Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Vegan White Chocolate Orange Almond Truffles



So this is where too much Vegan Blog hopping gets me!

A while ago, I came across these super yum looking White Chocolate Walnut Truffles on the VegSpinz blog and I was immediately overcome by the desire to stuff my face with them!

So I decided to create a variation of my own...

White Chocolate Orange Almond Truffles


All ingredients are in approximate values since I just throw stuff in without measuring. Feel free to modify the amounts to your liking.


1 C Vegan White Chocolate Chips
1/2 C Cashews
1/4 C Soymilk (use as required)
1/4 t Orange Essential Oil
1/4 C Almonds
1 C Vegan Dark Chocolate Chips

For the truffle mixture:

-Grind the cashews into a fine powder, add a dash of the soymilk and blend, add a little bit more soymilk if required and process into a very creamy paste.
-Melt the white chocolate chips (in a double boiler or in the microwave).
-Toast the almonds and crush them lightly into tiny pieces. If you have the patience you can chop them :oP
-Mix the cashew cream and orange essential oil with the white chocolate.
-Add in the almonds and mix well.
-Pop in the freezer for around 20 minutes or so, until it has hardened slightly.

How to proceed:

-Melt the dark chocolate chips.
-Make little balls of the truffle mixture and dip them in the melted chocolate.
-Drop them on parchment paper.
-Pop in the freezer to set again.


Note: I have used truffle molds for these. These can be used by coating the walls and bottom of the mold with the melted dark chocolate. Putting a bit of the truffle mixture in and covering the top with a layer of melted dark chocolate.

Enjoy! :)

8 comments:

Sweet V Confections said...

Oh..wow! Those look and sound amazing!!!

bäumig said...

wow I can't resist....help!! :)
looks delicious

Cassie - Vegan Fox said...

These look delicious!

Embee Breedlove said...

OMG so freaking amazing! If I made these I would put myself in a sugar coma. Wow!!!

Anonymous said...

oooh, looks so yummy!

Veganosaurus said...

hahah make them and taste them ladies. it'll totally be worth the "sugar coma", as Melissa puts it. :D

Unknown said...

Holy mother of all things sweet and divine!....


*making shopping list...

Leslie said...

mmm...these look so good!