Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and that means our home will be filled with chocolate. This may sound like a good thing to most people, but most people aren’t a must-eat-the-entire-box-in-one-sitting-type of chocoholic like I am. Honestly, if there is chocolate in the house it will be gone in one go. This has made my quest for high quality, healthier chocolate alternatives a serious part of my life.

There are many great vegan chocolate brands out there with beautifully packaged truffles and treats, but they are also as expensive as they are decadent, so I started to make my own. I failed horribly at first, but after a few rounds of homemade chocolate bars and truffles I think I have this amateur chocolateur-thing down pat.

Valentine’s Day this year will include these goji berry-coated chocolate truffles as a rich and decadent pre-dinner dessert. My pre-dinner you ask? Well, because ir’s Valentines Day and I am an adult, and I want dessert first… how’s that for a mature train of thought?

I’m using coconut milk to add a milk chocolate flavor to the dark chocolate chips—milk chocolate is the better of the chocolate flavours, right? To give them some depth I love to coat them in ground goji berries. The goji berries add a sweeter dark chocolate flavor, but also a pretty pinkish red tone perfect for V Day celebrations. Homemade vegan chocolate truffles with a side of vegan ice cream? Yes Please!



