MEMBER RECIPE
Chocolate Prune Truffles Recipe
By elanaspantry
Difficulty: Easy |
Total Time:
2 hours 30 minutes
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Active Time:
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Makes:
15 Truffles
Along with their rich chocolate-prune flavor, these vegan truffles are packed with healthy antioxidants and quite nutritionally dense.
INGREDIENTS
- 1 cup prunes, pitted
- 3/4 cup tart cherry juice
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup dark chocolate 73%, melted over very low heat
- 3/4 cup shredded coconut (unsweetened)
INSTRUCTIONS
- Place prunes in a bowl and cover with cherry juice
- Soak for 1-2 hours
- If your prunes are hard, not juicy, you may need to heat them just a bit in the cherry juice until soft
- Place prunes and juice in food processor and pulse until smooth, about 30 seconds
- Pulse in vanilla, then melted chocolate
- Scrape mixture into a bowl and place in freezer for 30-45 minutes, until almost smooth
- Remove from freezer, and roll into 1″ balls in palm of hand
- Roll in coconut to coat
- Serve
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