Chocolate

I meant to have this up for valentines day but… #momlife so, here’s a truffle recipe the week after Valentines!

But let’s be honest… Valentines Day is a commercial holiday geared toward making us spend our hard earned dollars on overpriced cards and chocolates lest we not show the people in our lives we care about them on this one day a year anyways soo… I’m just giving you something to show your peeps you love them on all the other days of the year.

I mean, I love chocolate and celebrating the love I share with the people around me, and toward myself, but Ayurveda is about giving ourselves, and our family and friends love on the daily.

As a regular practice. Not reserved for this one day a year.

I also saw all my fellow bloggers posting pictures with heart-shaped baked goods, and find myself thinking, “SHIT I SHOULD HAVE GOT MYSELF TOGETHER TO CREATE SOMETHING HEART SHAPED FOR THE GRAM/BLOG SO I COULD GET IN ON THIS VALENTINES DAY THINGGGG!”

But alas… here we are… a full week later, and you’re getting this now.

So if you wanna show some love, and make something delicious and heart shaped (or circular) this recipe is for YOU!

Now, wanna hear a little secret?

You can literally make anything into the shape of a heart with heart-shaped baking and candy moulds, a simple cookie cutter, or your own craftsmanship.

You don’t need me to give you some fancy shmancy recipe showing you how to do that.

I mean, I am going to show you this really simple peanut butter truffle recipe, but the love I’m going to teach you in this recipe goes beyond the heart mould and comes straight from YOU!

The recipe itself is simple – calling for just a few ingredients that you might have on hand right now. But I want to introduce you to the concept of love and Prana in food.

And not just the Prana in the ingredients how I usually talk about, like the Prana that YOU, the cook brings to the food.

According to Ayurveda, the Prana or energy of the cook passes into the food being cooked and infuses it with love and kindness, or… perhaps… bad vibes?!

Intention is so powerful when cooking, and love is a very real ingredient that goes into our food; it’s not just a cute thing your grandma used to say when she baked your cookies. Maybe she was trying to be cute, but she was right!

This is why I would waaaay rather make a meal at home with my husband and daughter than go to some restaruaunt.

Like seriously, think of the Prana of the cooks in restaurants today. All stressed out trying to get out all the food on time during this busy AF “holiday”. I would much rather connect with my food at home, infuse it with love and intention and kindness, and in-so-doing transfer that energy to my family.

I’m such an Ayurvedic food consciousness nerd these days, so I want to try and convince you that this shit matters!

So… when you’re making these truffles, be really present. You don’t have to do anything fancy. Just be present. Think kind loving thoughts.

Though… You could totally chant Mantra – in fact “YAM” is the cosmic sound associated with the heart chakra that would be very appropriate to chant whilst making these – especially on valentines day!

Here’s a link to a “YAM” mantra clip on youtube if you wanna get super serious about infusing your food with love.

But even approaching the making of your food as meditation would be so powerful – not only for the food but for you!

Ok… so the truffles.

If you are a regular at AYCT you may have had the famous Robyns Cookies peanut butter balls… and not to toot my own horn or anything but these have been touted as BETTER than them.

They’re kinda similar to my peanut butter cookie dough recipe, with a few simple tweaks and dipped in a three ingredient chocolate sauce.

OooOoooOohhHhHhhh baby they’re good.

They also take like, maybe 10 minutes to make, they are no bake (which has been my jaaaam lately). They’re just so simple.

If you try these bad boys out puhleeeeease let me know! Leave me a comment on this recipe, or tag me on the ‘gram @melissasinghyogifuel.

Alright, happy unbaking Yogi’s!