These healthy chocolate truffles are the perfect post-dinner dessert or protein-packed snack for whenever that sweet craving hits! They’re rich, fudgy, chocolatey, and taste exactly like a chocolate truffle, but with better-for-you ingredients.
Btw, I originally developed this recipe for Valentine’s Day, but these healthy dark chocolate almond truffles work as a quick sweet snack or for whenever you want something sweet.
Ingredients You’ll Need For These Chocolate Truffles
Here’s everything you’ll need to make these healthy chocolate truffles. As always, the full recipe is in the recipe card at the bottom of the blog post. But I like listing the ingredients here with substitutions, brand recommendations, etc.
- Almond butter or any type of runny nut or seed butter: Tahini would work well in these.
- Honey or maple syrup
- Cashew milk or any plant milk of choice
- Oat flour: You can make your own oat flour in a high-powered blender or spice grinder. Or you can be lazy like me and just buy it.
- Good quality unsweetened Dutch cocoa powder
- Chocolate protein powder: Highly recommend Ka’Chava protein powder. All of their protein powders use wonderful ingredients, plus there are no additives, emulsifiers, or added sugar.
- Refined sugar-free chocolate or chocolate chips.
- Freeze-dried strawberries: This is optional, as it’s just for garnish. But it makes these chocolate truffles look extra cute!
A Few Notes
- You can easily make these truffles without any protein powder. Simply swap in equal amounts of cocoa powder, about 1/4 cup in total.
- If your chocolate is too thick, most recipes advise adding 1 tsp of coconut oil to melted chocolate to make it easier to work with. I have never needed to add coconut oil, but if your chocolate is too thick you can add between 1-2 tsp of coconut oil.
- If you wanted to make these more on theme with Valentine’s Day, you could shape them into hearts instead of balls. You could either shape them by hand or roll out the truffle mixture into a thick layer, and use a heart-shaped cookie cutter to cut out the truffles.
Even More Easy Chocoholic Desserts
- Vegan Single-Serve Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Vegan Small-Batch Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Healthy Chocolate Rice Krispie Treats
- Easy Chocolate Date Bark
Happy baking my friends!
Yasmeen
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Healthy Chocolate Truffles
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Chill Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 16 truffles 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
Description
These healthy chocolate truffles are the perfect post-dinner dessert or protein-packed snack for whenever that sweet craving hits! They’re rich, fudgy, chocolatey, and taste exactly like a chocolate truffle, but with better-for-you ingredients.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup almond butter
- 1/2 cup honey or maple syrup
- 1 tbsp cashew milk or plant milk of choice
- 1 tsp vanilla paste or extract
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 1 cup oat flour
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1/4 cup (2 scoops) Ka’Chava chocolate protein
- 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
Instructions
- Begin by lining a sheet pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, pour in the almond butter, honey or maple syrup, cashew milk, vanilla extract, and kosher salt. Whisk well to combine. Finally, add in the oat flour, cocoa powder, and Ka’Chava chocolate protein. Mix the dough using a flexible rubber spatula until combined. You can use your hands as well if it’s too tough to mix with the spatula.
- Scoop the dough out using a small cookie scoop, about 1.5 tbsp, and use your hands to roll the dough into a ball. Place the truffles on the prepared baking sheet and repeat with the rest of the dough.
- Melt the chocolate in a double boiler or microwave until smooth and silky. If it seems too thick, you can add 1 tsp of coconut oil to help it along. Dip one of the truffles into the melted chocolate using two forks, and tap the excess chocolate on the side of the bowl before transferring it back to the baking sheet. Repeat with all the truffles.
- Let the truffles chill in the fridge for 30 minutes until set. You could drizzle the remaining chocolate on top in a zigzag pattern to give it more “decorated” look. Just be sure to chill the truffles again for 5-10 minutes to let the chocolate set. Garnish with crumbled freeze-dried strawberries and flaky salt for garnish.
- These truffles keep well in the fridge for up to 5 days in an airtight glass container.
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