This delicious, healthy and somewhat sophisticated treat is not too sweet, making a great candy for adult palates. It may appeal to the younger crowd as well –my 10 year old ate a dozen of these and then packed more in his school lunch.
Along with their rich chocolate-prune flavor, these vegan truffles are packed with healthy antioxidants and quite nutritionally dense.
Chocolate Prune Truffles
Ingredients
- 1 cup prunes, pitted
- ¾ cup tart cherry juice
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup chocolate chips, melted over very low heat
- ¾ cup unsweetened shredded coconut
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
Equipment
These tasty little truffles are based on a recipe called Prune Armagnac Truffles in Baking with Agave Nectar
, by Ania Catalano. Her recipe has heavy cream and liqueur and looks absolutely divine.
I made these truffles liquor free (for the boys) and dairy free (for me) and swapped out a few other ingredients as well to create this vegan version. I hope you enjoy this little treat as much as my family has!
Rachel says
I think you’re right. I may have used too much juice to cover the plums. I will try more chocolate the next time I make it. What I ended up doing was adding a little agave and some almond flour and making cookies out of them. They weren’t bad, just a little too soft.
elana says
Rachel -Can you let me know exactly what ingredients you used? You could try adding a little more chocolate or next time you make it, don’t use as much cherry juice. Let me know how it goes!
Rachel says
Please help! I just tried to make these truffles and followed your directions but used dried plums instead of prunes ’cause that’s what I had on hand. However, when I took the chocolate mixture out of the freezer and tried to roll it in my palms it was just a sticky mess. I put it back in the freezer for a while but it’s still not working. I put a little spray oil on a spoon and tried to spoon it out and roll in the coconut that way. But it’s just too soft and won’t hold its shape.
My question is, any suggestions on how I can use this glob of delicious chocolate in another recipe?
elana says
Denice,
Thanks so much for being in touch and good luck with your conference!
Elana
Denice says
My name is Denice Stout, director of Autism Ability Advocates, Inc. Below is a workshop I am putting on about Biomedical Interventions. We are looking for Gluten free chocolates that the parents can sample prior to the beginning of the workshop. We are happy to include the literature about your company into our packets for each participant. We expect about 40 to be in attendance. I hope you can help with our gfcf sampling we’ll be doing prior to the workshop. By receiving donations from companies like yours we keep the workshop registration fees from $10 to free. This way we reach the most critical in need. These workshops costs hundreds to put on, so I do look forward to your response! And hopefully, you will obtain some new customers. I expect you will as we will be discussing the importance of removing gluten from the diets of individuals with autism spectrum disorder during this workshop. However, most parents think they have to deprive their children of certain treats. That’s why it’s so important that we also provide them with resources to obtain these gfcf foods. My own son diagnosed with severe autism has been on the gfcf diet for years and I know how helpful removing gluten and milk from his diet has been. Many inappropriate behaviors go away just by putting our children on this special diet alone!
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elana says
courtney,
I’ve made them a few days ahead and they kept quite well. I can’t recall though if I stored them out (uncovered on the counter) or in the fridge (wrapped up to prevent drying).
Good luck and have a great New Year!
Elana
courtney says
This recipe looks amazing!
I am planning on making these for New Year’s Eve How and was wondering far ahead can I make them?
elana says
Dear Rachel,
All you need to do to get information regarding an item on my site is click the word you are interested in (the ones that have links are in bold lettering) and you will be taken directly to the product.
Let me know if this helps, if it doesn’t leave another comment.
Thanks,
Elana
Rachel B says
Question about your 73% chocolate – is it a candy bar? Is it sweetened with sugar? I’m always on the lookout for dark chocolate that is not sweetened with sugar.
Also, with the chocolate chips you use, all I can find are those sweetened with sugar or grain sweetened which isn’t GF. Curious about which ones you use.
And have you ever heard of or used Xylitol? I just heard about it today and was wondering if you knew about it.
elana says
veggiebelly -Thanks!
Karen -Thanks so much for your kind words and for sharing your delicious recipe with all of us.
hanne -You are welcome!