Chia Truffles

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Makes 
10

Prep Time
20 minutes

Cooking Time
–

Total Time
20 minutes

Difficulty
Easy

Ingredients

Acai/Beetroot and Ginger
– 1/3 cup tahini
– 1/4 cup agave or maple syrup
– 3tbsp acai powder/2 tbsp beetroot powder and 1 tbsp ginger powder
– 1/2 (50g) chia seeds (blitzed into a flour)
– 2,5 tbsp sunflower seed flour
– 2, 5 tbsp almond flour
-2,5tbsp Cacao powder (you can use cocoa powder, just add an extra tsp)
* For a protein boost, add 1 x 33 Wazoogles Superfood Unicorn Berry Protein blend and 1 tbsp of water

Method

Method:
1. Place all ingredients into a large bowl and stir with a metal spoon until the mixture is smooth and all ingredient are incorporated.
2. Take a heaped tsp of mixture and roll into a ball. The truffles are very soft so don’t worry if they are not perfectly round. Repeat this until all the mixture has been rolled.
3. Place into the fridge for 15 minutes to allow the truffles to become more firm.
4. Roll in beetroot or cacao powder and store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week.
Other flavour combinations:
Chocolate Hazelnut truffles:
-Substitute the Almond and sunflower seed flour for toasted Hazelnut flour.
-Do not add acai powder and increase the Cacao to 5-6 tbsp.
-Roll the truffles in chopped roasted hazelnuts
Peanut butter and Vanilla truffles:
-Substitute the almond flour for peanuts blitzed into flour and the tahini for peanut butter.
-Do not add the acai powder and add 1tsp of vanilla powder or 2 vanilla pods seeds.
-Roll the truffles in chopped roasted hazelnuts
* For a protein boost, add 1 x 33 Wazoogles Superfood Vanilla Sky Protein blend and 1 tbsp of water