Dairy Free Blueberry Truffles

Serves: 2 dozen

Source: Ricardo, Holidays 2016

Ingredients:

  • 8 ounces of chopped dark chocolate
  • 1 – 1 1/3 cups thawed blueberries, drained
  • sifted cocoa powder to dust the truffles

Instructions:

  1. Place chocolate in a bowl.
  2. Puree drained blueberries. You will need 1/2 cup of puree.
  3. Bring blueberries to a boil and pour blueberry puree over chocolate and let melt for 3 minutes without stirring. Then whisk chocolate and blueberries puree until it is a smooth ganache.
  4. Pour ganache (chocolate mixture) into an 8 inch glass dish and refrigerate for 2 hours.
  5. Line a baking sheet with parchment. Form the ganache into ball (about 1 tablespoon per ball. Roll each ball in cocoa powder. Let the truffles set for at least 3 hours in the fridge or freeze for up to 3 months.
  6. Bring to room temperature before serving.

***Note: I used some disposable food gloves to form the truffles.