Recipe Chocolate tahini balls

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

This is a pretty easy recipe to make. It helps if you have a nice tahini you like. It's just as important to have a decent chocolate you like and finally, it's handy if you like the coconut cream as well. I used dairy free dark chocolate, so these are vegan.

You can add flavouring but I'd recommend leaving a few plain.

Ingredients
125ml coconut cream (tinned, solid, drain any liquid off)
100g dark chocolate (70-80% type)
125ml tahini (drain the oil off and return it to the container afterwards)
1 tbsp icing sugar or maple syrup

Flavourings
Any essence you like.
2 tbsp chopped ground nuts
1tbsp alcohol, your choice.

Coatings
Powdered sugar, icing sugar, chopped nuts, hundreds and thousands etc.

Method

1. Warm the coconut cream and tahini together in a bowl. Microwave for 1 minute and mix well. If it won't blend, zap for another 30 seconds and repeat...
2. Add the chocolate broken into pieces. Zap for 30 seconds at a time, stir and see if it melts, repeat as needed...
3. Taste and see if you need to add sweetness. Add and mix as needed.
4. Once blended, depending on how many flavours you want, you'll either divide into 2, 3 or 4 smaller bowls. Add the essence/ alcohol (or ground nuts) and mix well.
5. Set aside in the fridge for a minimum of 3 hrs.
6. Take a ½ tbs measure and scoop out a rounded ½ tbsp at a time, roll into a ball, roll in to whatever coating you want to use and repeat.

Chill and serve when cooled and firm.

I added acacia, ground rose petals, cocoa powder, vanilla, almonds and hazelnuts.

Based on Chocolate Tahini Truffles from Tahini and Tumeric by Vicky Cohen and Ruth Fox.

 

[Morning Glory]

How pretty they look! I like the way you varied the flavours and coating.

I honestly couldn't eat them though. I love the irony if being able to appreciate a recipe whilst at the same time not want to eat it.

 

[TastyReuben]

These are beautifully done. I usually make truffles at some point every holiday season, and these will fit right in.

 

[MypinchofItaly]

I honestly couldn't eat them though

I’ll take your place, worry not

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

How pretty they look! I like the way you varied the flavours and coating.

I honestly couldn't eat them though. I love the irony if being able to appreciate a recipe whilst at the same time not want to eat it.

I, somehow, have to limit how many I eat in a day.

I love tahini, and chocolate and am on a diet. Those 3 do not work hand in hand.
I have frozen some in the hope that it will slow me down!

 

[Morning Glory]

I love tahini, and chocolate and am on a diet. Those 3 do not work hand in hand.
I have frozen some in the hope that it will slow me down!

They are quite small though. Maybe not so many calories in each little ball?

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

They are quite small though. Maybe not so many calories in each little ball?

I kept them that way. 2 mouthfuls. Knowing chocolate and tahini, plus coconut cream, I'd hazard a guess at over 100 calories a ball.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

They would also dip very well. The texture is great. Lovely and smooth.

This is one that was rolled in rose petal dust and overnight the flavour has permeated through it without the need for rose water.