Dark Chocolate Avocado Truffles

Healthier Chocolate Truffles with Avocado

The first dessert that comes to my mind when thinking about the Holidays are the rich, silky chocolate treats also known as truffles. I used to have these as a child when my mom used cream and milk chocolate to make them.

Embracing Healthier Alternatives

I still want to keep my tradition alive with my favorite dessert, but I wanted to skip the heaviness of the cream and the sugar from the chocolate. Who knew, chocolate truffles can be made healthier using avocado instead of heavy cream, and they are still the perfect bite of sweetness after a big holiday meal.

Avocado: The Surprising Substitute

While other truffle recipes use the fat from cream or butter to get the right consistency, I discovered avocado works just as well, and it is a much healthier alternative. Don’t worry if you don’t like the flavor of avocado; you won’t even taste it in the finished product.

The Magic of Dark Chocolate and Avocado

The quality gluten-free dark chocolate masks any avocado flavor but the avocado adds a smooth richness to the truffles that you don’t get with any other cream or butter. Sure, avocados still have fat and calories but the fats in avocado are healthier than in oil, cream, or butter.

Creating the Perfect Truffles

This recipe came about as an experiment, in my wish to satisfy my love for chocolate during the holiday season but also have a healthier version of my all-time favorite chocolate truffles. And it’s just miraculous how just one avocado can make the whole mixture firm up just like ganache.

Simple Steps to Delicious Truffles

Making them is as easy as it gets. You just melt the chocolate together with a little salt and vanilla or any other flavor you’d like and then add the mashed avocado to the mix. Mix well until you no longer see the green from the avocado. After your mixture is rested and cooled you can start rolling your delicious little truffles and play around.

Customize Your Chocolate Truffles

I like mixing things up sometimes, and there is so much you can do with the outside of the truffles. You can roll them in cocoa powder, nuts, powdered sugar, sprinkles or any other topping you love. Most of the time I like to use dark cocoa powder, but sometimes I just leave them as they are without any extra topping.