Valentine’s Day Protein Truffles in a Box

Valentines day: a day to celebrate love and to receive some chocolates from your partner. Although if you’d really like to knock the ball out of the park this year and feeling really creative look no further than these delicious protein truffles in a fancy box! You’ll really woo their socks off! These are a ‘functional’ box of chocolates packed-full of protein so you can get your sweet tooth fix in for the day!

The recipes below are really fun, all have the same directions, and ensure you’ll be received with a barrage of bear hugs (because who doesn’t like homemade dark chocoliciousness inside a lovingly-made and quite-obviously-homemade-looking box?) The beauty of this is also that you can tweak the recipe to your loved one’s favourite chocolate flavours so that, when they open the box and bites into these babies, an explosion of deliciousness will take over.

The very first thing you do is get out some cardboard, thick coloured paper, or both. Draw a heart on one of your sheets and a similar but smaller heart on an other – these hearts and going to be the top and bottom of the box. Then, cut out strips of cardboard for the sides and start taping them around the hearts. This is really all the box boils down to. The smaller heart is where you are going to put your protein truffles and the bigger heart is the cover. OK. Once your box is ready, move on to the truffles. So, we’ll give you the recipe for these four kinds – vanilla, chocolate, coconut and caramel, and make the other two (almond and bailey’s) another day.

Note: All truffles were made the same way with 90% chocolate

Ingredients

For the Vanilla Protein Truffles

4 tablespoons vanilla protein powder
1 tablespoon apple fiber
2 tablespoon hulled hemp seeds
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1/8 cup oat flour

For the Dark Chocolate Protein Truffles

2 tablespoons apple fiber or ground instant oats
1 tablespoon 100% cocoa powder
2 tablespoons chocolate vegan protein
5 tablespoons coconut milk

For the Coconut Protein Truffles

3 tablespoons grated coconut
3 tablespoons unflavored, chocolate, or coconut whey protein powder
2 tablespoons coconut milk
2 tablespoons instant oats (ground)
1.5 teaspoon stevia

For the Caramel Protein Truffles

1/4 a small cooked sweet potato
1/4 cup medjool dates
1/4 cup vanilla, caramel, or toffee whey protein
1 tablespoons cup instant oats (ground)
1 teaspoon toffee flavdrops
1 tablespoon ground almonds

Directions

1. Mix all ingredients together with a fork until you get a soft batter. If it’s too thick, add more mil, if it’s too watery, add more ground almonds or ground up oats!

2. Roll mixture into balls.

3. Place some oatflour (or anti-stickiness coating) onto a baking sheet or cookie tray.

4. Dunk the balls into melted chocolate – or pour the melted chocolate on top.

5. Transfer to freezer and let sit for 20 minutes until the chocolate sets.