If you know me, you know I love a bite-sized treat! These hazelnut balls are just the right amount of savory-sweet goodness.
No Bake And So Easy To Make
I also love no bake and super easy recipes. These chocolate hazelnut truffles are pretty much where all my desires meet. They only have about a handful of ingredients, require no baking (only melting chocolate), and you make them in a mixing bowl with no special kitchen gadgets or tools. I mean, does it really get much easier than that?
Familiar Decadent Flavors
There is a chocolate hazelnut spread you can buy at grocery stores that I maybe used to have a slight addiction to. I do sometimes miss that sweet and savory combination of flavors. Now that my tastebuds have changed so much, I actually prefer savory with a little bit of sweet. These chocolate hazelnut truffles have these familiar flavors of that unnamed spread I referred to, but with real food ingredients you can pronounce! Plus, I managed to sneak avocado in them!
Only 6 Simple Ingredients
I love it when I can make a treat with ingredients I almost always have one hand. It makes it easy to whip up a little something when I have the desire or a craving. These chocolate hazelnut truffles have six ingredients in them, all of which you will recognize and can pronounce.
No Bake Chocolate Hazelnut Truffles (Paleo, GF + Dairy-Free)
Ingredients
- 1 cup dairy-free chocolate chips, melted
- 1 large ripe avocado
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp vanilla
- Pinch of sea salt
- 1/2 cup roasted hazelnuts, chopped
Instructions
- Melt chocolate chips in a double boiler on the stove or in a microwave safe dish in the microwave. If using the microwave, heat in 30 second increments, stirring in between to prevent the chocolate from burning.
- Mash avocado with a fork in a medium sized mixing bowl getting as many of the clumps out as possible. Add the rest of the ingredients, except the hazelnuts, and mix until smooth and velvety.
- Place mixture in fridge to harden for about an hour. Once firm, remove from fridge and roll into tablespoon sized balls. Then, roll in chopped hazelnuts. I like to add a little more sea salt all over, too. Store in an airtight container in the fridge.
But chocolate chips have refined sugar in them, don’t they?
There are actually some out there now are made with coconut sugar. I found them at Thrive Market, and they are the brand Pascha. 🙂