Chocolate-Chip Cookie Dough Truffles (white bean)

By Kathy C.

By Chocolate Covered Katie
These secretly-healthier cookie dough truffles are scarfed down by everyone who’s ever tried them. Even without butter, eggs, and flour, they taste just as sinfully delicious as traditional cookie dough truffles.
(Makes 18-20 truffles)
Nutrition Facts (w/o chocolate coating)
Calories: 40
Fat: 0.5 grams
Protein: 1 gram
Carbs: 6 grams
Fiber: 0.5 grams
Cholesterol: 0 mg

Ingredients

• Healthy Chocolate Sauce:
• 1/2 can chickpeas or white beans, drained and rinsed (125g after being drained)
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
• scant 1/8 tsp salt
• scant 1/8 tsp baking soda
• 2 tablespoons nut butter or oil (If you use peanut butter, they’ll have a slight “pb cookie dough” taste.)
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 2 T chocolate chips, or more if desired
• 1-2 T rolled oats or quick oats (or flaxmeal)
• optional: 1 bag chocolate chips, or Healthy Chocolate Sauce (see below)
• optional: milk of choice if needed, to thin it out
• 4 tablespoons virgin coconut oil
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder (or 1/2 cup cocoa for thicker chocolate)
• 1/4 cup agave OR 30 drops nunaturals vanilla stevia drops + 3Tbsp water

Preparation

Step 1

Add all ingredients (except chocolate chips) to a food processor, and blend until very smooth. Then mix in the chocolate chips and form balls. (I used a melon baller.) You can eat these plain, but if you wish to cover them in chocolate, proceed thusly: Allow to chill in the fridge. Once chilled, make up the healthy chocolate sauce (below) OR melt chocolate chips with 2 tsp coconut oil (or shortening). Take the balls from the fridge and cover in chocolate, then return them to the fridge to harden. Stored in the fridge, I imagine these will keep for 3-4 days. But I can’t be entirely sure, since my truffles were completely gone in closer to 3-4 minutes!
(Makes 18-20 truffles)

Healthy Chocolate Sauce:
Melt the coconut oil, either in the microwave or on a candle warmer or in a warm oven. Add the vanilla drops (or agave) and stir. Add the cocoa, then add 3 tablespoons water only if you used vanilla drops. Stir stir stir! Stir until it gets thick like Artisana Cacao Bliss.