4-Ingredient Sweet & Salty Peanut Butter Truffles
These irresistible, 4-Ingredient dessert truffles have only chocolate, peanut butter, dates for sweetening and a sprinkle of kosher salt. That's it!
Servings 16 truffles
Ingredients
- 1 8-oz package pitted dates ~1 cup packed
- 1/4 cup all natural peanut butter
- 8 oz dairy-free chocolate
- kosher salt for topping
Instructions
- Soak dates in hot water for 15 minutes to soften them. Drain and place them in a food processor along with the peanut butter. Blend until it forms an even and thick consistency, stopping to scrape down sides as needed. If the consistency is too thick for processing, add 1 teaspoon of water at a time until you are able to process the dates. Avoid adding too much water as this will make forming the truffles very difficult.
- Place processed mixture in freezer for 15 minutes to firm up.
- Remove from freezer and with your hands portion out about 1 tablespoon at a time and roll into balls.TIP: Wetting your hands periodically helps prevent the dates from sticking to your hands. Place the date balls on a pan covered with parchment paper. Place the balls back in the freezer for 15 minutes.
- Melt the chocolate in a double boiler on the stove top. Remove balls from freezer and drizzle chocolate over the balls and sprinkle kosher salt on top. Place the balls back in the freezer until chocolate has hardened, about 10 minutes.
- Store in an air-tight container in the refrigerator up to a week or freezer up to a month.
Notes
When melting chocolate for your truffles we recommend 100% Cacao Baker’s baking chocolate. *Note this is an affiliate link. This is not sweet at all so we like to use half 100% Cacao Baker's baking chocolate and half dairy-free dark chocolate.
If you're looking for something sweeter then its best to find a dairy-free brand and the higher percent of cocoa the better. Here are some dairy-free brands, although, depending on the percentage, many will still have sugar.
- Green & Black’s
- Trader Joe’s semi-sweet chocolate chips
- Enjoy Life semi-sweet chocolate
- 70% and up of Lindt products (70%, 85%, 90% and 99% bars)