I am a total sucker for cute DIY projects and packaging.
So when companies like EAT Healthy Designs get placed in my lap…my brain goes off-the-walls giddy like a kids first time at Disneyland.
Valentine’s Day is the best excuse to whip up treat-yo-self worthy desserts and hand them out to your favorite people. If you’re like me, you find ANY reason to do this. Not sure what it is, but something about feeding the ones you love and catering to their taste buds makes my heart grow warm and fuzzy.
This past weekend I baked up a storm in lew of the holiday. Needless to say some certain family members and long-distance-lovers received an early Valentines Day treat box this week. If baking, decorating, packaging and shipping could be my full-time job I would die a happy woman. Of course it would be 100 times better if I didn’t have to ship off goods to a certain someone and that certain someone lived in the same area code…Anyone else have a long distance relationship? How do y’all cope with it?!
I bake. And blog. They both have become so therapeutic for me in ways I never imagined. My mind is more at ease when I’m in the kitchen folding chocolate chips into banana bread batter and watching little dough puffs turn to ooey gooey delicious cookies in the oven. This all somehow ties into my love for nutrition and sending off my baked goods to the loves of my life.
Enter—> EAT Healthy Designs First off, how freaking adorbs are their card designs?! Not to mention the way Elise packages her products…my heart literally melts every time I get their stuff in the mail. Elise and Travis are the masterminds behind this brilliantly creative design company that combines nutrition and stationary. All of their themes throw a fun twist on food along with nutrition facts on the back, describing that particular food. Genius.
If that didn’t make me love them already, they built up this company all on their own. Elise is a fellow Registered Dietician to be and created this product while still completing her dietetic internship. This alone, is beyond inspiring to me and I only dream of creating my own nutrition related product from the ground-up then turning it into something big.
Right now they have downloadable Valentine’s Day “puns” on their website with sayings like “You are Berry Awesome” and “We were Mint to be together”. Again, heart melting. My favorite of them all is the “I Like You a Latte” and I was beyond thrilled to put together these Dark Chocolate Latte Cream Truffles in honor of this pun and EAT’s inspiring story.
I like latte’s. And I like chocolate. I like them “a latte”. Gah so corny yet I can’t help myself.
Case in point. Make these. Then package them in the-most-adorable-heart-melt-worthy stationary and I guarantee you will make someones day. It really is the simple things that drive my mind wild.
Dark Chocolate Latte Cream Truffles + EAT Valentine’s Day Pun Cards!
- Yield: 20–24 truffle cups 1x
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup oat flour
- 2 Tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tsp espresso powder
- Sea salt to taste
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup + 2 Tbsp mascarpone cheese
- 1 cup dark chocolate chunks or chips
Instructions
- In a large bowl mix together oat flour, cocoa powder, espresso powder and sea salt until fully combined. In a seperate bowl whisk together maple syrup and mascarpone cheese with a fork. Pour wet ingredients into dry and stir until a dough forms. Place dough in the freezer while you melt your chocolate.
- Place chocolate chunks into a microwave safe bowl and melt in 30 second incremenets, stirring inbetween. It should take around 1 minutes total to fully melt chocolate, being careful not to burn!
- Line a mini muffin liner with mini cupcake liners. I made about 20 truffle cups with the recipe. It depends how large you end up make the dough balls.
- Pour about 1 tablespoon of chocolate into each tin. Take dough out of the freezer and place small balls into each chocolate covered tin. You may need to use a small cookie scoop or tablespoon measuring spoon if dough is super moist.
- Pour remaining chocolate on top, fully covering each ball.
- Place the truffle cups in the fridge for one hour, or until the chocolate has fully hardened.
Notes
- Makes 20-24 truffle cups.
- Keep truffle cups stored in the fridge before eating or until you’re ready to package into gifts!