No-Bake Lemon Truffles

Yellow lemon truffles garnished with fresh mint, grouped closely on a white serving plate.

These lemon truffles are soft, sweet, and citrusy that taste like a lemon sugar cookie. They look like lemons, they taste like lemons, and they’re sugar-free, gluten free, keto, and low carb with protein and fiber in every bite.

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American

Keyword gluten free recipes, keto recipes, lemon energy bites, lemon protein balls, lemon truffles, low carb recipes, no bake recipes, Protein Powder Recipes, sugar free recipes

Prep Time 15

Chill Time 25

Total Time 40

Servings dipped truffles

Calories 243.48kcal

Author Olivia Wyles

Ingredients

Truffle Mix

⅔ cup powdered sugar-free sweetener
2 tablespoon lemon zest (about 2 medium lemons)
1 cup almond flour
½ cup lemon protein powder
4 tablespoon unsalted butter softened
2 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Coating

5 oz sugar-free white chocolate chips
1-2 tablespoon coconut oil or butter
3 drops yellow food coloring optional, for looks only

Cups - Metric

Instructions

Mix sugar free powdered sweetener together with zest. Tip: Rub between clean fingertips to bring out the lemon zest flavor.
Mix in almond flour, protein powder, butter, vanilla extract, and lemon juice with an electric mixer on medium speed until a dough forms.
Scoop out truffles using a 2 TB cookie scoop or tablespoon. Place a toothpick or skewer through the middle for easy dipping.
Put truffles in the freezer for about 15-25 minutes to harden.
While truffles are hardening, melt sugar-free white chocolate chips and coconut oil or butter on 15 second intervals in the microwave until smooth and fully melted. (Or use double boiler method). Mix in 3 drops of yellow food coloring, if using.
Dip chilled truffles in melted chocolate, remove the skewer, cover the hole from the skewer with a little bit of melted chocolate and add a mint leaf.

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Notes

Nutrition and carbs - Some nutrition labels omit sugar alcohols or allulose from the nutrition calculation since it does not affect blood sugar. For transparency, I have included all carbs and calculated the net carbs below. Always use a food logging app like Cronometer according to the brands you use in order to get accurate nutrition information.

26.77 Total Carbs – 5.61 Fiber – 17.10 Sugar Alcohols – 0 Allulose = 4.05 Net Carbs per iced slice or ⅛ of recipe.

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