Bittersweet Treats

I saw this recipe on the fabulous I Love Baking SA page and gave it a try. They called this recipe Chocolate Truffles, but as it was quite delightfully bitter, I reckon Cocoa Truffles would be more fitting… 

Ingredients:

1000ml (4 cups) rolled oats

315ml (1¼ cups) white sugar

125ml cocoa

250ml butter

30ml strong coffee powder

5ml vanilla essence

30g baking chocolate, melted

30ml peanut butter

80ml desiccated coconut flakes

Method:

Mix all the ingredients (except coconut) together in a mixing bowl

Roll mixture into small balls and then roll the ball in the coconut

Refrigerate for at least 2 hours before eating

  

The ingredients

 

Mix it all up

Making the balls

You'll have to squash them into shape

Roll the balls in coconut flakes

and enjoy...

Unlike my uber indulgent previous cookies, this recipe is not nearly as rich and sweet but rather quite an interesting mix of the cocoa and oats – somehow to me it just tastes healthier. (Thus allowing myself to have just one more)