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    Home / Food & Drink / Recipes / Christmas Recipes / Healthy Christmas truffles recipe

    Healthy Christmas truffles recipe

    Great tasting and less calories

    If you know someone who loves Ferrero Rocher chocolates, why not make them a healthy homemade version as an indulgent treat?

    If you want to make extra special truffles, you can tweak the recipe below and make a truffle bauble. You just need to roll the mixture into one ball instead of several, add some gold thread and place in an attractive presentation box.

    Alternatively, you could have a go at making your own truffle robin by rolling a large ball for the body and a medium ball for the head, putting them together using a couple of cocktail sticks. You can easily make the eyes, beak and red breast from sugar paste icing in just a couple of minutes.

     Ingredients

    • 200g dried dates
    • 170g skinless hazelnuts
    • 35g cocoa powder
    • ½ tsp vanilla extract
    • 200g coconut oil
    • 1 tbsp maple syrup

    Method

    Step 1
    Preheat the oven to 160˚C and soak the dates in warm water for five mins.

    Step 2
    Place the hazelnuts on a baking tray and bake for 10 mins. Remove from the oven and leave to cool. Finely chop them in a food processor before measuring out 55g and setting them aside.

    Step 3
    Add the dates, 2 tsp of cocoa powder and vanilla extract to the remaining hazelnuts and blend well. Roll into Ferrero Rocher sized balls and put in the fridge to chill.

    Step 4
    To make the coating, mix the remaining cocoa powder, maple syrup and coconut oil together.

    Step 5
    Take the balls out of the fridge and roll in the coating until completely covered. Place on a plate and sprinkle over the hazelnuts you kept to one side. Place back in the fridge to harden. Enjoy!

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