With Valentines Day right around the corner, these Easy Chocolate Truffles are a must make for your to-do list! Everyone is a chocolate lover at heart so these are the perfect dessert to surprise your sweetheart and indulge in guilt-free. They are quick and easy to make ahead of time and rich enough you’ll only need one or two to truly satisfy your sweet tooth cravings!
How To Make Homemade Truffles
We’ve made low carb truffles before, but they pale in comparison to these. This recipe was the result of Matt’s desire to make something over the top for Valentines Day this year because we have a tradition to cook a meal together and then have a dessert we can enjoy and feel good about afterwards. After I taste tested these truffles I fell in love with Matthew all over again and can’t wait to make these year after year!
The Best Chocolate Recipes!
Chocolate is a girls, guys and child’s best friend so naturally we have some amazing low carb, keto friendly chocolate recipes that are guaranteed to impress everyone alike! We’d highly recommend starting with this truffle recipe, but then quickly moving on to our keto chocolate bar recipe, next to our low carb chocolate donuts, and then finally our homemade, chocolate almond butter! And, that only scratches the surface. We don’t like to toot our own horns, but we have some of the best chocolate recipes you are going to find suited for a ketogenic diet!
Easy Chocolate Truffles
Five ingredients for your new favorite dessert recipe is a great bargain. You can even get a little wild and add in some finely chopped up nuts or berries to make them even more indulgent! With most of our recipes, just like this one, we like to give you a perfect base recipe so that you can tailor it to your and your family’s preferred taste. This easy chocolate truffles recipe is going to be a huge hit on Valentines Day and any other day you choose to make them!
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Easy Chocolate Truffles
Ingredients:
- 4 oz Unsweetened Bakers Chocolate
- 1 cup Heavy Whipping Cream
- 1/4 cup Low Carb Sugar Substitute
- 20 drops Liquid Stevia
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder (for rolling - all will not be used)
Instructions:
- Finely chop up the entire 4oz bar of bakers chocolate and set aside.
- Heat a medium, bottom heavy skillet to medium heat and add the heavy whipping cream. Bring to a light boil and then remove from heat. Allow to cool for 1 minute.
- Add in the powdered erythritol, stevia and chopped up chocolate. Give it a light stir and then using an immersion blender, mix together the mixture until fully combined, uniform and you get a thick chocolate consistency.
- Pour combined mixture into a loaf pan and place in fridge for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
- Pour some cocoa powder out on to a plate for rolling the truffles.
- Remove the mixture from the fridge and using a 1 inch cookie scooper, scoop out 12 truffles. After you scoop each truffle out drop into the cocoa powder and roll to cover the entire surface and then place onto a separate plate. Repeat until all truffles are complete.
- Store in the fridge to re-harden prior to serving. Will keep for up to 5 days if stored in a sealed container. Enjoy!
Notes
Written by
Megha Barot
Megha has always been a passionate cook, but she took this to a new level after starting her keo journey in 2015. She loves creating new recipes and producing educational content for KetoConnect, which she co-founded in 2016 with Matt. Her passion for healthy eating and personal development continues to thrive. She's the proud mom of two awesome kids.
Hi, i was wondering if there is a dairy free alternative to this? perhaps coconut milk?
Coconut milk may be a good option for dairy free, however, it would definitely be a good idea to test it out! The chocolate and coconut milk may not come together similarly, but it could still be really good!
These are legit.
Even my incredibly picky 3.5 year old – who can pretty much always detect (and reject) a keto-fied dessert – will not stop asking for these. I love them just the way they are but I’m totally trying them with hazelnuts next time. Boom.
Do you know of any way to dip these into a chocolate that sets up hard like the Lindor Truffles, while remainingketo friendly?
You could do a combination of 100% bakers chocolate and coconut oil or butter melted in the microwave!
Hey guys! Great recipe! You could also add some raspberry extract for a little extra something! Happy Valentine’s Day!
Great idea! Happy early V-Day 🙂
Hi guys! I cant find erythritol, may i use Sucralose? How much of líquid Sucralose
XOXO
We get our erythritol online – we link everything next to the ingredient in the post! Liquid stevia is probably your best second option and something we are comfortable using. We’ve never really worked with sucralose by itself, but are you referring to splenda? Splenda is significantly sweetere so my best guess is half, at most 3/4 of what is called for. Let us know if you have success!
Can I sub cocoa powder for baker’s chocolate?
Likely not 🙁 The outcome will be very different, not as thick and rich. That being said, we haven’t tried it so if you do please let us know!
3 level tablespoons cocoa plus 1 tablespoon butter for 1-ounce unsweetened baking chocolate. butter doesn’t have quite as nice of a texture as cocoa butter and would need to be refrigerated to stay firm.
I’m 74 years old with health issues which I am correcting, by the way, with Keto. I enjoy you two so much and wish for your continued success. At one time you were using Anthony’s sweetener so I bought some. I liked that it had no added ingredients. This new product contains silica dioxide. You two are pretty good at avoiding chemicals. What is so good about this product? I am learning. Keto on!
Anothonys work great too!
Could you sub coconut cream for the heavy cream to make it dairy free?
We haven’t given it a shot yet, but it seems possible! Let us know if you give it a try 🙂
Hi Mehga and Matt,
I made these yesterday and they were pretty yummy! Couple of things I wanted to share: since this is a ganache, you can simply pour the heated HWC over the shaved chocoloate in teh bowl. Wait about 30 secs and then whisk it smooth if you don’t have an immersion blender. I also had some ideas for flavor.. I put SF hazelnut syrup in the truffle and rolled them in toasted hazelnuts and had a keto ferrero rocher. You can also add mexican vanilla, cinnamon and a pinch of cayenne to the truffle and then roll them in crushed pecans and voila, a Mexican chocolate keto truffle. Enjoy! Glad to have you guys in ATL!
Thank you for the tips and additions!! This will help out a lot of people who don’t have an immersion blender.
Could you use almond milk?
Hi! I want to make these so bad, but cannot find erythritol in any of my local stores! Is there something in place of that I can use??
Thanks!
We’ve only ever bought ours online – Amazon has the cheapest! You could use Monk fruit sweetener!
Is there a dairy free version for this?? Perhaps coconut cream?
A lot of people have asked about this, and though it seems like a possibility, we haven’t given it a try! Please let us know how it turns out if you do 🙂
I made these last night and let them sit overnight before scooping. I used a smaller melon baller, which made me 24 truffles instead of 12, but they were still a perfect size!
Only thing different that I used ingredient-wise was that I had vanilla creme Sweet Drops
They are delicious, and a very rich, dark chocolate. I plan to try rolling them in other things in the future… cinnamon, powdered erythritol, coconut flakes, etc…
That sounds amazing, especially mini versions! Thanks for sharing 🙂
I made these today and they are yummiylicious 🙂 i and my husband loves them.. thank u so much Megha.
The only addition I did was I added vanilla extract.
Also I added little powdered erythritol and cinnamon powder along with cocoa powder while rolling them..
It tastes wonderful..
Thank you for everything you do.
I love your videos. I have 1 quick question. It could be the difference between Canadian and American heavy whipped cream but ours has 1 gram of carb per tablespoon, does yours have the same? It’s just when I breakdown the net carbs for myself I get a way different number.
For example your non cook cheesecake lists each cake (batch makes 4 according to your recipe) is a little over 2 net carbs but I get 5 with the same ingridients with out adding the choolate ganache.
Thanks Shelley
Each tbsp of HWC has around .5-.6 grams of carbs!
I forgot to mention after you stir the ganache pour over a keto chocolate cake- deliciousness. A good keto chocolate pudding is to take 1 can of coconut milk and 1 cup of Lilly’s Chocolate Chips and heat together in a saucepan. Whisk until the chocolate melts but don’t boil. Pour into 5 serving dishes and chill in the fridge. Chocolatey dense Lisas Truffle Pudding.
Thank you for this recipe, sounds perfect.
You have made a chocolate ganache and you don’t need a mixer. Pull the cream off the heat when hot add your chopped chocolate and let sit for 5 minutes. Stir after the 5 minutes-this is the usual method for ganache,
Can these be done without an immersion blender?
You can use a normal blender to combine!
I just used a small spatula and it worked well.
I used a whisk and added two tablespoons of butter to the heavy cream and waited for it to melt before proceeding, I also used powdered stevia to sweeten. About 14 scoops[1/32 tsp] And added powdered vanilla I make myself, about 1/4 tsp. I think bringing the cream to temperature then adding the chopped chocolate stir once, then cover with a pot lid for a few minutes is the best way to make a ganache, which is what this is.
I am so making this with hazelnut meal mixed in with the cocoa powder! You might want to try using coconut creme instead of coconut milk, for the thickness factor. I love using that in my chia seed chocolate spice shakes.
I assume I could add a tsp of raspberry extract for flavoring? And maybe use a smaller scoop? I am definitely making these TODAY! You guys ROCK!
That sounds great!