Comments on: real life test kitchen: healthy gingerbread truffles

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By: mkhall

mkhall — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:13:35 +0000

They remind me in concept of Lara bars, which I love! If I wasn’t utterly useless in the kitchen I would totally make these. I should try to talk someone into making them for me…

By: Marissa

Marissa — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:10:46 +0000

Dawn, I love culinary history! If you have any books to recommend I’d love to hear about them. Prunes are just dried plums. Plums are yummy!

By: Dawn

Dawn — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:23:18 +0000

I don’t think I’ve ever seen such healthy looking truffles before. I wish I had time to make some before I leave town. I love love love ginger in truffles.

If you read really old cookbooks, you find prunes use to be in TONS of recipes, as they were one of the best fruits for preserving, transporting, and storing in olden days before things could be moved about quickly and transported frozen/refrigerated. I don’t know when they got the bad rap. I’m guessing when other fruits became easier to access and sales when down, marketers went with the digestive health angle, and it backfired on them?

By: Sarah L.

Sarah L. — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:40:46 +0000

These look great! My MIL makes something similar every year and then rolls them in coconut. I’m sure they are not as health conscious, though. Can’t wait to try yours!

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:04:31 +0000

Yummy!!

By: Marissa

Marissa — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:03:14 +0000

I used to feel the same way about prunes, but then I actually ate one and I really enjoyed it. The prunes in this recipe area substitute for the molasses in gingerbread. They really add depth.

As for the comment about them looking disgusting. That is fine, we all have our likes and dislikes. Personally I have always been a huge fan of plum pudding, and these remind me a lot of what plum pudding looks like when sliced. There are many foods I don’t find visually appealing but once I tried them I realized how delicious they were. But to each their own.

By: Faith

Faith — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:54:57 +0000

I would never eat a prune by itself but it’s amazing how you can sneak weird ingredients into recipes and have it taste so good. I make the chocolate pudding from the Pumpkin & Pomegranate blog on a regular basis and it’s just avocado, bananas, dates, and cacao. Genius! I’m gonna make these truffles this weekend for sure.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:21:06 +0000

These really do look great. I make a lot of recipes from Pumpkin & Pomegranate. They are all very inventive and delicious.

By: Bay

Bay — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:18:05 +0000

Seriously, Beth? I would like a BOX of these. They not only look delicious, they likely don’t make you feel disgusting afterward. It’s win-win. People have an odd aversion to prunes, when actually they provide some excellent healthy sweetener.

They actually look a lot like a dessert my grandmother used to make, without the chocolate.