Lavender Cream Chocolate Truffles - chocolate ganache truffle infused with fragrant lavender - an easy recipe that always has impressive and tasty results!
Welcome to dark chocolate week! Even better, two weeks!
I think this is my favorite Meatless Monday project yet, and it was something I made for my mom for Mother's Day. Mom loves lavender, both the color and the scent. When I was little she had a tin of lavender pastilles candy that intrigued me.
We had the family over on Saturday to celebrate (forecast to be a much nicer day than Sunday, and we wanted to grill and be outside). I wanted to create a delicious dessert mom would love, and wanted to use dark chocolate.
The best thing about this recipe? Three ingredients total and an impressive result!
Dessert was a warm brownie with ice cream, topped with a truffle. I made the brownies and ice cream also. Recipes for another day...
More dark chocolate recipes:
- dark chocolate superfood bark
- triple chocolate truffles
- chocolate dipped marcona butter cookies
- dark chocolate apricot truffles
- chocolate tahini shortbread bars
- ginger wasabi chocolate skulls
- salted double chocolate chili cookies
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Lavender Truffles
chocolate ganache truffle infused with fragrant lavender - an easy recipe that always has impressive and tasty results!
Ingredients
- 8 ounces dark chocolate, divided
- ½ cup full fat canned coconut milk
- 2 ½ tablespoons culinary lavender, chopped fine (see note)
Instructions
- Without shaking, open can of coconut milk. Spoon out ½ cup of the thick portion at top of can for this recipe.
- Chop 4 ounces chocolate.
- In saucepan, bring coconut milk and lavender to a boil, reduce to simmer and stir continually for several minutes.
- Remove from heat, strain cream into bowl to remove lavender.
- Return infused cream to saucepan over lowest heat.
- Add chopped chocolate, whisk until smooth. Remove from heat, cool.
- Cover and transfer to refrigerator to thicken (1 hour).
- Chop remaining 4 ounces chocolate, and melt over lowest heat possible, stirring constantly and rapidly.
- Spoon a small amount into each mold, and using a small paintbrush, coat the mold completely. Place in refrigerator until set.
- Fill each mold with lavender ganache filling, leaving room at the top to seal with more chocolate.
- Reheat remaining chocolate and fill each mold, covering the filling completely. Tap molds on counter to remove any bubbles, return to refrigerator to set.
Notes
*While this seems like a large measurement of lavender, (and if you taste the infused coconut cream it is strong), once you add the dark chocolate the result is a subtle hint of lavender flavor.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
18Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 81Total Fat: 5gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 1gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 4mgCarbohydrates: 7gFiber: 1gSugar: 6gProtein: 1g
nutrition calculations results vary by calculator, are for informational purposes only, and are not intended to replace medical advice or treatment.
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Avia says
Yum! and brownie recipe please! Is that a cheesecake type of brownie in the pic?
Kristina Sloggett says
hi Avia! the cheesecake brownie recipe will be coming soon! 🙂
Allie says
I'm going to have to look at your amazing chocolate recipes for TWO WEEKS?? This is going to kill me. In a good way. I love the smell of lavender, but I had no idea you could cook with it!
Kristina Sloggett says
I know, such a horrible fate, two whole weeks of chocolate...
Abby @ The Frosted Vegan says
Could these BE any cuter? I'm just a cat momma, but I wouldn't mind having these any day of the week : )
Kristina Sloggett says
see? I'm just a dachshund mama... we deserve chocolate too 🙂
Heather @ Better With Veggies says
Dang girl - these look amazing!! I love your chocolate creations - feel free to ship some my way. 🙂
Kristina Sloggett says
thanks, my friend! I sure love to make these 🙂
Kate@Diethood says
WHOA!!! <---- (in a Joey from "Blossom" voice)
I'm a Momma... I can handle a dozen of those, too, you know! 😉
Beautiful!!!!
Kristina Sloggett says
you crack me up (seriously laughed out loud at the WHOA) 😀 I WISH I could send a dozen your way, Mama!! XO
Heather (Where's the Beach) says
I love the smell and color of lavender as well. Now if only I could grow it!
Kristina Sloggett says
right? I've never tried, it might be easy?
Andrea - Chocolate and Beyond says
Oh my goodness - these look amazing! And your ingredients list is so simple too. I absolutely would love to make chocolates and truffles more but I live on my own, so then I would eat them all! I am so glad to have discovered your site.
Kristina Sloggett says
Andrea, there are only two of us here 😉 I give these to friends often, but many treats end up in the freezer for a quick treat later on 🙂
VERY good to "meet" you today, you should join us for our Meatless Mondays A to Z - we have a lot of fun! this week is dark chocolate week, and each ingredient lasts 2 weeks - today we create a new original recipe with the ingredient, next week we make someone else's recipe (linking to the original), usually another MMAZ participant from the week before!
Laura @ Sprint 2 the Table says
As soon as I saw what the ingredient was this week I was excited to see your recipe. And this reminded me about the wasabi chocolate. Again. How have I not made those yet?! I blame my fear of making candy.
Kristina Sloggett says
I know, this has to be my favorite ingredient. and making candy is SO VERY easy, really! several steps, but the main thing really? melt the chocolate on the LOWEST temperature on the stove. it's really fun, you should definitely try! (maybe for next week's recipe...?) 😉
Sarena (The Non-Dairy Queen) says
I my goodness! This looks amazing! I bet your mother was in heaven!
Kristina Sloggett says
we all were. 🙂
Abby says
I like dark chocolate and think your truffles look beautiful, but I've never been into "flowery" tastes (lavender, rose, etc.) However, those chocolate tahini shortbread bars? I would like to put in an order for delivery, please and thank you 🙂
Kristina Sloggett says
I know, I want more of those too...