Margo Fanagan: Avocado Chocolate Truffles

If you are looking for a sweet treat that's super easy to make, requires minimal ingredients, and is completely moreish – these avocado chocolate truffles are the perfect option. They will satisfy your sweet cravings while also making you feel great!   

Makes: 8  
Time: 15 minutes  

  

Ingredients 

• 2 avocados  
• 150g dark chocolate, melted  
• 2 tbsp coconut oil, melted  
• 2 tbsp maple syrup  
• 1 tsp sea salt   

  

Method 

1. Place all of the ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.   
2. Spoon the truffle mixture into a bowl and place in the freezer to set for 2-3 hours.  
3. Once set, roll the mixture into balls and coat in cacao nibs or cacao powder.  
4. Store in an airtight container in the freezer for up to 2 months. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to this Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks That Be Right.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Margot Flannagan, one of the two Raw Sisters, is with
us this morning with this week's recipe, and we've chosen
an avocado chocolate truffle recipe and Margo I started the
show by saying, I'm not sure about avocado and dessert.
Convince me.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
So many people say this, Jack, but don't judge a
book by its cover.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Guys, I get it.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
I mean it's nutty, it's rich, it's creamy, it's fatty.
I can I can see your eze why avocado and
dessert is a good thing. But maybe I just don't
think that dessert should ever be healthy? Is that my reticence,
you reckon?

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Maybe? I mean I think it's it's good when it's
with dark chocolate because you don't notice, Yeah, avocado is
there so much like it's not green in any sense.
You know, you can't you can't notice it at all,
but it gives you that really delicious creaminess.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah right, okay, so rass through it. Sure.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
So it's so easy. All you need to do is
add avocados to a blender. Now, this is great because
use those kind of brown avocados or ones that have
maybe gone a bit overripe. You can kind of you
you can get away with the with the not so

(01:27):
good guys in here. So leave the good ones for
your salads. And if you have a brown one, save
it and make these truffles. So add avocado to a
blender with one hundred and fifty grams of melted duck chocolate,
and then we've got two tablespoons of melted coconut oil.
Now you can use extraversion olive oil that's really delicious

(01:49):
with chocolate. Or you could also use butter as well,
melted butter. And then we've got two tablespoons of maple syrup.
If you don't have maple syrup, use honey, use coconut sugar,
use any sweetening you have at home. You could even
add a overripe banana in there, and then a good
generous pinch of sea salt. Blend it all together and

(02:11):
that's it, and then put it into a bowl and
let it set in the freezer for a couple of hours,
and then roll it into truffles. And you can we've
rolled them in cocar powder, or you can use cocoa
powder or we've also rolled some in kacoan nibs which
give it a bit of texture. But they are so

(02:32):
easy and you can actually also use this as a
cake icing. Oh just had her daughter's first birthday yesterday
and we made this truffle max for the icing and
it was delicious.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
What a good idea.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, that's great, and just like there's definitely richness in
the raa between the I mean the avocado, but whether
you go with the olive oil or with the coconut
oil or whatever. Yeah, yeah, it's nice and nice and
rich but also not crazy sweet. Could you know?

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Everyone should get around it? It's so good?

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Do you reckon? Like, what about like an avocado that's
getting a bit kind of getting on you know? Could
you use an avocado?

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Absolutely?

Speaker 4 (03:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Right, you know when kind of they start to smell
a bit funny, like off, I wouldn't use those that
I would, but if it's brown, or it's quite stringy,
or there's any sort of imperfections in there. Rose is
very fussy with her avocados, right, so if there are
any imperfections in there, make this recipe.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah cool, Hey, thank you? That sounds amazing that's Margo
Flanagan of the Two Raw Sisters. You can hear more
of them, of course, on the Two Raw Sisters podcast.
And we're going to make sure that recipe for avocado
chocolate truffles is up on the News Talks.

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