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Dark Chocolate Orange Truffles (Paleo, Vegan)

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  • Author: Katie
  • Prep Time: 30 minutes
  • Cook Time: 0 minutes
  • Total Time: 30 minutes

Description

Healthy truffles with a rich chocolate and orange filling that's coated in a dark chocolate shell.  This recipe is paleo, vegan and low carb.


Ingredients

Scale

Filling

  • 3 oz dark chocolate (about 1/2 cupI recommend 70-85% dark
  • 1/2 cup coconut cream*
  • 2 Tbsp palm shortening (or butter)
  • 1/2 Tbsp orange zest (zest from about 1 orange)
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/8 tsp salt

Coating

  • 3 oz dark chocolate (about 1/2 cup)
  • 1 tsp coconut oil


Instructions

  1. Combine all filling ingredients in a small saucepan and melt over low heat. 
  2. Once the chocolate has fully melted and everything is combined, place the filling in the fridge.  Chill overnight, or for at lease 4 hours.
  3. Using a small cookie scoop (about 1 Tablespoon in size), scoop the filling into little mounds and set them on a parchment-lined baking sheet or plate.  You can roll the filling into balls if you want, but it gets messy.  I just left mine as-is.
  4. Place the fillings in the freezer and freeze for at least 2 hours.
  5. Once the filling have frozen, melt the dark chocolate and coconut oil.
  6. Grab the fillings from the freezer and dip them, one at a time, into the melted chocolate.  Place them back on the lined baking sheet/plate to set.
  7. Optional: you can drizzle any leftover chocolate onto the balls and then top them with more orange zest and cinnamon for decoration.

Notes

*You'll use just the thick white cream from a can of full fat coconut milk/cream.  If you open a can and the cream has not separated from the milk, then place the can in your refrigerator overnight.