Made truffles or are they fauxuffles

(Amanda) #1

Being new to Keto, I think I’m being clever but am I being dumb!?
I used to eat a lot of sweet stuff and I’ve been thinking about chocolate all day, so brain wave or brain fart I decided to make truffles. I melted 50g of extra dark 72% cocoa chocolate (17g carbs) and mixed it with 100g of mascarpone (3.5g carbs) rolled it into sticky balls then dusted with cacao powder! I made 10 truffles. Am I right to think the simple math here says I have circa 2-3g carbs per truffle!? Or did things change when I did my chocolate wizardry?..asking for a friend! :eyes::rofl:

#2

If the original carbs are right, yep, you counted well. You can’t create or lose carbs mixing these items :smiley:
I wouldn’t use sugar in it but that’s me. I make my own chocolate since ages, it’s easy and way better for me.
Whatever floats your boat. I can’t possibly know that you are the type who benefits from half-keto sweets (I can’t consider your sugary thing actually keto-friendly, it just fits your macros as any other food if you are careful with the amount) or not and I definitely not judge, I would be a hypocrite then and that sounds bad.

(Amanda) #3

Well I use the carb manager app along with reading the labels so I think it would be misleading if the original carbs are wrong. No sugar added just the three ingredients. Nom nom nom :yum:

#4

It’s nice then? Maybe I will try it myself.
The sugar is in the chocolate, that’s why a single ball has so much carbs. Still fine if it feels good and fits your macros but there is a significant amount of sugar there. 72% is still pretty normal (not the most common one but nothing special), it still has lots of sugar.

(Amanda) #5

Ahhh, I understand now, I’m only a couple of weeks in so it’s all so new to me. I haven’t even looked at macros yet, so I don’t understand that side of things. I’m just tying to get used to finding foods I can eat, keeping carbs at bay and peeing on ketostix to make sure I’ve not knocked my self out of Ketosis.

('Jackie P') #6


Actually there are a few recipes around, I suppose they would also fall into the fatbomb category.

(Amanda) #7

This excites me beyond belief. Thank you :blush: