Chocolate Walnut Truffle Bites
- Chocolate Walnut Truffle Bites
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- Submitted By: Jessie Grearson
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These are delightfully easy to make (using a food processor) and they include lots of healthy ingredients that are good for you (dark chocolate, walnuts, oats, coconut). But you won’t be thinking about your health when you savor one of these….
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- Servings: 24
- Prep Time: 20m
- Cook Time: 20m
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- Ingredients
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For Chocolate Truffle Filling:
1/2 cup bittersweet chocolate chips
3 oz Neufchatel (lower fat) cream cheese
1/4 cup evaporated milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the dough:
2/3 cup English walnuts
6 Tablespoons confectioner’s sugar
1/2 cup quick cooking oats
1/4 cup whole wheat pastry
4 Tablespoons unsalted butter
3 Tablespoons light olive oil
3 Tablespoons shredded coconut
1 Tablespoon cornstarch
½ tsp salt
½ tsp vanilla
- Directions
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Prepare Filling:
1. In medium saucepan, melt bittersweet chocolate chips. Add cream cheese and evaporated milk and stir until melted and incorporated. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract.
2. Prepare dough:
Process walnuts in a food processor. When finely ground, add confectioner’s sugar and process, then oats and flour and process until oats are finely chopped. Drop cold butter by tablespoons through feed tube, add oil, and process briefly. Add coconut and cornstarch, salt and vanilla, and process just until mixture resembles crumbly, fine meal, but will hold together if pressed.3. Reserve a ½ cup of tart dough to use as crumbled topping.
4. Line a mini cupcake pan with 24 mini paper liners. Drop a scant tablespoon of dough and press lightly on bottom and partway up the sides, forming a crust with a well in the center. (Kids with little fingers are great at this.)
5. Spoon chocolate filling on top of tart dough and then top each with reserved crumbs. Press tops gently to adhere dough crumbles.
6. Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes in a middle rack of your oven, or until bottom crust cooks through and top is golden brown. (Watch carefully toward the end and move pan to bottom rack if tops begin to brown before bottom crust is done.) Remove and cool. Makes about 24, depending on how much you fill your cups.
