Cognac is lovely with chocolate. You can roll them in anything you like.....cocoa powder, melted chocolate - try white, chopped nuts....

I quite a little almond flour added. It changes the texture. You can add a little sugar if you prefer sweeter ones. It's really up to whatever you like best.

I have made Keto chocolate mousse with Equal sweetener (Splenda gives me the runs, I discovered), just adding a bit at a time until it tasted sweet enough. DH loved it. I like the idea of Cointreau. Whatever you add, keep the vanilla in. As well as having its own flavour, vanilla enhances other flavours. Chopped or flaked nuts would be good for rolling if you didn't want to use cocoa powder.

Baking and proportions make a cookie IMO, not just almond flour and eggs. But the eggs would be a bit iffy unless they were pasteurised.

I thought your keto guests were last weekend...(paper plate boy, lol)...a dear friend became smitten with a 'paper plate girl'...that was a wild weekend. Thankful that relationship ended.

So, you went through the various recipes like, HERE

So many choices !!

A few weeks ago I was sent I think 18+ avocados so I gave some to my truffle making neighbor. Now we have a dozen avocado truffles in the freezer. She uses all sorts of things to roll. Coconut, matcha, nut powders, (I like crushed pistachios) this recipe, HERE She make special diet/allergy truffles for a local bakery. We are fortunate to be her taste testers.

I would just keep most of them plain, w/cocoa powder. Truffles are one of the easier small treats to make once the ingredients are on hand in the pantry. A pain to go shop and search.

Bobby flavCity is my go to for all things keto/paleo.

My favorite liqueurs with chocolate are Frangelico, Amaretto, Nocello, Kahlua, and coconut.

You can buy bulk Splenda, which you can use like sugar.

Forgot to mention my neighbor made holiday gift boxes using booze a few years ago. She purchased a half dozen tiny Airline bottles. We liked the bourbon. I had just re-gifted her a bottle of limoncello (it was open and 'bleech', yuck)...thought she could use it in her baking somehow...she made white chocolate/lemoncello truffles, yuck, lol.

Wouldn't the sugar in liqueurs be a problem? Many are practically alcoholic syrups.

I prefer bourbon over any other booze flavor.

Bourbon or a smokey scotch would obviously be fine. Maybe a 1/4 tsp in something small like a truffle using a liquor just for the flavor?....2 carbs?

Most just avoid any alcohol in any form being such a disciplined diet. It becomes a challenge and a total food switch from previous eating habits. Why I don't cater to keto visitors/guests. It isn't an allergy like dairy, nuts/grains, gluten. My kitchen, fridge, pantry, and meals are very keto friendly. Keto is a choice, not a danger.

I hope he is not a label reader. 😂🙄 My 'paper plate gal', after showing her the fridge and pantry and a "please help yourself" anytime...asked if the guest sheets were organic cotton. (she brought her own pillow). Nothing more cringing than a dinner conversation about ingredients and additives. 🙄. The meal was whole fresh organic with lots of choices. Thankfully just one over-night. So un-grateful as a house guest. Especially someone I've never met. I will go to endless prep and treats for a good friend.

Your DD's companion seems compassionate and not at all a kitchen annoyance.

”Are your sheets organic?” Really? I believe I may have become selectively deaf at that point!

I have no reason to believe BF is going to be difficult. While he prefers to eat Keto (DSD’s term, not his. I’m beginning to think “low-carb” is a better term), from what DSD tells me, when he is in a social situation, he adapts to what is available.

So far, I’ve made boiled eggs, washed more lettuce than Farmer McGregor, and made frico. My projects for the afternoon are the truffles and kale chips. Then I’m going to close the kitchen.

Good for you! Enjoy your visit!

Keto is a choice, unless you are diabetic. Then it is a solution.

The ganache is made, but I don’t have time to roll the truffles tonight. I added 1 tsp bourbon, in addition to the 1 tsp vanilla. Flavor is good. I may roll half in chocolate sprinkles and the other half in chopped pecans. I’m not too fond of cocoa powder.

Sounds great. The roll-ins are just the beauty and really just to create an exterior, some extra flavor, but also a moisture barrier from warm hands. Little moist brown wet balls?....pretty if rolled in something yum.

The sprinkles are a lot of sugar, although I don’t think the carbs from a couple of truffles’ worth will be much. To maintain ketosis you can have up to 20g of carbs per day, though DH tries to keep it below 10g.

Are your sheets organic..... i now have sprayed my keyboard with coffee...... Good Lord. I am reminded when an actress, can't remember for the life of me who, said when faced with a really obnoxious guest, went and broke wind on the guest's pillow. Revenge!

Things I learned from making chocolate truffles at 6 a.m.

1. Use an ice pack in a ziplock bag to cool your hands from time to time.

2. Whether one likes cocoa powder or not, it is the quickest coating.

3. Chocolate sprinkles wander off - a lot.

4. Chocolate truffles and a cup of coffee make a fine breakfast.

Be sure to let us know if he's a keeper or a paper plate boy ;0)

Islay, it's Andrea McLean. Here's a link to the story on FartHub, and no, I'm not a regular visitor to FartHub, which I discovered just now thanks to you :)

https://www.farthub.com/talk-show-host-admits-to-farting-on-rude-guests-pillow/

UPDATE-ish: The visit isn’t totally over, but so far, he doesn’t fall into the paper-plate category! And he hummed appreciatively when he ate the first of the chocolate truffles. Made it all worthwhile!

I’ve decided DSD doesn’t know keto. If that boy is keto, I’m a monkey’s uncle! He eats judiciously, but neither low carb nor keto.

😂. Well at least the play-by-play has been entertaining. And forced me to brush up on keto and paleo if my sisters flies in to meet us at my parents.

She is on the 'a-la-carte' diet. Different every time I see her. I call it the yoyo. The 'you-are-on your-own' diet since I can't follow the various changes and now her recent husband is muslim. Fortunately we will be at the beach so no pig roasts, lol.

She is mostly raw. Bummer if I am requested to haul my commercial blender....

I did print out a couple truffle recipes and one based on a reese cup using powdered pecans or almonds....but knowing the timing and packing involved, I'll just take a jar of nut butter and some good chocolate bars from WholeFoods.

She travels with her own pillow case, lol.

So nice to be visiting again!

Thanks for the update! LOL about the definition of keto. :) Maybe Mr. Careful uses the word as a way to discourage well meaning food pushers? Oh, now, I can't have any, I'm on Keto, not expecting most people to understand what it entails other than celebrities do it for health. :) So glad he's worth dishes. :)

Sometimes I try to provide food for Mr. Picky, but he's usually on the yoyo too. :) (Thanks, S, for that one! I'm keeping it!) Love the solution to the treats. I can think of half a dozen things to do with a bar of chocolate and a jar of peanut butter that don't involve making a mess of the hosts' kitchen. :)