From Disaster to Decadence: Apple Sauce Truffles
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From Disaster to Decadence: Apple Sauce Truffles
Have you ever had a kitchen failure? If not, you’re lucky or very skilled. I make mistakes all the time. Most of the time when I have a recipe fail, it’s from me trying to do too many things at one time and letting the pot boil over, or forgetting the bread in the oven. You can recover from some mistakes by thinking outside the box; you can go from disaster to decadence and no one has to know!
Apple Sauce Truffles
How to turn a kitchen mistake into a culinary genius!
or what I’ll call this boo-boo “From Disaster to Decadence: Apple Sauce Truffles”
You see, I made Oatmeal Apple Muffins for the Get Your Chef On Challenge. This is the second time I’ve had a fail when baking for a competition. My Oatmeal Apple Muffins were good, but they looked terrible! My muffins rarely every puff up in the center and are pretty little dome-shaped beauties that you see in bakeries and delis! I really hate that too. I’ve worked on perfecting my muffin recipes in the past, but can’t consistently have them puff up like I want.
Not wanting to submit flat-topped muffins to this prestigious challenge, I turned them into Apple Sauce Truffles! I know, genius! 😉
Apple Sauce Truffles Notes
- You can make these as muffins and they are fabulous and will make a nutritious and flavor breakfast.
- Or, turn them into truffles, and they are even better!
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Decadent Apple Sauce Truffles
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 large eggs
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 3/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1/2 cup oil
- 1/3 to 1/2 cup ready-made cream cheese frosting
- 16 oz white chocolate candy melts
- 2 tsp Crisco shortening
- English Toffee Baking Bits or sprinkles of your choice for top, optional
Instructions
For the muffins:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl combine flour, oats, sugar, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. In another bowl, beat the egg. Add milk, applesauce, and oil to egg and whisk until well combined. Add egg mixture to flour mixture and stir until just combined. Scoop into muffin tin and bake 20 to 22 minutes or until light brown and center is set. Remove from the oven and let cool.
For truffles:
- In a large bowl, break up muffins with a fork. Stir in 1/3 cup frosting. You want the mixture to be a little dry so don't add all the frosting at once. Work with it and see if you need all of it. Add remaining frosting if needed. When everything is well combined, roll into small balls and place them on a sheet of waxed paper. I use a small ice cream scoop to get even balls. Place in the freezer for an hour to set.
- Melt chocolate and vegetable shortening in a microwave at 30-second intervals. Stir until smooth. Stick a toothpick in the center of the ball where it is secure. Dip ball in chocolate then place it on a sheet of waxed paper or parchment paper. Top with sprinkles if desired. Allow chocolate to cool and harden for about 1 hour. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information given is an automatic calculation and can vary based on the exact products you use and changes you make to the recipe. If these numbers are important to you, I recommend calculating them yourself.
Oh Yum!
Heaven to Truffles… you have done it yet again chick! WOW oh WOW! Great photos!
Thanks Jen!!
Maybe I missed it, but at what temp do you cook the muffins at? This recipe looks delicious.
Hi Kelly at 350 degrees for 20 to 22 minutes. I have left that out by mistake, thanks for telling me.
Now you are cooking on the front burner girl!!! Great idea – and they are pin worthy 🙂
Thanks Deb!
I have TWO words for you, sweet Paula…. CULINARY. GENIUS!
I once dropped a 3 layer carrot cake with the world’s most expensive cream cheese frosting (ingredients to make it purchased with the last $12 in my bank account!) upside down onto the kitchen floor… the same kitchen floor that hadn’t been mopped in a week, and the same kitchen floor that had little kitty paw prints all over it.
Did I flip it back upright and eat it? HECK YES, I DID! Well, I scraped off the outer layer of cream cheese frosting on it first…. I just don’t like getting cat hair stuck between my teeth! 😉
lol! I would have done the same thing! I had a Pound Cake stick so bad once, there’s was no way to salvage it so I made a large trifle out of it. It was Christmas, now everyone wants me to bring that trifle every year!! I didn’t even tell them!
A very clever disguise, indeed! 🙂 I’ll take anything dipped in white chocolate!
Ain’t that the truth!! 😉
These look fantastic, Paula! Here’s to kitchen disasters — they rarely ever look this good!
You are right, but I had incentive to make these look pretty good 🙂 Usually, I would have just eaten the flat top muffins.
Sometimes our mistakes turn into the best recipes! This is very creative though, you always see truffles with all kinds of really rich flavors, but never applesauce. I really like what you came up with 🙂
Thanks so much! Even my non-dessert eating husband likes them 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
Well Paula that truly is a genius idea! I love stories like these because they inspire me to think outside the box! Fantastic idea!
Thanks Tanya! I’m not always creative, but happy I was this time 🙂
Girl, super smart change up! I love this idea of applesauce truffles! I’ll bet this are yummy! Triumph! 🙂 Pinning and happy Tuesday!
Cindy, I look forward to your comments every morning! You must be a morning person too 🙂
I had to be creative, I didn’t have time to make another dessert. I can’t stop eating them, sending them to my boys’ teachers today!