These melt-in-your-mouth chocolate pumpkin fudge balls are ridiculously good.
What do you do when you’re stressed?
I’m normally an exceptionally outgoing person.
But when I feel overwhelmed, I generally prefer to be alone, to process everything in my head.
I’ll go for a long walk or run, lay in bed with my feet up against the wall, or listen to loud blasting metal or rock, with headphones on so as not to drive my neighbors crazy.
Or I make food!
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Measuring ingredients, mixing batters, rolling dough, and even doing the dishes are all therapeutic to me.
No thinking is required; my hands can work on autopilot, giving my overworked mind a rest.
And it doesn’t hurt that—after I’m finished with the measuring, mixing, and rolling—there is chocolate to eat!
Chocolate!
And in the case of today’s recipe, chocolate and pumpkin and coconut.
Each pumpkiny chocolate bite of these addictively delicious pumpkin fudge balls absolutely melts in your mouth.
Goodbye, stress.
What do you do when you feel stressed?
Do you call a friend or prefer to be alone? Listen to music or prefer silence?
I think it’s funny how people can have such different coping mechanisms for stressful situations.
For instance, one of my friends likes to jump in the car and drive for hours, to no place in particular, when he feels overwhelmed.
But to me, this would feel like a waste of time… which would stress me out even more.
Pumpkin Fudge Balls
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup pumpkin puree
- 6 tbsp coconut butter, (for coconut-free, try these Chocolate Truffles)
- 2 tbsp pure maple syrup, honey, or agave
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp cinnamon
- tiny pinch salt
- Only if not coating in chocolate, add stevia to taste OR 1 additional tbsp both pure maple syrup and coconut butter
- Optional chocolate coating, listed in instructions below
Instructions
- Make sure no ingredients are cold. In a cereal bowl, stir together all truffle ingredients until completely smooth. Refrigerate half an hour or until firm enough to roll into balls with your hands or a mini cookie scoop. If you wish to coat them in chocolate, either dip in melted chocolate OR mix together equal parts virgin coconut oil, cocoa powder, and pure maple syrup until a thin sauce forms. Dip fudge balls in, then immediately set back in the freezer to harden. Leftover balls should be stored in the fridge or freezer for up to three days.View Nutrition Facts
Notes
More Healthy Pumpkin Recipes:
Pumpkin Breakfast Cupcakes To-Go
Vegan Pumpkin Swirl Cream Cheese Bread
(From the Hello Breakfast eBook)
Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
Yummmmmm! These look great! And they’re so simple!
I adore your recipes! I tried this one today and had an issue with mixing everything successfully. Once I refrigerated the pumpkin mixture, the oil and pumpkin separated. Any tips?? Thank you!!
HA! Nevermind. I answered my own question. Apparently I’m bad at reading; I used coconut oil instead of coconut butter. Mulligan!!
Stephanie, I did the same thing and was wondering why it is separating and will not get hard!
Coconut Butter NOT OIL! haha
I always cook or bake when I’m stressed out. Or chat on the phone with my girlfriends! These truffles look like the perfect treat for Halloween!
Music and baking, trees and books are my go-to’s for stress.
If they don’t work, I tell myself to sleep on it, and it’s usually all better in the morning.
Thanks for this recipe! I will be such a hit at the next Halloween party.
How much powdered I know it has to have some if not what do you use
I am amazed at how delicious these are!!! And how easy they are to make. I have never used a recipe from your site that was not amazing. I LOVE the pumpkin mac and cheese and would have never thought to use pumpkin like that. Thanks so much for sharing your delicious recipes!
WOW! I can’t believe how tasty these are, and I just put them in the fridge to cool so I can make the balls. Of course, I had to sneak a taste and thought I could probably just eat it warm and straight out of the bowl. 🙂 Thanks for the great recipe!
is the nutrition facts with or without the chocolate coating?
How long will these keep for? I’m thinking of making them ahead of time and giving them out as “favors” at our Thanksgiving party. – I try to plan accordingly so that I do minimal cooking/baking the day of. Thanks in advance!!!
A few days in the fridge, or a few weeks in the freezer!
Thanks so much! Making them now!
I have been salivating over these every since they have been posted! I have a question about the chocolate coating process. After the balls have been made are they immediately coated with chocolate and then put into the freezer OR are the balls made, frozen and THEN dipped in chocolate?
Made, frozen, dipped, then frozen again.