Fruit Truffles

Recipe by Pam Aughe, R.D., edibleWOW Recipe Editor

December 15, 2015

Ingredients

  • 1/3 cup salted almonds, toasted and finely ground
  • ½ cup dried plums, pitted
  • ½ cup dried apricots
  • 1 teaspoon fresh orange zest
  • 1 tablespoon fresh orange juice
  • 1 tablespoon Michigan honey
  • 1 and 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 and 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice

Instructions

1.  Place plums and apricots in a food processor; pulse until finely chopped. Add zest, 2 tablespoons ground almonds, juice, honey, cinnamon and allspice; pulse until combined.

2.  Roll the fruit mixture into 20 (1-inch) balls with wet hands. Toss fruit truffles in remaining ground almonds to fully coat. Set aside on wax paper.

3.  Place fruit truffles in decorative paper mini-muffin cups and serve. Refrigerate up to 1 week.

Yield: 20 truffles

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Ingredients

  • 1/3 cup salted almonds, toasted and finely ground
  • ½ cup dried plums, pitted
  • ½ cup dried apricots
  • 1 teaspoon fresh orange zest
  • 1 tablespoon fresh orange juice
  • 1 tablespoon Michigan honey
  • 1 and 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 and 1/8 teaspoon ground allspice