Healthy Dark Chocolate Truffles

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I'm so excited that it is finally 2014!  A brand new year to do great things!

So, for my first great act of 2014, I made some healthy dark chocolate truffles.  Amazing, I know.

I actually didn't mean for these to be healthy at all.  But, when I got home from the grocery store, I realized that I had forgotten my heavy cream.  Oops.  I didn't let that stop me from whipping up a delicious, rich dessert.  I found a substitution for it.

SKIM MILK AND CORNSTARCH.

Don't hate on it I know it sounds gross but it's actually good okay?

Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:

• 8oz 70% dark chocolate (or whatever percentage you want it doesn't really matter)
• 1/2 cup skim milk
• 1 tbsp cornstarch
• 4 tbsp cocoa powder

Directions:

• Ferociously mix the cornstarch and the skim milk together until it thickens a bit. (about 3 mins)
• Melt the chocolate and milk mixture in the microwave. (about 2 minutes and 15 seconds)
• Refrigerate for 1 hour.
• Lay cocoa powder out on a pice of parchment paper.
• Form chocolate mixture into balls and coat with the cocoa powder.

Voila!  You have yourself some delicious truffles!

Some extra ideas for incredible truffles:

• coat your truffles in nuts or stir nuts into the chocolate mixture after melting
• add dried fruit into it

Enjoy!