These Easy Salted Butterscotch Truffles have a soft, silky-smooth center of butterscotch goodness that is encased in a shell of semi-sweet chocolate, and topped with a light sprinkle of sea salt. The perfect addition to your holiday trays or for gift giving.
My first Christmas after being diagnosed with Celiac disease, I wasn’t sure what I was going to do for Christmas baking.
I used to do a lot of baking every Christmas, and that year I was still having a lot of trial and error when it came to baking.
I decided to try to find naturally gluten free sweets that I could make, and came across a recipe for Easy Decadent Truffles. That recipe uses cream cheese, icing sugar, and melted chocolate chips as the base of the truffle.
Years later, while I was doing my Christmas baking, I decided that I needed to add some truffles to the list. They are so pretty placed among the cookies on the trays.
I decided to play with the flavors a little bit though, and that is when I made these easy Salted Butterscotch Truffles. When I shared a picture of them on my Facebook page, many comments came in asking me to share the recipe.
So if you are experiencing your first gluten free holiday, or if you are hosting someone that needs to eat gluten free, don’t fret. These easy no-bake Salted Butterscotch truffles are naturally gluten free, easy to make, and only require a few simple ingredients.
How to make Salted Butterscotch Truffles:
- Start with softened cream cheese. This will help it to mix up a nice smooth truffle filling.
- Add the icing sugar, melted gluten free butterscotch baking chips, and vanilla.
- CHILL. Yes, this recipe requires the filling to chill. Not once, but twice.
- Roll the truffle filling into balls, and FREEZE. If the filling seems too sticky to roll into smooth balls, you can smooth them more after freezing.
- Dip the chilled truffle filling balls in melted chocolate, and sprinkle the tops with sea salt.
- Chill & enjoy. Store in a single layer in an air-tight container the refrigerator or freezer.
Looking for more naturally gluten free treats? How about:
- Peanut Butter Confetti Squares
- Jello Popcorn
- Amazing Gluten Free Chocolate Cake
- Sugar Free Vanilla Macaroons
- Flourless Chocolate Mudslide Cookies
Easy Salted Butterscotch Truffles recipe:
Easy Salted Butterscotch Truffles
Easy Salted Butterscotch Truffles have a soft, silky-smooth center of butterscotch goodness that is encased in a shell of semi-sweet chocolate, and topped with a light sprinkle of sea salt. The perfect addition to your holiday trays or for gift giving.
Ingredients
- 1 brick (8 oz, 250 g) cream cheese, softened
- 2 cups 250 gr confectioners' (icing) sugar
- 2 cups (380 g) gluten-free butterscotch chips, melted (see Notes)
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) vanilla extract
- 2 cup (190 g) gluten-free milk or semi-sweet chocolate chips (may need more)
- 2 teaspoon (5 ml) shortening
- 1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml) sea salt
Instructions
- Beat together the cream cheese and confectioners' sugar until smooth.
- In a glass bowl, microwave the butterscotch chips in 30 second intervals at 50% power, stirring in between, until only a few small lumps remain. Then stir until smooth. You can also melt the chips on the top of a double boiler.
- Beat the melted butterscotch chips and vanilla into the cream cheese mixture. Cover and refrigerate for at least one hour.
- Once it is chilled, spoon the mixture into 1 tablespoon balls onto a wax paper or parchment lined baking sheet. I like to use my smallest cookie scoop for this. Place the baking sheet in the freezer for about 30 minutes.
- Now that the filling is hardened, you can use your hands and roll the truffles into smooth balls. Let freeze for a few more minutes while you prepare the chocolate coating.
- Combine the milk or semi-sweet chocolate chips and shortening in the top of a double boiler. I like to place a Pyrex bowl over a small saucepan with 1-inch of barely simmering water in it.
- When the chocolate is melted and smooth, remove half of the truffles from the freezer. Drop one in the melted chocolate, and stir around quickly with a fork. Lift the chocolate coated truffle out of the chocolate with the fork (don't stab the truffle, just have it on top of the fork), and tap the fork on the side of the bowl to remove excess chocolate. Place the chocolate coated truffle onto another wax paper lined baking sheet, using a wooden skewer to push the truffle off of the fork, and sprinkle the top with a few grains of sea salt.
- Repeat this process until you are completely done. You need to work quickly, because the truffles do warm up quickly, that is why we only work with half at a time. Once all the truffles are dipped, place the pans in the freezer for another 5 minutes, just to help the chocolate set up, and then transfer them to a air-tight container.
- These can be refrigerated for up to two weeks, so they are great to make in advance.
Notes
I used Hershey Chipits baking chips. As of October, 2019, these baking chips in Canada contain no gluten ingredients.
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Originally posted December 2014. Images updated November 2019.
Michelle @ My Gluten-free Kitchen says
Jeanine, this just might be my favorite thing you’ve ever posted. I cannot wait to get in the kitchen to make these! I love everything about this flavor combo and think my hubby will too!
Jeanine says
Hehe, thanks, Michelle! 🙂
Shirley @ gfe & All Gluten-Free Desserts says
Just the thought of these is heavenly, Jeanine! I’m imagining that very first bite! 🙂
Shirley
Jeanine says
Thanks, Shirley! They are so good – silky smooth. Mmm….
Heidi Bruner says
Where do you find GF butterscotch chips?
Jeanine says
I used Hershey’s Chipits. In Canada they are GF, but always read the label.
Cynthia says
How, and how long, would you be able to store these truffles? I would love to serve them at an Open House but I would not want to wait ’til the last minute to make them. Thanks!
Bethany says
These look and sound so good!
Cynthia says
Just realized that the instructions do say these can be refrigerated. Can they also be frozen?
Jeanine says
Hi Cynthia, I haven’t tried freezing them, I’m not sure if the chocolate would turn that whitish colour if you did or not. I have refrigerated them for up to two weeks though (if they last that long) 😉
Cynthia says
Thank you 🙂
Magic and Mayhem says
I was hoping against hope that these would be dairy free and all natural. Drat. I find it pretty darn easy to cook gluten free for my kids these days, but juggling that with doing it dairy free too is often just plain depressing. 🙂
vegetarianmamma (Cindy) says
Thanks for linking up at our Gluten Free Fridays Party! I have tweeted and pinned your entry to our Gluten Free Fridays board on Pinterest! 🙂 I can’t wait to see what you share next time!
-Cindy
Eric says
I just made these and I have to say the experience was good. They taste great! The part of the recipe that I struggled with was the amount of chocolate needed to coat all of the truffles. I feel like I ended up using 2.5-3 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips to complete the coating process. 1 cup was not enough. In the end this recipe produced approx. 40 truffles. PS – I did put the airtight container in the freezer for now, but as you’ve commented, they chocolate may turn “whitish”, so I think I’ll transfer the container to the fridge until I am ready to serve these. Keep up the great work on the recipes!
Jeanine Friesen says
Thank you for the feedback, Eric. Now that you mention it, I did have to use more chocolate for dipping as well. I’ll update the recipe now! Enjoy them!
Tris says
Hi, I was wondering if I could make the filling ahead of time and freeze it for a couple weeks and dip them in chocolate later.
Jeanine Friesen says
I think if you froze the formed filling, then stored it in an airtight container or freezer bag (with as much air out as possible), it should work to dip them at a later date. I’ve sometimes left them days before dipping them without any problems. Enjoy!
Sandy says
I saw a comment from 2014 about wishing these could be made dairy free. I’ve been making similar truffles recipes using Violife vegan cream cheese, which is dairy free, and Country Crock plant cream for recipes calling for cream. They work really well.
I’ve tried several other cream cheese alternatives and like Violife the best. I began using Silk heavy whipping cream alternative which I like, but I think I like the Country Crock a little better.