Vegan Planet: Here's My Heart Chocolate Cherry Truffles

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Here's My Heart Chocolate Cherry Truffles

If you have a small heart-shaped cookie cutter, you can transform your favorite truffle recipe into a special Valentine treat. To make these, I adapted the Chocolate Cherry Truffle recipe from Quick-Fix Vegetarian to include bits of toasted almond and some cherry preserves. The truffles on each end in the photo are uncoated; the one in the center is coated with finely shredded unsweetened coconut. I've included my recipe adaptation below, with instructions for making both heart-shaped and round truffles. The recipe is very flexible -- as are most truffle recipes -- use more or less of any of the ingredients to get the texture and flavor you prefer.

I plan to post a couple more Valentine's Day ideas between now and Tuesday, but in the meantime, check out my heart-shaped Red Quinoa Loaf on One Green Planet -- (you can also see it on the Huffington Post). And if you're in a location where watermelon is available, you can make some watermelon hearts with sweet mint pesto from a previous post.

Here's My Heart Chocolate Cherry Truffles

1/2 cup dried cherries

1/4 cup toasted sliced almonds

2 tablespoons cherry preserves

1 tablespoon almond butter

1/2 cup high-quality unsweetened cocoa

1 cup confectioners’ sugar

Coating of choice: cocoa, crushed toasted almonds, toasted coconut, or melted vegan chocolate

Combine the cherries and almonds in a food processor and process until finely chopped. Add the cherry preserves and almond butter and process until smooth. Add the cocoa and confectioners’ sugar and process until well combined.

For heart-shaped truffles: Transfer the mixture to a sheet of waxed paper, film wrap, or parchment on a flat work surface and flatten evenly to about 1/2-inch thick. Top with another sheet of waxed paper, film wrap, or parchment and use a rolling pin to flatten evenly to about 1/3 inch thick. Remove the top paper and refrigerate or freeze until firm.

Use a small heart-shaped cookie cutter to cut the truffle mixture into heart shapes and arrange on a plate. Refrigerate to firm up again, if needed. Roll the remaining scraps from the cut-outs into balls (for a few round truffles) and refrigerate.

For round truffles: Shape a small amount of the mixture into a ball, rolling with your hands into a 1-inch ball. Repeat until the mixture is used up.

To coat truffles: Place the truffles on a shallow plate containing cocoa, coconut, almonds, or melted chocolate. Roll the truffles in the coating to cover completely. Transfer to a plate and refrigerate until firm.

Labels: choclate cherry truffles, Quick-Fix Vegetarian, Valentine's Day

# posted by Robin at Vegan Planet @ 9:27 AM

Comments:

These are so cute and simple to make! I love recipes that can be made in under 10 minutes.

# posted by

Vegan : February 11, 2012 at 10:53 AM

You are endlessly creative! I had already decided to make the Pina Colada Truffles for my family on Valentine's Day, but these might have to be made as well! Thanks for sharing your great ideas.

# posted by

Eve : February 11, 2012 at 11:39 PM

Made these tonight and they were amazing! Even got the stamp of approval from my picky 3 year old. Thanks for the recipie and the great blog!

# posted by

Megan : February 14, 2012 at 10:06 PM

So glad you all like these. They're so much fun!

And Megan, very cool that your 3 y/o liked them too!

# posted by

Robin at Vegan Planet : February 15, 2012 at 2:18 PM

these look fantastic!
Great blog btw :)
awesome pics as well
Laura
My blog- genesis129 farm animal sanctuary

# posted by

laura : February 24, 2012 at 6:11 AM

This Page

Vegan Planet

Saturday, February 11, 2012

Here's My Heart Chocolate Cherry Truffles

About Me

Links

Archives