For a few years after college, I lived directly across from one of the major shopping centers in town. Safeway, Office Max, and Rite Aid sat on one side, and about a dozen smaller local shops surrounded those three mainstream businesses, including a Mexican restaurant, a Chinese place, and a dog grooming shop.
When I stopped by the pharmacy and grocery store shortly after Christmas one year, I realized that both places prominently displayed their leftover holiday décor and candy with sale signs boasting 50-75% off the original prices just inside the sliding glass entryway doors. While I assumed that Safeway would feature their products that way, I didn’t realize that Rite Aid would too… And the pharmacy actually offered better deals and a wider selection!
So when Valentine’s Day rolled around, I walked across the street the following afternoon to check out what the pharmacy had put on sale. Since the holiday fell midweek that year, very few people seemed to plan ahead and buy sweets for their significant others… My jaw nearly dropped open when I saw how much leftover candy was displayed in the front of the store!
I grabbed a few items, including a gigantic red heart-shaped box of dark chocolate truffles, which I opened as soon as I arrived back at home. Inside, I found a paper guide that revealed the flavor of each truffle, so I set aside the best flavors for last and started with the “so-so” ones, slowly savoring just one or two each day.
The box included most standard flavored fillings for truffles, like coconut, soft caramel, and peppermint. I also bit into ones with raspberry cream, milk chocolate nougat, and almond liquor fillings…
But my favorites were the ones with pure dark chocolate ganache or edible cookie dough hidden inside of that smooth dark chocolate coating! The former tasted so rich and decadent, while the latter felt sweet and whimsical and fun.
So way too many years later, I decided to recreate (and healthify!) one of the flavors inside of that box… These Healthy Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough Truffles!
They have soft edible eggless snickerdoodle cookie dough fillings, perfectly sweet and cinnamon spiced, with a robe of smooth and decadent dark chocolate on the outside and a sprinkling of flaky sea salt on top. Although hesitant before I bit into that first one many years ago, the cozy cinnamon + rich chocolate + bright pop of salt is such an incredible and irresistible combination!
Yet unlike those original truffles, these contain no heavy cream, oil, refined flour or sugar… And just 29 calories!
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