Chocolate orange truffles made with Divine Chocolate dark chocolate and Stonyfield yogurt instead of cream? These may be decadent but I feel no guilt whatsoever!

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, but you still have time to make your beloved a homemade gift. And what could be more romantic than chocolate?

But what if your beloved is health-conscious? Or possesses extremely high ethical standards? Lucky for you, today’s recipe for chocolate orange yogurt truffles is healthier than your typical truffle, being made with yogurt instead of heavy cream and anti-oxidant-rich dark chocolate.

Moreover, I used these 70% Dark Chocolate bars from Divine Chocolate to make my truffles. Divine Chocolate is co-owned by a 85,000-member farmer cooperative in Ghana that supplies the company with the fair-trade-certified cocoa that is used in all of its chocolate bars. That will reassure your super-ethical sweetie.

To make truffles, one usually begins by heating cream and pouring it over chocolate. What I did instead to make these yogurt truffles was to heat Stonyfield whole milk yogurt over low heat just until it felt quite hot to the touch. You don’t want to heat yogurt too much or too rapidly or the whey could separate.

I poured the warm yogurt over my finely chopped chocolate and stirred until the chocolate was melted and the mixture completely smooth. (If your chocolate doesn’t melt all the way, pop the bowl into the microwave for about 10 seconds and stir again.) To that mixture, I added a small amount of softened butter. That is all you need for these truffles: a total of three ingredients!

However, you can also get very fancy and flavor your truffles a million different ways by adding spices, fruit juice or jam, or even alcoholic spirits.

I decided to flavor my truffles with orange because it is a great time of year for citrus and chocolate and orange is such a heavenly combination. To achieve that orange flavor, I added some orange zest to the yogurt when I heated it on the stove. And then stirred in some freshly squeezed orange juice with the butter.

Once you have mixed all of your ingredients, you chill the chocolate and yogurt mixture for a few hours until it is firm enough to scoop into balls. Because these truffles are made with yogurt instead of cream, they will have a slightly softer texture than your typical truffle, as well as a tangier flavor, both of which I enjoy.

To finish your truffles, you can roll them in chopped nuts, sprinkles or simply dust with cocoa powder.

You may be thinking that without cream, how good can these truffles be? Trust me, they are delicious. My chocolate yogurt truffles have the silky smooth texture that a good truffle should and because we used such a rich, dark chocolate with 70% cocoa solids, the flavor is intense.

I’m not saying that you should never indulge in a chocolate truffle made with heavy cream. Rather, I’m saying, if you can make a fabulously indulgent treat just a teeny bit less indulgent, without sacrificing flavor, why not do it?

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Chocolate Orange Yogurt Truffles

Yield: One dozen truffles

Ingredients

• 7 oz (two bars) Divine 70% Dark Chocolate, finely chopped
• 1/2 cup Stonyfield whole milk yogurt
• Zest and juice of one orange
• 1 TB butter, softened
• Cocoa powder for dusting

Instructions

1. Finely chop the chocolate and place in a heatproof bowl.
2. Place the yogurt and the zest of the orange in a small saucepan and heat over low heat until yogurt feels hot to the touch. (Do not allow to boil.)
3. Pour the hot yogurt over the chocolate in the bowl. Stir until smooth. (If the yogurt was not hot enough to melt the chocolate completely, place the bowl in the microwave and heat in 10-second increments until melted.)
4. Add the butter and 1 TB of orange juice and stir until incorporated.
5. Chill the chocolate and yogurt mixture until firm, about two hours.
6. Scoop the chocolate into balls and place on a lined baking sheet
7. Dust with cocoa powder.
8. Keep chilled until ready to serve.

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Full disclosure time: As a member of the Stonyfield Clean Plate Club, I received yogurt and Divine Chocolate free of charge for purposes of creating this recipe. I have not received any compensation and as always, all opinions expressed herein are entirely my own.