These vegan chocolate peanut butter date truffles are dangerously addictive! Made with just 3 healthy ingredients, they’re the perfect little candy for Christmas trays and holiday gatherings.
Stuff, my mouth with vegan chocolate peanut butter date truffles, fa la la la la, la la la LA.
Guys, I don’t even know where to begin with these. They’re out of control. So poppable, sweet, slightly salty, super fun. Everything we need around Christmastime, am I right? I’m right.
Growing up, my mom always put together (and still does, cause she’s amazing) Christmas trays of sweets for friends and neighbors – think multiple kinds of cookies, candied nuts, good stuff like that. I loved helping bake and portion out goodies for each one. My mama always had a great variety on her trays, and the key was that most of it was easy to package and easy to eat. I wanted to create some sort of small, candy-like sweet for Christmas time, and oh my goodness these vegan chocolate peanut butter date truffles exceeded ALL of my expectations.
Vegan chocolate peanut butter date truffles are made with just three ingredients. I know, homemade candy with three easy ingredients, and you probably already have all three on hand!
Ingredients for vegan chocolate peanut butter date truffles
- Medjool dates: gooey, sweet dates are the base of the truffles. You’ll slice them to remove the pit, but being careful not to cut all the way through so you can add filling.
- Peanut butter: make sure to get unsweetened, oil-free nut butters to avoid a lot of added junk that’s often in store-bought nut butters. The only ingredient should be peanuts and maybe a bit of salt.
- Vegan chocolate chips: I like the PASCHA unsweetened or Lily’s stevia-sweetened chips, but use any vegan chocolate chips you like.
Tips for vegan chocolate peanut butter date truffles
- Carefully slice the dates to remove the pits. If your dates still have the pits in them, carefully slice the date length-wise and remove the pit, but make making sure not to cut all the way through the date so that you can add the filling.
- Coat with chocolate and freeze to set. After you coat the truffles in chocolate, the truffles need to freeze for at least 1 hour so the chocolate can set.
- Store in the fridge or freezer. These are amazing fresh, but if you have leftovers, store in the fridge or freezer. I personally think they’re’ best straight out of the fridge, but you do you (really there’s no way to make these NOT good).
I can’t think of a better addition to your holiday treat trays! Ours may or may not have made it out to friends, because we’re chocolate + PB + date addicts and are horrible people who don’t share. No worries though, multiple batches will be happening over and over until Christmas is gone for another year.
Do you guys gift sweets to loved ones? I want to hear your traditions!
Xo,
Sara
Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Date Truffles
Ingredients
- 12 medjool dates
- 1/2 tsp nut butter for each date
- 1/2 cup vegan chocolate chips
Instructions
- Carefully cut each date length-wise, only halfway through, and remove the pit.
- Fill each date with nut butter and place on a parchment lined plate, and chill in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.
- After the dates have chilled, melt the vegan chocolate chips – I just use the microwave, going in 15 second bursts and stirring between each until all the chips are melted
- Roll the dates in the melted chocolate and place back onto the parchment lined plate, and freeze for 1 hour.
Can we just go ahead and rename these BITES OF HEAVEN!! Omg this is the perfect combo, I cannot imagine anything I’d rather smother in chocolate than peanut butter + dates. And loving that you went with the unsweetened chocolate since dates are already so sweet naturally. Dangerously good and so pretty with that swirly cross-section too????
Haha Natalie you summed up all of my thoughts/excitement about these perfectly! I just love them for this time of year when we want to stay on the healthy side but still feel super indulgent, and I feel like chocolate + PB always gets that job done. Have a fabulous week!
Hi! This look amazing! I was thinking of making them to gift some friends for christmas and was wondering how long do they hold out of the freezer? Wanted to put some in mason jars. What do you think? 🙂
Hi, Sara! Thanks so much for the kind words 🙂 I think that’s a great idea! I haven’t tested how long these will stay frozen once you take them out, but I would think you’d be okay if you got them all in the jars, then froze those until you were ready to take them to wherever they needed to go. I hope your friends love them!