These healthy pumpkin truffles will be your new favorite no bake fall dessert. Gluten free, vegan, and taste like pumpkin spice! A mouthwatering healthy truffle that everyone will love.
Pumpkin truffles make the best no bake fall dessert!
It’s pumpkin season and today I’m introducing you to the magic that is these Dark Chocolate Pumpkin Truffles!
Sweet pumpkin spice filling coated in melted dark chocolate and topped off with flaked sea salt.
If you love pumpkin you will go nuts for these delicious little bites! We are making these and pumpkin cheesecake truffles on repeat this fall.
Ingredients to make pumpkin truffles with dark chocolate
canned pumpkin
coconut flour: this is my secret for the perfect texture truffle without tons of powdered sugar in it.
pure maple syrup
vanilla extract
pumpkin pie spice
salt
cinnamon
pure cane sugar
coconut oil
dark chocolate chips
flaked sea salt, for topping
How to make pumpkin truffles
In a bowl, you will mix together all of the ingredients for the pumpkin truffles: canned pumpkin, coconut flour, maple syrup, vanilla, salt, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, sugar, and coconut oil.
The batter should be not sticky once you mix the coconut flour in.
Shaping the pumpkin truffles
My #1 hack for making these truffles super easy is using a mini cookie scoop. Just grab a cookie scoop, press the batter firmly into it, and drop onto a lined cookie sheet.
This way is so much easier than using your hands, and cuts a lot of time off of the prep. Use your cookie scoop to distribute the truffle batter onto a wax paper lined baking sheet.
Once you have scooped all of the truffles, place the cookie sheet in the freezer for 20 minutes. Cold truffles make for easier dipping, and less batter getting into the chocolate.
While the truffles are chilling, melt your chocolate. The recipe calls for dark chocolate chips, but you can use milk chocolate if you like for a sweeter truffle.
Dipping the truffles in dark chocolate
Once the truffles are chilled, it’s time to coat them in the chocolate. Drop a truffle into the bowl of melted chocolate. Use a spoon to drizzle chocolate over the top, then quickly remove with a fork and toothpick back onto the baking sheet. Repeat for the remaining truffles.
I usually google a truffle tutorial online before making them just as a quick refresher! Just remember that they don’t have to be perfect (mine certainly were not!)
After each truffle is dipped, place it back onto the wax paper lined cookie sheet. Sprinkle immediately with flaked sea salt. This is important to do this after each truffle, as the chocolate hardens quickly.
The sea salt is key for building the perfect bite so don’t skip it! Sea salt flakes on chocolate are LIFE CHANGING. It really takes the flavor to the next level. You gotta trust me on this.
This recipe is one that uses a whole can of pumpkin. That way you won’t have to worry about coming up with a use for leftover canned pumpkin, or wasting it!
These truffles are also vegan, gluten free, and no bake. So easy and perfect for everyone to eat! Store any leftovers in the fridge or freezer in an airtight container.
Are you making this recipe? I want to see! Don’t forget to tag me on instagram @buildyourbite and hashtag #buildyourbite with your recipe creations!
More pumpkin recipes
Vegan Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Gluten Free Pumpkin Cookies
Frozen Pumpkin Pie Smoothie
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Dip
Gluten Free Pumpkin Pie
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Yield: around 35 truffles
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Additional Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 50 minutes
These dark chocolate pumpkin truffles are so delicious and naturally gluten free and vegan. A healthy pumpkin spiced truffle that is perfect for fall!
Ingredients
15 oz canned pumpkin
1 cup coconut flour
¾ cups pure maple syrup
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ cup pure cane sugar
⅛ cup coconut oil, melted (measure while solid, then melt)
3 ½ cups dark chocolate chips
flaked sea salt, for topping
Instructions
Add pumpkin, maple syrup, vanilla, pumpkin pie spice, salt, cinnamon, sugar, and melted coconut oil to a bowl and mix well.
Add the coconut flour and mix until well combined (batter will be thick and not sticky)
Use a mini ice cream scoop (see pictures), or a spoon to form truffles
Place truffles on a wax paper lined baking sheet
Freeze the truffles for 20 minutes
Melt the chocolate while the truffles are freezing. The easiest way is to melt in a microwave safe bowl in 20-30 second increments. Stir often and do not overcook to avoid burning the chocolate.
For each truffle, drop it into the melted chocolate. use a spoon to drizzle the chocolate over the top
Use a fork and toothpick under the bottom to place truffle back onto the lined baking sheet
Top immediately with flaked sea salt
Repeat until every truffle is dipped in chocolate and topped with sea salt
Place back in the freezer until solid
Store in a ziploc bag or freezer safe container
store leftovers in the fridge or freezer
Notes
You can easily google "how to dip truffles" to find a visual tutorial if you have never made them before!
Chill the truffles briefly, for about 15 minutes, while you prepare whatever you'd like to roll or enrobe them in. If your ganache isn't firm enough to scoop into balls, you can chill it in the fridge to harden.
Use a higher chocolate-to-cream ratio to produce a thicker ganache. Milk chocolate, white chocolate, and compound chocolate all melt down to a thinner consistency than dark chocolate does. For a thicker ganache, like for truffles, use a 2:1 ratio of chocolate to cream.
A truffle is a rich chocolate candy. The inside of a chocolate truffle consists of melted chocolate, butter, cream, nuts and different flavorings such as spirits or liqueurs, vanilla, coffee, and spices.
Homemade truffles can last up to 2 weeks in the refrigerator and for up to 6 months in the freezer. For the best texture and flavor, bring them to room temperature before serving. Even if you're planning on gifting your chocolate truffles, be sure to store them in the fridge or freezer.
You don't add ingredients to chocolate to make it harden, you temper it by heating it to a specific temperature, cooling it to another temperature, then heating it again. This causes the chocolate to crystalize in a way that leaves it hard and shiny. The temperatures are different for different kinds of chocolate.
Using a fridge can cut the hardening time for chocolate by about half. Depending on the type of chocolate you are working with, the hardening time can be reduced to as little as 10-20 minutes. Using your fridge to harden melted chocolate is an effective option when you need to speed up the settings process.
Full-fat coconut milk or a blend of coconut milk and coconut cream are an ideal substitute for heavy cream. The truffles in this photo are made from canned coconut milk; I recommend choosing a brand that is in a container that doesn't contain BPA.
Another way to fix your runny ganache is by cooling your ganache down first before using it. It is very easy to do, all you have to do is wrap the ganache with plastic wrap and store it in the fridge, at least for an hour. After that, you can mix the ganache again with a mixer to thicken the texture.
For a firmer ganache, you want the chocolate ratio to be double the ratio of heavy cream (2:1). Don't use too much cream or you will be left with a thin runny ganache. The chocolate ganache did not cool long enough. As the chocolate ganache cools, the consistency of the ganache gets thicker.
Dark chocolate contains flavanols, naturally occurring antioxidants that have been shown to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease by lowering LDL cholesterol while raising HDL cholesterol levels. It decreases the incidence of hypertension and stroke, and increases insulin sensitivity.
Despite sharing a name, a chocolate truffle does not contain any truffles of the mushroom variety. Nevertheless, some especially adventurous chocolate manufacturers may attempt to make chocolate-covered mushrooms.
Pound for pound, truffle is one of the most expensive foods you can buy. The reason behind such high costs is the scarcity of the produce, truffles are seasonal, extremely difficult to grow, and take many years to cultivate. They also have a short shelf life.
Do not refrigerate chocolate. Whether you only eat gourmet truffles or consume any chocolate put in front of you, please don't store chocolate in the fridge. This is because chocolate easily absorbs the odors of whatever items it is placed near to in a fridge, which can have a detrimental effect on its flavor.
To give as presents, place 8-10 truffles in individual foil or paper cases inside small, lined boxes tied with ribbon. Keep in the fridge until you're ready to give them. Will keep in an airtight container in the fridge for three days, or frozen for up to a month.
Add more chocolate. If your ganache's fluidity is too high, it most likely means the ganache contains too much cream. Therefore, the texture becomes more runny and liquid-like. ...
Cool it down first. Another way to fix your runny ganache is by cooling your ganache down first before using it.
"A good truffle should melt in your mouth," says Saffitz. If you serve them stone-cold and straight outta the fridge, you're missing the point. That said, letting them sit at room temperature for hours will render them so soft that you can't pick them up.
The chocolate will melt at around 30 Celsius, but will distemper at around 33 Celsius. Distempered chocolate solidifies in a grainy mass. You should not let it go warmer than 33 C, better yet 32, and that's a very narrow temperature range to hit.
The mold should be left undisturbed so it can harden before being demolded. When molding, make sure the temperature of the molds is no higher than 79°F-81°F for milk and white chocolate and 83-85°F for dark chocolate.
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