DIY Vegan Chocolate Truffles

I’ve always been fascinated by truffles, especially those with a rich, smooth, chocolaty, velvet taste. But by me being vegan, it was always so heartbreaking to see people every valentine’s day eating that nice delicious delicacy and me being like most other vegans, unable to enjoy some nice chocolates. Vegan chocolates are becoming more accessible, but sometimes, they’re not always readily available where you live. Also and to be completely honest this truffle recipe was actually a fluke in on its own.

A fluke how?

So now you’re probably wondering how could a truffle recipe turn into a fluke, right? Well long story short, I wasn’t actually planning on making truffles. Originally it was just me playing around in an attempt to create a few chocolate bars, which ended up failing. Apparently you can’t just use coconut oil, you need cocoa butter for the bar to hold its shape and to stay firm at room temperature, without loosing it’s shape.

But if chocolate needs coco butter to hold its shape, wouldn’t the truffles also need coco butter?

Honestly, that is a good question and you’d think that the truffles would loose their shape, and start melting everywhere, but surprisingly they hold their shape pretty well. Maybe because of the sugar coating around the truffle, but either way, since they are already oddly shaped, they don’t really need to be as perfectly shaped like a chocolate bar. The coconut oil in this recipe is just enough to provide enough oil to bind the ingredients together and also help them to form a consistent shape.

So how exactly did you come up with the idea to create truffles?

So like I mentioned earlier, since the bars were unfortunately not holding their shape, in an attempt to save the product and reduce my food waste, it somehow occurred to me to take the mixture and roll them up into little balls. Which solved one of my chocolate problems. The next was figuring out how to make them not leave chocolate everywhere. Since by me rolling them into a ball shape, ended up leaving my hands a chocolaty mess, which I didn’t want them to end up transitioning to the container that I was storing them in. So I decided that the best logical course of action would be to coat them when powdered sugar. And low and behold this recipe was born.

So can we get the recipe now?

Yes, 100%! See below for the recipe. If you give them a try, please leave a comment down below and tell me how they turned out.