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.
those really sound amazing! Especially turned into truffles. Thank you for bringing these delights by Foodie Friday
You’re welcome, thanks for the great party every week!
Hi Paula! Most of my ‘recipe challenges’ have come from “happy accidents lately! These look incredible – great job! 🙂
Thank you, Ang!
Your truffles look fantastic and sound absolutely delicious! I have disasters in the kitchen pretty regularly… sometimes they make me never want to cook or bake again, and other times they turn into great inventions! 🙂 These truffles sound wonderful! 🙂
I saw your post on Time to Sparkle and I just had to come visit! I love when mistakes work out like that! I’m going to give these a try!
Thanks for stopping by TaMara! I can’t believe I thought to make the truffles/cake balls!
These look yummy! I’m going to have to saw them and give them a try. I’m stopping by from SITS & I hope you have a great weekend.
Thanks so much for stopping by! I really like these trufles even if it wasn’t the plan in the beginning.
Brilliant! I love when disasters can become triumphs. 🙂 Found you through SITS.
Wow! I wish my kitchen disasters would turn out so beautifully! These look amazingly yummy!
Have a great weekend!
Blessings,
Nici
P.S. I’d love to see these at our “It’s Fall Y’all” party that’s live right now!
Thank you Nici, I’ll go link up!
These look and sound so delicious! I love accidental findings, don’t you? I can’t wait to try these out. They’ve been added to my apple recipe collection. Thanks so much for sharing, Paula! Have a wonderful weekend!
Very creative Paula! I would have never thought of turning apple muffins into truffles!
I don’t really know why it came to me at the time either! 🙂
You sure are a culinary genius! These look awesome, I love how you turned a flop to a fab and a sweet fab at that! Can’t wait to try this. Your pictures look great Paula!! 🙂
Thanks Krista! I’ve been working on my pictures.