Raspberry Chocolate Truffles

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Makes about a dozen truffles

Lovely textured truffle with deep pink colour and rich chocolate flavour. Not too sweet.

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup raspberries or seasonal berries
  • 1 cup mixed dates, prunes, raisins
  • 1/2 cup oats or ground nuts
  • squeeze lemon juice
  • 1/4 tsp mixed spice
  • little vanilla scraped from pod
  • 1 dessertspoon agave syrup or 1tsp honey
  • 2 dessertspoons cacao powder
  • 1 dessertspoon carob powder
  • pinch salt
  • carob powder for coating truffles

Preparation

Soak dates, raisins and dried prunes in warm water for a few minutes. Drain and add to food process with the rest of the ingredients. Process until you have a sticky mass. Take a spoonful of the mixture and drop into a tub with carob powder. Turn truffles using a spoon until coated with carob. Then, you can roll them gently into balls in your hand. Place truffles in freezer and enjoy when you have a craving for chocolate.

I’ve cut one of the truffles open in the photo so you can see the gorgeous colour.

Comments

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fuzzywater writes: (September 27, 2007)

Ooooh…. Yum!

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radish_man writes: (September 27, 2007)

Cool!

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Marichiesa writes: (September 27, 2007)

wow. i’m salivating.i’m also going to go out and buy raspberries right this minute.

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rawambitions writes: (September 27, 2007)

Sounds so yummy. I am also going to get rasberries and plan on making these for dessert tonight. Thanks

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aimeerachelle writes: (September 27, 2007)

did you use oat groats? Could you grind the oat groats before soaking?

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sweetpea writes: (September 29, 2007)

Hi aimeerachelle, I used freshly milled oatmeal but ideally I would use raw oats and grind them into a powder. If you have oat groats, just grind them into a flour. That is why I’ve given an alternative ie ground nuts/seeds if you can tolerate them.

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sweetpea writes: (September 29, 2007)

aimeerachelle, don’t soak oat groats to use in this recipe. You need a dry flour such as ground oats or seeds/nuts to bind the mixture.

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aimeerachelle writes: (October 02, 2007)

thanks for the answer, these look really good

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ilovesnowie writes: (November 21, 2007)

Delish! I got raspberries for 1/2 price and tried this with ground oat groats, third of each dates, raisins and GOJI berries. I didn’t add any spices. OMG, delish! Thanks for sharing this recipe! :-)

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zhanna8 writes: (December 04, 2007)

i make chocolate all the time – and love to try this one with raspberries and more fruit… sounds lovely ~THANK YOU!

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