White Chocolate Truffles are the ideal no-bake dessert for Christmas or Valentine’s Day. Who am I kidding? I’d eat them year-round!
Ingredients
These simple ingredients come together to make a pretty and impressive dessert that’s the perfect addition to cookie trays and holiday spreads.
- Sweetened Condensed Milk – This helps to give the truffles their creamy texture and sweet flavor.
- White Chocolate Chips – You can have white chocolate truffles without the white chocolate! These are easy to melt and make up the base of the truffles.
- Butter – Butter helps to make the truffles smooth and decadent.
- Toasted Pecans – Chop these finely for the perfect coating.
- Cinnamon – This spice gives a warm flavor to the truffles.
- Nutmeg – Nutmeg brings subtle citrus and nuttiness to the table.
- Cooking Spray – This helps to keep the chocolate from sticking.
Variations
Switch these truffles up to make your own signature version.
- Chocolate – Drizzle some melted dark chocolate or milk chocolate over the truffles.
- Cranberries – Fold in dried cranberries for bright color and tart flavor.
- Coconut – Roll the truffles in shaved coconut.
- Citrus – Stir lemon zest into the chocolate for a burst of citrusy flavor.
How to Make White Chocolate Truffles
This easy truffle recipe is easy to make with just a handful of ingredients. Creamy white chocolate is rolled in toasted pecans, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
- Make the white chocolate filling. Add the white chocolate chips, sweetened condensed milk, and butter to a heavy saucepan and stir together until smooth, thick, and glossy.
- Cool. Pour the chocolate mixture into a baking dish prepared with cooking spray and allow it to come to room temperature.
- Mix together the coating. Add the pecans, cinnamon, and nutmeg to a small shallow bowl and stir together.
- Assemble. Form the truffles and roll them in the spiced pecan mixture.
- Store and serve. Store the truffles in the refrigerator and allow them to come to room temperature before serving.
Storage and Freezing
You can easily store thee truffles and keep them around for entertaining or a quick sweet snack. You can keep them at room temperature for a few days in an airtight container or pop them in the fridge or freezer.
How to Store White Chocolate Truffles
Keep these truffles in an airtight container in a single layer (or separated by parchment paper) for up to 2 weeks.
Can I Freeze Truffles?
Flash-freeze these truffles on a baking sheet before packaging them in resealable freezer bags and freezing them for up to 3 months.
Some questions you might have about chocolate truffles
Not the fungus you find in the ground! LOL. A chocolate truffle is a little ball made of fudgy, rich chocolate and rolled in even more goodies.
You can, but be very careful, it is easy to burn the chocolate. I recommend keeping a very close eye on a heavy bottom saucepan or using a double boiler.
Yes and no. Classic fudge is made with heavy cream, sugar and vanilla extract, but hack recipes for fudge is also made with sweetened condensed milk, so yes.
I like store them in the fridge, but they can get hard. So if you do, allow them some time to come up to room temperature before serving.
I use a melon baller or cookie dough scoop. Similar to an ice cream scoop, but smaller.
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White Chocolate Truffle Recipe
Equipment
Ingredients
- 14 ounces sweetened condensed milk
- 3 cups white chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon butter
- 1/2 cup toasted pecans , chopped
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- Cooking Spray
Instructions
- In a heavy saucepan combine the sweetened condensed milk, white chocolate chips and 1 teaspoon of the butter. Melt the mixture over low heat, stirring constantly until thick and glossy, approximately 10 minutes.
- Coat a glass baking dish or pie plate with cooking spray. Spread the hot chocolate mixture into the bottom and allow to cool to room temperature.
- Combine the chopped pecans, cinnamon and nutmeg in small bowl, mix.
- Using your hands, form the cooled chocolate mixture into 1 1/2 inch balls and immediately roll in the pecan mixture. You might have to pack it down a little to make sure it sticks.
- Truffles can be stored in the refrigerator, but will get pretty hard, so give them time to come up to room temperture before serving.
- If you've tried this recipe, come back and let us know how you liked it in the comments or star ratings.
Nutrition
Can these be made in advance and frozen for Christmas? If so, how long will they last in the freezer?
You should be able to! I would say about 3 months if wrapped properly to protect from freezer burn.
These were so good with the cinnamon and toasted pecans…gave them much more flavor than just plain white chocolate. Everybody loved them!
These truffles are so good! Everyone definitely needs to make them throughout the year!