Chocolate Coconut Breakfast Truffles


Breakfast truffles are one of my favorite things.  Dessert you can guilt-less-ly eat for breakfast.  I make these delicious raw energy bites to eat in the morning before a workout.  I’ve made all kinds of yummy flavors.  

This is an extra-special breakfast truffle recipe because I made it with my wonderful friend Maria – we filmed a video of us making these yummy treats, which you can watch on her amazing vegan health and fitness blog limetreelife.  Check it out here!


Now for the recipe:

yields 16 truffles
1 C raw cashews
2 C pitted dates
1 C unsweetened dried coconut + 2 T extra for coating your truffles
2 T cocoa powder
2 t vanilla extract

In a food processor, grind cashews until a little coarser than coarse cornmeal (try saying that 3 times fast now!)  Take out 2 T of the cashews and set aside in a shallow bowl.

Add dates and blend until completely ground into the cashews.  Then add the rest of the ingredients (except the extra 2 T coconut) and blend until thoroughly combined.

Take the mixture by large heaping tablespoons and roll into truffles in the palms of your hands.  Then roll into the cashews and/or coconut to coat.


Enjoy these little energy bites before a workout, or eat them as a raw guilt-free dessert!

Don’t forget to head over to Maria’s blog limetreelife to check out some of her other amazing videos and blog posts.  She has great fitness posts, like advice on how often to work out and what to do if you’re not seeing results.  You can also follow Maria at her Pilates website here for fitness and health tips, and she’s got another great workout video! 

Nutrition facts per truffle:Calories: 136; Calories from Fat: 55; Total Fat: 6.1g; Saturated Fat: 2.5g; Sodium: 3mg; Total Carbohydrates: 20.6g; Dietary Fiber: 2.2g; Sugars: 14.6g; Protein: 2.2g


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9 responses to “Chocolate Coconut Breakfast Truffles”

  1. Lorraine Avatar

    Hey Leslie, just found your blog on Pinterest. New vegan – love your site. You might just be my salvation:) Keep the good stuff coming. I’ll be following you all the way.

  2. Leslie Avatar

    Awww, that is so sweet, Lorraine! Welcome to veganism, and to my blog! Glad to have you 🙂

  3. tpcat Avatar
    tpcat

    do you soak the cashews 1st?

  4. Juise Avatar

    tpcat, I don’t think so, I’m sure she would have said. I didn’t, they were delicious.

    Which brings me back to what I was going to say. Leslie, I love you.

    I have been soooo tempted every time you post truffles, but I don’t normally keep dates in stock and then I go truffless.

    When you posted these, I couldn’t take it anymore. I remembered to buy dates. I am never eating anything else ever again. 😉

    I will say, however, that this was the *first recipe ever* that I was not able to make do with my immersion blender and or / stand blender instead of a food processor, as called for. I do not have one, and it has never really been an issue, the other two blendy things have always been able to handle it.

    It took me all eternity to make these, and I think I nearly burned out my immersion blender, lol. x_x

    But yeah, I am totally buying a food processor now. Because I need to make more breakfast truffles.

    A lot more.

    xoxo

  5. Leslie Avatar

    Aww, thanks Juise! You are far too kind! And you’re right, this is one recipe that will be really difficult with an immersion blender – food processor it is! Until you get one, soaking your dates for awhile and using raw cashew butter instead of chopping the cashews yourself would help a lot. Actually, then you could use coconut butter too. Much less blending.

    tpcat, sorry I didn’t see your comment right away! No, I didn’t soak the cashews – it would actually make these too soft, so I don’t recommend that.

  6. Amery Avatar

    Hey Leslie, I don’t have a food processor, but I do have a vitamix. Do you think that would work? And how do you store these, and how long will they last. My husband doesn’t eat coconut, so they are all mine. Muuuaaahhhhaaaaaa…..

    1. Juise Avatar
      Juise

      I make mine in a ninja blender, no problems. Hopefully you figured this out already, but I thought I would reply for anyone else wondering. 🙂

      1. Leslie Kolafa Avatar

        Great idea, and thanks for helping out with your answer! Absolutely, a Vitamix or Ninja will be perfect! 🙂 Thank you!

  7. […] and she made a Pilates workout to share with me.  We filmed it all!  I posted the recipe for my Chocolate Coconut Breakfast Truffles on Tuesday, and Maria posted the video on her wonderful blog limetreelife.  We had so much fun, […]

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