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Dark Chocolate Maple Cream Homemade Truffles

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Dark chocolate maple cream truffles on a china plate.

February can be a pretty drab, dismal month, but there is one thing I always look forward to this time of year – maple sugaring season! It’s still a bit early for the real sugaring season, but my cravings for maple-flavored treats are already going into overdrive. Last year I made a batch of maple sugar snow candy and this year to satisfy my maple cravings, I decided to make a maple cream filling for some dark chocolate maple homemade truffles.

Where to Find Maple Sugar

While you could try making the filling for these homemade truffles with maple syrup, using maple sugar will give the best maple flavor and the best texture. It would be pretty hard to find the right balance between having enough maple flavor and having a sticky, runny mess using the syrup. Another bonus of using maple sugar is that you don’t have to use any refined, processed confectioner’s sugar to make these truffles.

Maple sugar isn’t as popular as maple syrup, so it isn’t quite as easy to find.  If you live near a place where maple syrup is made, the best and cheapest place to find maple sugar is at a local sugar house. If you don’t live near a maple sugaring area, though, you might be able to find maple sugar at a specialty foods store. If you can’t find maple sugar near where you live, though, you can find it online. (Find organic maple sugar here).

Pure maple sugar is a bit pricey, especially if you want organic maple sugar, but if you use it sparingly as a special treat, you can make a jar of it last for quite a while. For a slightly cheaper maple sugar that isn’t certified organic but is still pure and good-quality, you can order maple sugar from Parker’s Maple Barn, a sugar house in New Hampshire where I’ve gone before to get syrup and sugar and to take a tour of the sugar house while they were boiling down sap into syrup. (The maple smoke in the air was absolutely heavenly!)

The cream filling in these truffles uses powdered maple sugar. Unless you are really lucky, though, you’ll probably only be able to find granulated maple sugar. I’ve never seen it sold in powdered form before. The granules are a bit softer than cane sugar, though, so it’s not too hard to powder them yourself.

I used my handy little mortar and pestle, and it only took me a couple of minutes to grind it all up. If you don’t have a mortar and pestle, though, you could always put the sugar in a plastic bag and pound it with a rolling pin, or you could just toss it in a blender or food processor. Call me crazy, but I actually prefer the mortar and pestle to using a blender or food processor even if it takes an extra couple of minutes. There’s just something I find really enjoyable and satisfying about using an old-fashioned mortar and pestle.

Dark Chocolate Maple Cream Truffle Recipe

Ingredients:

  • 1/4 cup powdered maple sugar
  • 2 Tbs butter (preferably from grass-fed cows)
  • 1 tsp arrowroot powder (optional) *
  • pinch of sea salt (omit if using salted butter)
  • About 1.5 ounces of dark chocolate **

* The purpose of the arrowroot powder is just to thicken the maple cream mixture up a bit to make it easier to work with. If you don’t have arrowroot powder, you could chill the maple cream for 15-20 minutes instead before dipping it in the melted chocolate.

** 1.5 ounces is about half of a standard chocolate bar. For the best quality, I would recommend chocolate that is organic, soy-free, and gmo-free. (You can find one of my favorite kinds of dark chocolate here) I would highly recommend dark chocolate – the darker the better. I used an 85% bar. Since the maple cream is so sweet, the slight bitterness of the dark chocolate helps to balance out the sweetness.

Directions:

  1. Let butter sit out at room temperature until soft.
  2. While butter is softening, process your granulated maple sugar into powdered maple sugar, using whatever method you prefer.
  3. Cream together the butter and powdered maple sugar just as you would do if you were making cookies. Mix in the pinch of salt and the arrowroot powder if you choose to use those. If your mixture feels a bit too soft, pop it in the fridge to chill for a few minutes while you melt the chocolate.
  4. Melt the chocolate, using a double boiler, being careful not to let the chocolate get so hot that it burns. (I’ve burned my fair share of chocolate, and there’s just no coming back once it’s burnt. Sigh.)
  5. Once your chocolate is nice and melty, divide your maple cream into equal portions and roll each portion into a little ball. (I ended up with eight maple cream balls.)
  6. Dip each maple ball into the melted chocolate, rolling it around a bit to make sure it’s fully covered, and place on a tray or plate.
  7. Pop the truffles back into the fridge to let the chocolate harden. Lick the remains of the melted chocolate and maple cream out of the bowl while you wait and then enjoy the maple-chocolate decadence!

Note: This recipe makes 8 small truffles. You could easily double or even triple the recipe if you want to make more or if you want to make larger truffles. Because the maple cream filling is so rich and sweet, though, I’ve found that a small truffle is satisfying enough.

Usually whenever I hear someone say that a small bite is enough to satisfy a sweet tooth, I think “Yeah right. Like that tiny bite is going to satisfy my chocolate cravings?!” Seriously, though, as a chocoholic and former sugar addict, I can assure you that a small one of these truffles really is rich and sweet enough to be satisfying.

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Dark chocolate maple cream truffles on a china plate.

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I haven't tried maple sugar yet. These look awesome! I can't wait to make them!

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These look amazing! I have 2 maple lovers in my life so I must make these.Thanks for sharing on Natural Living Monday!

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