocolates)
20g cocoa powder/pollenta/rice flour/fine biscuit crumbs for coating
optional;
dried rose petals to decorate
Simply combine the cashew nuts, raisins and dates in a food processor. Blitz until finely chopped. The mixture will be quite grainy until you add the Choc Shot. This is the magic ingredient that will combine it into a paste-like consistency and give the 'truffles' a rich chocolate flavour.
Blitz for a few seconds to bring the mixture together.
Using a half-tablespoon, roll each measure into a ball. The mixture is quite sticky. Roll in the coating of your choice. I tried pollenta but I prefer cocoa as they look like authentic truffles coated in this fine chocolatey dusting. The mixture should make around 16 'truffles' if you measure accurately.
Pop onto a plate and chill if possible for a couple of hours to harden them up a little. Pop into miniature petit four cases. You can decorate with a few dried rose petals, chopped nuts or just leave plain and simple.
