Cacao Truffles
“This is an incredibly easy recipe that can be adapted to whichever flavours you like to add to chocolate truffles. Use pretty moulds or ice cube trays to make them into interesting shapes. ”
Prep time - 10 minutes
Cook time - 0 minutes
Difficulty - Easy
Serves / makes - 6-10 truffles
100g / 1 cup ground almond
2T ground cacao
2-3T rice/date/carob syrup
This is the base recipe, simply mix these ingredients together and roll into balls or put into a silicone ice cube tray and chill for 30 minutes.
You can change up this recipe in so many ways, here are some ideas....
Substitute some, or all, of the ground almond for....
Toasted and ground hazelnut
Porridge oats
Quinoa flakes (not to be confused with the round quinoa seed)
Any other ground nut
Always make up the mass of ground almond you have taken out with the substitution/s.....so if you remove 1/2 a cup of ground almond and you want to replace it with ground hazelnut use 1/2 a cup of ground hazelnut.
Substitute some of the cacao for...
Ground spices - cinnamon, ginger, allspice, nutmeg
Superfood powders - moringa, baobab, lucuma, maca, beetroot powder
Add texture....
Desiccated coconut
Seeds
Freeze dried raspberry pieces
Cacao nibs
You can dust the balls in ground cacao or ground nuts or desiccated coconut.
As you can see this is a recipe that you can change to your tastes or just to try something different. Many recipes are like this.....there is a base formula which you can freestyle on. Look out for this in new recipes you find and try out your creativity...this is a great way to break free from recipes and to speed up your cooking.
