Easy Chocolate Prune Truffles Gluten Free Paleo Food

CHOCOLATE PRUNE TRUFFLES

Steps:

• 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

CHOCOLATE PRUNE TRUFFLES

Steps:

• 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.

EASY CHOCOLATE PRUNE TRUFFLES (GLUTEN FREE, PALEO)

Steps:

• Place prunes in a food processor or high speed blender and pulse until smooth. If your prunes are hard, you may need to soak them for 1-2 hours in water and heat them just a bit until soft.
• In a double boiler melt the cacao paste.
• Add the cacao paste and vanilla extract to the prunes and pulse to combine ingredients.
• Roll the mixture into 1" balls then chill in the freezer for about 10 minutes.
• To make the chocolate shell, melt the cacao butter and chocolate chips in a double boiler until smooth.
• Remore truffles from the freezer and dip each one, one at the time in the melted chocolate and place them in a pan lined with parchment paper.
• Place truffles in the fridge for just 10 minutes so the chocolate hardens and then store at room temperature.