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December 29, 2016

Low-Fat Pomegranate Chocolate Truffles

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New Year’s Eve is not complete without dessert!  But what of new year’s resolutions???  Behold!  Low-fat chocolate truffles made with pomegranate molasses!

Low Fat Pomegranate Chocolate Truffles - This easy recipe uses non-fat cream cheese and pomegranate molasses for a decadent, guilt-free treat!

Pomegranate molasses. Chocolate. WINNING.

That time between Christmas and New Years is awkward foodie time.  There is no other way to put it.  The giddy happiness of Christmas is fading.  There are chocolates and candy and hot cocoa and leftover cinnamon pull-a-part.  And New Year’s resolutions looming . . .

I’m never sure what to do.  Eat the candy so that it’s gone in time for resolutions to kick in?  Avoid it in preparation for resolutions?  Appease my inner squirrel and hide it away in the back of the pantry for that inevitable moment when my resolution resolve fails me???

David and I have been trying to decide what to do for New Year’s Eve.  Watching the ball drop in the comfort of our sweat pants and cuddling on the couch with fuzzybritches?  Raising a glass and laughing with friends, but knowing I would trade my heels for slippers in a heartbeat?  Who knows.  Maybe I’ll show up to the bar in my slippers and sweat pants. My truly incredible friends would laugh, buy me a drink, and love me anyway.

Cheers to a new year!

Low Fat Pomegranate Chocolate Truffles - This easy recipe uses non-fat cream cheese and pomegranate molasses for a decadent, guilt-free treat!

Low Fat Pomegranate Chocolate Truffles - This easy recipe uses non-fat cream cheese and pomegranate molasses for a decadent, guilt-free treat!

 

Low Fat Pomegranate Chocolate Truffles - This easy recipe uses non-fat cream cheese and pomegranate molasses for a decadent, guilt-free treat!

Nutrition & Macros per 1 large truffle:     calories:  172     carbs:  26 g     protein:  1 g     fat:  7 g

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~24 truffles

Low-Fat Pomegranate Chocolate Truffles

1 hr, 15 Prep Time

1 hr, 15 Total Time

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Ingredients

    Pomegranate Molasses:
  • 2 cups 100% pomegranate juice (e.g., Pom)
  • 1/3 cup white sugar
  • 2 1/2 Tablespoons lemon juice
  • Truffles:
  • 4 oz non-fat cream cheese
  • 2 cups powdered sugar (confectioners' sugar)
  • 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 1/2 Tablespoon pomegranate molasses
  • 12 oz dipping chocolate or candy coating (milk)
  • Vanilla Drizzle:
  • 2 oz dipping chocolate or candy coating (vanilla)
  • Pomegranate Drizzle:
  • 1/2 cup powdered sugar (confectioners' sugar)
  • 1-2 Tablespoons pomegranate molasses

Instructions

  1. To make pomegranate molasses: heat pomegranate juice over medium heat in a small saucepan until just simmering. Stir in 1/3 cup white sugar and lemon juice until completely dissolved. Continue to simmer for about an hour, stirring every 10-15 minutes, until it leaves a thin coat on the spatula. It should reduce down to about 3/4 cup molasses. Remove from heat and store in the refrigerator.
  2. Allow cream cheese to come to room temperature completely.
  3. Unwrap cream cheese and pat down with paper towel. (Non-fat cream cheese is more water-y.) Add cream cheese to medium-sized mixing bowl.
  4. Add 1 cup of powdered sugar and mash into the cream cheese mixture until fully incorporated.
  5. Melt chocolate chips in a small, microwave-safe bowl at 50% power for 30 second intervals. Stir after each heating interval. Continue heating and stirring until chocolate is smooth, with no lumps.
  6. Pour melted chocolate into cream cheese mixture. Use a fork to mash together cream cheese and chocolate until fully incorporated.
  7. ONLY after it is fully incorporated, add 1/2 Tablespoon pomegranate molasses and mix completely.
  8. Add remaining 1 cup powdered sugar and mash to incorporate. Mixture should become semi-stiff. (If it is still runny, add powdered sugar 1/4 cup at a time.) Cover with plastic wrap and place in fridge to chill for 15 minutes.
  9. Remove filling from fridge, pinch off walnut-sized amounts, and roll into balls. This truffle filling is more prone to melting, because of the non-fat cream cheese. Your hands will get very messy when rolling. If it is getting too difficult, place filling back in the refrigerator for 10 minutes, then keep rolling.
  10. If you want to roll your truffles in powdered sugar or cocoa powder, do so now, then store in the fridge in an airtight container. If you would like to dip your truffles, continue on.
  11. Place rolled truffles on a tin foil-covered plate and freeze for 20 minutes.
  12. Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
  13. While filling is freezing, melt 12 ounces of dipping milk chocolate or candy coating in a small bowl, deep enough to dip your truffles. (Use the same 50% power, heat-and-stir method.)
  14. Remove truffles from freezer and one-by-one, drop a truffle into the melted chocolate. Roll in chocolate only as long as needed to be fully covered and scoop out with a fork, so that the truffle is sitting on top of the fork. Tap the bottom of the fork onto the edge of the bowl hard enough to shake extra chocolate off the truffle. Tip truffle off of fork onto baking sheet to harden. (See notes.)
  15. After dipping all of the truffles, make vanilla drizzle by melting the vanilla dipping chocolate in the same manner. Dip a fork into the melted vanilla chocolate and let the chocolate fall off your fork while moving back and forth over the truffles.
  16. Make the pomegranate drizzle by placing 1/2 cup powdered sugar in a small bowl. Add pomegranate molasses a 1/2 tablespoon at a time, until the drizzle BARELY runs off the fork. (You want it thicker than the chocolate so that it will harden.) Dip a fork into the pomegranate drizzle and let it fall of the fork while slowly moving back and forth over the truffles.
  17. Once the chocolate is set, completely, store truffles in the fridge in an airtight container for up to 5 days.

Notes

If you're having trouble getting the truffle onto the baking sheet, use a toothpick to slide along the dipping fork and push the truffle onto the sheet. Did your chocolate suddenly get stiff and unstirrable? It has seized on you. (Sad day.) Make sure that the bowl, the spoon, and your hands are 100% dry.

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  2. Erica Schmidt says

    December 31, 2016 at 11:20 am

    These truffles are so pretty! Loving poms lately, definitely need to give this recipe a try, pinning for later!
    Reply
    • Mikaela says

      January 1, 2017 at 9:18 pm

      Thanks, Erica!
      Reply
  3. Marie @ Yay! For Food says

    December 30, 2016 at 7:41 pm

    I love pomegranates and truffles and you put them together! ? I could eat all of them in no time!
    Reply
    • Mikaela says

      January 1, 2017 at 9:17 pm

      Me too!
      Reply
  4. Riva says

    December 30, 2016 at 10:11 am

    Wow! I must try these (might have to go for a long run afterwards, because I'll probably eat the whole batch!). I LOVE pomegranates! What a unique combination.
    Reply
    • Mikaela says

      January 1, 2017 at 9:16 pm

      Definitely a long run to work off the sugar! Pomegranates are the best!
      Reply
  5. Romain says

    December 30, 2016 at 9:48 am

    I don't know if I'd actually call these healthy but I would call them delicious looking. Maybe as healthy as a chocolate truffle can be? Pinned for after my New Year's resolutions are a distant memory (like January 15th or so:-)
    Reply
    • Mikaela says

      January 1, 2017 at 9:16 pm

      Absolutely, Romain! These probably don't make my healthy list, but they are as healthy as can be when making chocolate truffles??? (See the justification skills going on right here???)
      Reply
  6. Joyce says

    December 30, 2016 at 9:05 am

    I never would have thought the word truffle and healthy would go hand in hand until I saw this post. Wow! Tart, sweet and healthy. I totally can see myself eating this whole batch myself, maybe not so healthy to do that...must learn to share. Cozy new year ftw. Nothing but pajamas and slippers allowed in this household as well. I know the feeling all too well about the Christmas feeling between then and the new years but this year I'm not going to fight it. I'm going to eat ALL THE SWEETS! No regrets until 2017! haha Have a fantastic new year!
    Reply
    • Mikaela says

      January 1, 2017 at 9:14 pm

      Hahaha. Joyce, I approve! I even took an extra day - my resolutions don't kick in til tomorrow.
      Reply
  7. Elizabeth says

    December 30, 2016 at 8:59 am

    I didn't know pomegranate molasses were a thing! These look amazing!
    Reply
    • Mikaela says

      January 1, 2017 at 9:13 pm

      Thanks, Elizabeth! Pomegranate molasses is a recent discovery of mine! I'm obsessed!
      Reply

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