Easy carrot cake truffles with white chocolate

If you love carrot cake, you’re going to adore these delicious carrot cake truffles. The idea of these truffles was more or less spontaneous as during carrot cake testing a couple failed (yes that happens sometimes!) and we were left with lots of carrot cakes in pieces. And so we turned them into truffles!

Carrot cake truffles

I am a big fan of homemade carrot cake. I bake it quite often (and I cannot believe it is not even on the site yet! Will rectify this soon!) and so there are always a few slices that I can use to make these delicious truffles. It’s super easy to do and you can turn them into cake pops as well, if you prefer.

Needed for the truffles

When you want to make these carrot cake truffles you will need the following simple ingredients and tools. Also make sure to check the full details in the recipe card below:

• all purpose flour
• baking powder
• egg
• cinnamon
• fresh carrots – grated
• spices – you can use the separate spices or use my gingerbread spice mix
• sugar – I like to use light brown caster sugar, but dark brown is optional as well.
• chopped walnuts – make sure to finely chop them properly
• cream cheese  – that will make the carrot cake stick together and make it delicious and rich
• white chocolate – if you prefer to use dark chocolate that is also a good option

In terms of tools you don’t need much but a food processor always comes in handy. A baking sheet and parchment paper for placing the truffles on once coated. A cookie scoop to make evenly sized truffles. A large bowl for the melted chocolate.

Making the truffles

Making the truffles starts by making the carrot cake. Now if you happen to have carrot cake left overs you can obviously use that. If not, bake the carrot cake first and let it cool down completely before moving on to the next step. Crumble the cake into a bowl and add the cream cheese (at room temperature). A tip: adding cream cheese frosting instead of plain cream cheese is absolutely delicious!

Mix it through so it becomes a sticky mixture. Form into balls using a small cookie dough scoop and place in the fridge so they can firm up and cool down. You don’t need much carrot cake for making the carrot cake truffles, so the recipe below is not for a full carrot cake.

Place the chocolate in a heat safe bowl and melt it using the double boiler method. Dip the cold carrot cake balls into the melted white chocolate and place them on a sheet of parchment paper to set. If you would want to make these into a cake pop, now is the time to place the stick in the balls but if not just let the white chocolate coating set.

Once made you can keep them in an airtight container for 3-4 days (in the fridge).

Cheat version

Now if you don’t feel like making your own carrot cake (as that is most of the work) you can go for a carrot cake mix or buy ready made carrot cake. That would make your truffles as easy as mixing the crumbs and then dipping them into chocolate. Mission accomplished in less time!