One Sweet Surprise

One Sweet Surprise

Barb: we have a special gift for you...but it's a surprise! Follow the steps below to dazzle your friends and family when they arrive at your home on New Year's Eve.

If you use the prescribed ingredients, the result will be surprisingly delicious AND healthier than any New Year's delicacy you've ever eaten.

We’ll start with three ingredients:  butter, almond milk (or regular milk), and Coconut Palm Sugar.   Please don’t substitute real sugar. It would break our hearts if you go and increase the glycemic level by 300%.

We'll bring this mixture to a boil and cook for five minutes, stirring constantly.  Don't even think about walking away from the pan...just think of the calories you'll burn with all this stirring.

When five minutes of cooking and stirring are up, we'll add the secret ingredient.

(If we had shown you this picture in the beginning, we're certain you would have moved on by now. But trust us...this is going to work out just fine.)


 
Dump half a can of black beans into a bowl, and mash them to smithereens.

The goal is to pulverize the beans to such smoothness that they're undetectable. Nothing like a lingering black bean.



Now we'll use our whisk and blend the beans into our cooked mixture until the lumps are gone.

Next, we're going to add two chocolate bars. (See? Things are starting to look up!) Just break the chocolate into large pieces...it will melt quickly.

Hi Matthew.  Wait a minute...how did THAT get in there?

Where were we? (Shiny objects and cute babies tend to throw us off). Ah...yes. Now we're going to add some vanilla and toasted pecans. 

Let the chocolate mixture cool to room temperature. Then refrigerate for about an hour, or until it's firm enough to shape into balls.


Using a tablespoon, remove one scoop at a time and level with a knife.  

(Katie, you need to work on those cuticles).


Using a second spoon, remove the chocolate mixture from the tablespoon.

Shape the chocolate into balls and roll  'em  in finely chopped pecans, pistachios or almonds.

And.....da da da DAAAAAAA!

The best Fudge Truffles (with Black Beans) you'll ever eat!

Recipe makes 36 truffles. (Less the one you couldn't wait to eat).

You can probably tell by now that we really like our sweets....especially chocolate. HOWEVER, it's important to note that we only make goodies like these once in a while...and when we DO make them, we only eat ONE. (Okay, two). But that's it!

Also, you might be thinking, Truffles are perfect just the way they are. Why did you have to go and add all those weird ingredients?

Great question. The answer is that the extra nuts, black beans, and coconut palm sugar bring the glycemic level way down. Without boring you, that basically means we can have our truffles and eat them too, without spiking our blood sugar. (Sustained spikes in blood sugar can increase the risk of diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and other unpleasantries we'd rather avoid).

So Happy New Year everyone, and enjoy your TWO truffles! If you're the kind of person who likes exact measurements (good grief, you people are needy), you can see the recipe for Fudge Truffles here.

Love, Katie and Barb

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