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 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. I used Hershey Chipits baking chips. As of October, 2019, these baking chips in Canada contain no gluten ingredients. Disclosure: We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.Easy Salted Butterscotch Truffles
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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! ๐
Shirley @ gfe & All Gluten-Free Desserts says
Just the thought of these is heavenly, Jeanine! I’m imagining that very first bite! ๐
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) ๐
Cynthia says
Thank you ๐
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. ๐
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! ๐ 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!