CHOCcreative, Raw Chocolate Recipes, December 09

The Holiday Season is now upon us and our CHOCaliciously Decadent Christmas Chocolate Truffle Recipe is ideal for home made chocolate gifts. So we’ve kept this recipe up this month to ensure you can easily share the love and make unique gifts to hand out this Christmas (everyone I know will be getting these!).

It’s also been incredibly cold this December, so to warm ourselves up we’ve been making lots of Hot CHOC drinks to keep us going and on special occasions have even added some spices and brandy to make big pots of Mulled Hot CHOC. So this year forget the mulled wine and indulge in a bit of antioxidant rich mulled chocolate instead!

CHOC Chick’s Decadent & Christmassy Raw Chocolate Truffle Recipe

Ingredients

• 100g CHOC Chick Raw Cacao Butter
• 30g CHOC Chick Raw Cacao Powder (6-7 tablespoons)
• 2-3tbs CHOC Chick Agave Syrup or Sweet Freedom
• 25g butter (for a completely raw version, there really isn’t any need to add this butter, so don’t add if you are vegan)
• 5 tsp rum (or water)
• 4 tbsp single cream (vegan creams work brilliantly!)
• 50g ground almonds
• Extra CHOC Chick Raw Cacao Powder , cinnamon or desiccated coconut to roll the truffles in

Directions

Gently melt the raw cacao butter in a bowl over a saucepan of water on a low heat. Once it's melted, add the raw cacao powder and agave syrup/Sweet freedom (taste it before it cools and experiment with the quantity, more powder makes a slightly harder mix but more chocolaty taste and more agave/Sweet Freedom obviously makes the chocolate sweeter). Once you have the right raw chocolate mix, turn off heat and beat in the butter, rum (or water), creame and almonds. Leave to set for around 40-45 minutes in the freezer. Remove from freezer when the mix has hardened and is easy to scoop up with a teaspoon.

Once the chocolate has set: Roll a teaspoon sized piece of the mixture in your hands until it is shaped like a ball. Roll it in raw cacao power, cinnamon or desiccated coconut and pop into little paper case. For a super decadent and more Christmassy taste, roll in icing sugar and cinnamon!

These truffles make glorious handmade Christmas presents. Just pop them in gift bags and share these amazing chocolates with everyone you love!

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