Healthy Real Food Chocolate Peanut Butter Truffles are a fun, protein-packed, festive treat for the holidays – with better ingredients than Buckeyes or Peanut Butter Balls.
Real food chocolate peanut butter truffles – yes please!
You can call them Buckeyes or Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls … but my family prefers to call these bad boys Healthy Real Food Chocolate Peanut Butter Truffles.
Truffles are such a fun treat for the holidays! My family has been enjoying the tradition of making these healthy real food chocolate peanut butter truffles every year for Christmas. My husband and Little Love are HUGE fans of these delectable truffles.
But here’s the thing … the traditional version of this candy is full of refined sugar. I know, it’s just a once a year treat. By all means, go for it and use powdered sugar if you want to.
Since my family loves to make lots of treats for Christmas like gluten free gingerbread cookies, grain free chocolate crinkles, grain free ginger molasses cookies, fudge AND Instant Pot peppermint cheesecake, I do my best to make recipes a bit healthier without refined sugars.
For starters, I swap out the traditional powdered sugar for unrefined maple sugar. I LOVE the way maple sugar tastes plus it adds such a delicious flavor. I also make my own homemade chocolate coating {but I’ve included the tradition chocolate chip coating version in the recipe too}.
I also add collagen! Why? For a few reasons. Collagen adds extra protein to the recipe, and that’s a huge bonus in my book. The brand I use is 10 grams of protein per scoop. This recipe calls for 2 scoops, so you get a good dose of protein in these healthy real food chocolate peanut butter truffles.
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I also love that I can sneak it into any drink, smoothie and lots of recipes so my oldest daughter won’t know. Those of you who have followed me for a while know my oldest doesn’t eat as well as the rest of the family. Whenever I can get some collagen into her diet, I feel a sense of relief.
But back to this fun holiday treat …
Healthy real food chocolate peanut butter truffles are so fun to make plus super easy too. This is a recipe that your kids can easily help with.
My family loves to eat them right out of the freezer … they have the best texture when they’re still frozen. So yummy!
Happy Holidays from my family to yours!
Healthy Real Food Chocolate Peanut Butter Truffles
Healthy Real Food Chocolate Peanut Butter Truffles are a fun, protein-packed, festive treat for the holidays - with better ingredients than Buckeyes or Peanut Butter Balls. To Make the Peanut Butter Truffles: Chocolate Coating WITH Chocolate Chips: Chocolate Coating WITHOUT Chocolate Chips: To Coat the Peanut Butter Truffles: To Make the Optional Chocolate Drizzle: YOU WILL NEED: Unbleached Parchment Paper, Baking Sheet {that can be placed in the freezer}, Large Mixing Bowl, Handheld Mixer, Small Saucepan Storage: I store the truffles in an airtight container in the freezer so they keep longer. They're delicious right out of the freezer. Stevia-Sweetened Chocolate Chips: I like using this brand of sugar-free chocolate chips when I need to make a recipe with less sugar. *A note on the maple sugar - I prefer to use this unrefined sugar and it tastes delicious! You can use the traditional powdered sugar instead. You could also use coconut sugar or sucanat, but if you choose to use them, make sure to grind it up a bit in a food processor first so it becomes more of a fine powder. This nutritional information was auto-generated based on serving size, number of servings, and typical information for the ingredients listed. To obtain the most accurate representation of the nutritional information in a given recipe, please calculate the nutritional information with the actual ingredients and amounts used, using your preferred nutrition calculator. Under no circumstances shall the this website and the author be responsible for any loss or damage resulting for your reliance on the given nutritional information. You are solely responsible for ensuring that any nutritional information provided is accurate, complete, and useful.Healthy Real Food Chocolate Peanut Butter Truffles
Ingredients
For the Peanut Butter Filling:
For a Chocolate Coating - WITH chocolate chips:
For a Chocolate Coating - WITHOUT chocolate chips:
Instructions
Notes
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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 22
Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 296Total Fat: 19gSaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 9gCholesterol: 9mgSodium: 149mgCarbohydrates: 28gFiber: 3gSugar: 13gProtein: 6g
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I so *love* this recipe and that you give a coating recipe alternative for those who can’t have chocolate chips!! 🙂 I can’t wait to make these for my kids and ME! xx
Thanks so much Megan! These are so much fun and a nice alternative to the traditional ones. I hope you get to make them for your family. Happy holidays! xo
My mouth is watering! These sound so good!
Thank you Renee! They’re so delicious 🙂
Wow. These are gorgeous! All that drizzled chocolate! You should call them Amaze Balls!
LOL thanks Linda! xo
Definitely going on my menu… 😉
I hope you get to make some! 🙂
I’ve never tried truffles before! I can’t wait. We use almond butter but that should work perfectly as well. Thank you!
I’m sure any nut butter would be delicious. 🙂 I don’t do so well with peanut butter, but my husband and daughter love it. So I make these for them.
These sound amazing! One question. Can you eat raw flour?
Thanks! Yes you can, just like raw cookie dough 🙂
I COULD NEVER EVER EVER HAVE THESE IN MY HOUSE – LOL! I wouldn’t be able to STOP eating them!
LOL they are pretty addictive 🙂 Luckily they’re much healthier + they’ve got some gut healing protein in them 😉
Ohh these look amazing! I love the chocolate shell and drizzle. It makes them look so professional like they belong in a fancy shop!
Aww thanks Tash! Such kinds words 🙂
I remember last year wanting to make peanut butter truffles like this and then realizing that you have to use a ton of powdered sugar. I figured I’d make them anyways and just share because it was a special occasion, but they ended up being waaaaay too sweet for me because I wasn’t used to having so much sugar anymore. That being said – I can’t wait to try there – I just need to find some maple sugar and I’m all over it!
The powered sugar ones are yummy too, just a bit more sugar than I’m wanting 🙂 I LOVE the maple sugar and it adds such a nice flavor. I hope you get to make some!
What a special treat, we will just love your Peanut Butter Truffles. Thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday and hope you are having a great holiday season!
Come Back Soon,
Miz Helen
Thank you Miz Helen! Hope you’re enjoying the holiday season too.
Emily, Can you please give measurements for the collagen? Mine doesn’t have a scoop. Thanks! Can’t wait to make these.
Hi Shari, it will end up being about 1/4 cup. Enjoy them! 🙂
Any chance these could be made dairy free? Not sure if coconut oil is too soft… maybe palm shortening?
Coconut oil could possibly work, but will change the flavor a bit. I would assume palm shortening could work better, but I haven’t tried it. My body doesn’t do well with coconut oil so I haven’t tried it that way. I hope you get to make them. 🙂