Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Truffles

Uncategorized | February 21, 2015 | By

So, I know I just gave you a dessert recipe. I know.

I also know that I outlined my unpopular opinion on Valentine’s Day in last week’s post, and now it would appear that I have made you heart-shaped chocolates. But I feel like that’s OK, because Valentine’s Day is over. I’m a weird kind of stubborn sometimes… Also, the only ice cube trays I own are those heart-shaped ones from Ikea. So, there’s that. But you should totally make these next time you have a date over, because they’ll probably fall for you immediately (if they haven’t already).
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And I know you may be a bit chocolate-d out from all the chocolate you may have consumed since last Saturday. But for me, there is no such thing as “chocolate-d out,” and I don’t think I’m alone. So I am honoring this month’s Recipe Redux theme, “Favorite Chocolate Matches,” with a super easy, delicious truffle recipe.

Amidst this extremely busy (and freezing) week, simple was the best way to go. I had been planning some kind of cocoa chili, but then earlier this week I made cinnamon chili instead, because I was 100% hungry and only about 60% adventurous. Such is the life of a grad student. 

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And so this morning, on the morning OF this post’s due date, I still did not have a recipe. Oops. Although, in the true nature of the challenge (which was to find a way to use leftover chocolate), I used two other leftover household staples to make these little nuggets of heaven – peanut butter and dates. So many of my favorite candies boast the peanut butter-caramel-chocolate trifecta, and dates are a perfect healthy way to simulate the texture and flavor of caramel. 

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I made these before heading off to see a student, popped them in the freezer, and they were perfectly set by the time I got home. Then, I had just enough time to pop them out of the mold and photograph them before I went out to rehearsal. If that’s not proof that these are low-maintenance, I don’t know what is. And I’m kind of high-maintenance. But these honestly taste super fancy, so nobody will have to know your secret 😉 4

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Salted Caramel Peanut Butter Truffles


Ingredients

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  • 3/4 cup pitted dates, mashed
  • Sea salt, to taste
  • 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips, melted
  • 3 tbs. peanut butter of choice

Instructions

  1. Combine mashed dates with a pinch or two of sea salt. Combine and set aside.*
  2. Spoon a small amount of dark chocolate into each section of a silicone ice tray or mold. Using the back of a teaspoon, spread the chocolate to thinly coat the bottom layer of each section. This layer should still be thick enough that you can’t see any of the tray through the chocolate.
  3. Place in freezer to set bottom layer, about 5 minutes.
  4. Fill each mold about 2/3 of the way up with mashed dates.
  5. Fill the rest of each mold evenly to the top with peanut butter.
  6. Thinly spread the rest of the chocolate on top of each candy (i.e. don’t cover the whole surface of the tray/mold with chocolate).
  7. Return to freezer until set, about 1 hour.

Notes

  • *If necessary to help with mashing, microwave the dates first for about 20-30 seconds.


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