Gluten-Free Truffles & Bliss Balls
Two very different treats share this page. Truffles are the proper confectionery project: ganache chilled, rolled, dusted, gifted. Bliss balls are the five-minute answer: dates and nuts blitzed in a blender, rolled in coconut, done — no cooking at all. Both are naturally gluten free when made at home, and every recipe below has been read in full with the label traps flagged.
How to choose: proper truffles for Christmas plates and edible gifts; bliss balls for lunchboxes, post-school snacks and the freezer stash. The fun one — Oreo truffles — sits in between, because sometimes the occasion demands it.
We don’t republish anyone’s method. Every pick links straight to the original recipe on the creator’s site, where the full ingredient list and steps live.
Proper truffles
Dark Chocolate Truffles (Gluten Free Alchemist)
The definitive version from the most rigorous gluten-free baker in the UK — dark, rich and exactly what a chocolate truffle should be. If you’re making truffles for the first time, her step-by-step detail is the safety net. Cream, chocolate, patience.
Fudgey Chocolate Truffles (Chelsea Winter)
From one of New Zealand’s best-loved cooks — a fudgey, fridge-set truffle that takes minutes and tastes like you spent hours. The ingredients are all supermarket staples, and the method is forgiving enough for kids to help roll.
Gluten-Free Fudge Truffles
A fudge-and-truffle cross from the budget-baking kitchen at Gluten Free on a Shoestring — softer than a classic ganache ball, no tempering required. Made with a tested GF flour blend where any thickening is needed, so nothing needs substituting.
Chocolate Orange Truffles
That chocolate-and-orange combination that people either love or really love — orange zest doing the work in a dark ganache. The Christmas stocking filler of this page, and it scales up easily for gift boxes.
Almond Coconut Truffles
No ganache required — almond and coconut bound together and dressed in chocolate, somewhere between a truffle and a bounty. Naturally grain free, and the kind of recipe that uses up the half-empty nut bags in the freezer.
Boozy Christmas Truffles
The adults-only plate at Christmas — gluten-free truffles with a proper splash of something festive, from an Australian country kitchen. Make these ahead; they’re better after a week in the fridge, which is one less job for the big days.
Gluten-Free Oreo Truffles
The internet’s favourite party truffle, done gluten free — crushed GF Oreos and cream cheese, dipped in chocolate. Somehow both the easiest and the most impressive thing on this page. Check the Oreo pack, because flavours beyond the original vary.
Bliss balls
Salted Caramel Bliss Balls
Dates and salt doing a very convincing caramel impression — no baking, no refined sugar, ten minutes flat. These are the bliss balls that convert people who think they don’t like bliss balls.
Nut-Free Chocolate Bliss Balls
School-lunchbox-safe and proud of it — seed-based instead of nut-based, from a kids’ nutrition kitchen. The recipe every coeliac parent needs for the “no nuts at school” years, and it freezes well in batches.
Chocolate Bliss Balls (Vegan & Paleo)
The vegan-and-paleo-compliant version — cocoa, nuts and dates with nothing artificial. A solid base recipe to learn once and then flavour however the pantry suggests.
Raw Coconut Chocolate Bliss Balls
Coconut through and through — desiccated in the mix, coconut oil to bind, coconut for rolling. From NZ blog Southern In Law, and naturally gluten free, vegan and paleo in one go.
Ginger Bliss Balls
For the ginger-mad households — warm spice, no chocolate in sight, gluten free and dairy free. A nice change of pace from the cocoa-heavy options, and the ginger lovers at our place would fight over the last one.
Raw Berry Bliss Balls (Oat-Free)
Berries instead of the usual chocolate — a fruit-forward pink-ish ball that’s explicitly oat-free, which matters here: this site keeps gluten free and oat free, and most bliss ball recipes lean on oats. This one doesn’t, so it’s safe as written.
Before you blend
Three label checks cover this whole page: oats — many bliss ball recipes use them, and oats aren’t part of how this site eats, so the picks above avoid them (or say so); dates — check the pack isn’t dusted with anything beyond dates; chocolate for dipping — scan for “may contain” warnings and skip flavoured compounds. A food processor does the heavy lifting everywhere here, so don’t attempt bliss balls by hand.
Where to next
Still on the sweet shelf? Gluten-Free Chocolate Bars covers the homemade Mars bars and Twix, while Cookies & Biscuits holds the lunchbox classics. The Pantry Staples list covers the dates, cocoa and coconut to keep stocked.
Wondering about oats and the gluten-free diet? The coeliac guides give you the full picture.
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