Healthy No Bake Peanut Butter Truffles
on Dec 23, 2019, Updated Apr 06, 2024
These No Bake Peanut Butter Truffles are perfect for the holidays. Naturally gluten free, vegan, and so simple to make.
These healthy no bake peanut butter truffles are one of the Christmas desserts that I can’t wait to make this year!
These delicious little bites are gluten free, vegan, and taste like a buckeye.
No worries if you have never made a truffle before, it is really so simple.
All you need is a few ingredients and around 20 minutes to make this delicious dessert for your family this December!
Ingredients to make peanut butter truffles
- all natural creamy peanut butter: the only ingredients should be peanuts and salt
- pure maple syrup
- sugar
- coconut flour
- chocolate chips
- coconut oil
- salt
How to make Healthy no bake peanut butter truffles
Step 1: use a mixer to beat together peanut butter, maple syrup, coconut palm sugar, and salt for the filling.
Step 2: add in the coconut flour slowly, until the mixture is not wet but not very dry.
It should be easy to roll the balls without the mixture sticking to your hands.
This will depend on your peanut butter texture how much flour to add.
I used ¼ cup of coconut flour as my peanut butter was drippy.
Step 3: Roll the truffle filling into small balls and place on a wax paper or parchment paper lined baking sheet.
Freeze for 5 minutes to chill slightly.
Step 4: While the peanut butter balls are chilling, melt the coconut oil and chocolate in the microwave (be careful not to burn).
Once melted, stir in the salt to combine.
Step 5: Drop the peanut butter balls one at a time into the chocolate, and use a spoon to drip the chocolate over the balls.
Use a fork to get the balls back out and onto the cookie sheet. (look up a tutorial for necessary, but it’s really quite easy!)
Step 6: Freeze or refrigerate the peanut butter truffles until the chocolate is set.
One note is that these will melt at room temperature, so it’s best to eat them straight from the fridge or freezer!
These no bake peanut butter truffles will be perfect for a Christmas dessert!
These truffles are super rich and indulgent and just one is the perfect dessert for me.
Just one of these little bites will satisfy my dessert craving, but I bet you can’t have just one!
Trust me, I’ve been there.
I almost don’t even want to share these with any guests!
To me, there is just nothing better than peanut butter + chocolate.
Pretty much a match made in heaven.
These are one of our favorite dairy free desserts, along with these Dairy Free Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Whether they look pretty or not, they are so delicious that no one will care about how perfect your truffle skills are.
No Bake Recipes
- Chocolate Sea Salt Pretzel Bark
- Almond Butter Cups
- White Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls
- Ultimate Vegan Peanut Butter Fudge
- Vegan Peanut Butter Cups
- Healthy Peanut Butter No Bake Cookies
- Dark Chocolate Pumpkin Truffles
These babies are served best straight from the freezer.
They’re really so simple to make and no baking required.
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No Bake Peanut Butter Truffles
Ingredients
For the truffle filling:
- ¾ cup all natural creamy peanut butter
- ¼ cup pure maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon coconut palm sugar
- ¼ cup coconut flour, see instructions before adding
- ⅛ teaspoon sea salt
For the Chocolate Shell:
- 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
- ½ teaspoon coconut oil
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
Instructions
- Use a mixer to beat together peanut butter, maple syrup, coconut palm sugar, and salt for the filling.
- Add in the coconut flour slowly, until the mixture is not wet but not very dry. It should be easy to roll the balls without the mixture sticking to your hands. This will depend on your peanut butter texture how much flour to add. I used ¼ cup of coconut flour as my peanut butter was drippy.
- Roll the filling into small balls and place them onto a cookie sheet
- Freeze for 5 minutes to chill slightly
- Melt the coconut oil and chocolate in the microwave (be careful not to burn)
- Once melted, stir in the salt
- Drop the peanut butter balls into the chocolate, and use a spoon to drip the chocolate over the balls.
- Use a fork and toothpick to get the chocolate dipped truffles back out and onto the cookie sheet
- Freeze the truffles until the chocolate is set.
- Store leftovers in the fridge or freezer in an airtight container
Really easy to make and yummy, but this is only a vegan recipe if you get semi-sweet chocolate chips that are dairy free – the typical Nestle bag contains milk and won’t cut it. From what I can see, this isn’t directly stated in the recipe.
Can I sub almond butter for the peanut butter?
Yes! That will work just fine.
so delicious! we used almond flour as well instead of coconut, since we didn’t have that… and dark chocolate, because I can’t do dairy, and they were still amazing! thanks for the great recipe.
So glad you enjoyed the recipe Kellie!
Perfect Christmas dessert!
These were delicious! I’m not really a fan of peanut butter & chocolate but these were great! I used pb w/out sugar. And I probably could have made a chocolate sauce with cocoa powder (or raw cacao powder ) mixed with melted coconut oil & maple syrup – but just used 3/4 cup normal chocolate chips with 1/4 cup butterscotch chips! Just like scotcheroos!
So glad you enjoyed the recipe!
i followed the recipe as is and these came out so delicious! thinking of subbing the choc chips with vegan ones to make this a little less fatty.
thanks for sharing!
I have used vegan chocolate chips and they work well!
I used almond flour instead of coconut flour and these came out delicious!
So glad you enjoyed the recipe! I’ll have to try it with almond flour too!
Hi there,
This recipe looks so tasty!
I see that you have an asterisk next to the coconut flour that says see recipe notes, but there’s nothing in the recipe notes area. Is it possible to substitute regular flour for coconut flour?
Thanks so much!
Hi Emily,
Sorry for the confusion! I meant to say see instructions, not notes, as you may not need quite 1/4 cup of flour. As far as the flour substitution, I don’t think regular flour would work. Traditional peanut butter truffles use a lot of powdered sugar, so the coconut flour is helping us replace that to make it healthier. The texture of coconut flour is very light whereas normal flour is a lot heavier. Hope that helps!
Thanks that is very helpful! I was wondering the same thing. Can’t wait to try these out.
let me know how you like them!!
@Allison, hey just wanted to let you know, regular all purpose flour is not safe to eat raw.
The recipe looks delicious, Joy! Can’t wait to try.