Watermelon Truffles – No Bake [VIDEO]
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Watermelon Truffles are a fun, tasty and colorful summer treat. Easy to make, with just a few ingredients, these are also no bake.
I love making festive and delicious truffles. These Watermelon Truffles are a perfect treat for the upcoming fall and winter season. I love their natural green and reddish color. My other favorite truffle recipes are Raspberry Truffles, Cashew Chocolate Truffles, and Batter Truffles.
Watermelon Truffles
Watermelon Truffles are here to brighten your day! Fun to make, these are no-bake and a great kitchen project with kids. With just a few ingredients, these Watermelon Truffles taste great and look cute.
Perfect for summer parties, birthday parties or just those days when you need a pink treat. If you love cookie dough, you will be a huge fan of these truffles, as the texture is very similar.
Can I eat raw flour or cake-mix?
Yes, you can, BUT it is NOT recommended and you do it at your own risk, as some of the flour it involves the risk of E.Coli contamination. To kill the bacteria, you can heat-treat the flour prior to adding it to no-bake desserts.
How to Heat-Treat raw flour or cake-mix?
- Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and spread flour or cake mix in an even layer.
- Bake for 5-7 minutes, use a thermometer to check that the flour reached 160F (72C) immediately after removing from oven. Make sure the thermometer is inserted in the flour and isn’t touching/reading the temperature of the hot pan.
- Once the flour has reached 160F (72C) allow it to cool and run it through a sifter to break up any clumps that may have formed while baking. Set aside.
- Make sure you don’t burn the flour. Remember, we are heating it, not baking, don’t expect much color change, it should NOT turn golden-brown.
- Make sure you sift it after the heat treatment and let it fully cool before adding it to no-bake desserts.
Watermelon Truffles Recipe Tips:
- Using Cake Mix is a great shortcut as you don’t have to measure and mix many ingredients. Also, the cake mix will add a delicious flavor, White Cake mix is best to use, as it is easier to color pink. You can also use Strawberry Cake Mix. If you will be using a yellow cake mix, you may need to add more gel color.
- Also, the unsalted butter must be room temperature. Not greasy and oily, at that point, the butter is way too melted.
- In this recipe, mini chocolate chips work best because the truffles are bite size.
- In addition, using candy melts for the chocolate coating is key. You can try to use white chocolate, melt it and after that when it cools down to mix it green gel food color. However, white chocolate is very pretentious and can easily separate, becoming unusable. Using the Green Candy Melts is best, as those are designed to melt (link below).
- Be careful when melting the chocolate as it tends to separate, start by melting for 30-40 secs and stir well, and after that melt in 15 secs increments and stir well as the residual heat will melt the remaining chocolate chunks.
Will the truffles have a watermelon taste?
If you want your truffles to truly taste like watermelon, you can add 1 teaspoon of watermelon extract to the batter (link below).
HOW LONG WILL Watermelon Truffles STAY FRESH?
The Truffles can be stored wrapped in plastic wrap at room temperature for about 5-7 days.
CAN YOU STORE AND FREEZE Watermelon Truffles?
Absolutely! Cool the bites completely and fully wrap it in plastic wrap, tightly. After that, wrap in aluminum foil. Freeze for up to 2-3 months. Defrost before serving.
Tools/Ingredients I used to make these No Bake Cake Batter Truffles:
- Watermelon Extract – if you want to add a nice watermelon flavor to your truffles
- Green Candy Melts – love these Wilton candy melts, easy eo use and the perfect shade of green
- White Cake Mix – I like this one in this recipe as it is easier to color pink
- Mini Chocolate Chips – tiny and cute, I love these in truffles
- Cookie Scoop – makes it easier to make perfect sized truffles
Watermelon Truffles Recipe Video:
Watermelon Truffles
Watermelon Truffles are a fun, tasty and colorful summer treat. Easy to make, with just a few ingredients, these are also no bake.
Ingredients
- 1 package White Cake Mix 15.25 ounces
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 2 sticks unsalted butter room temperature
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
- 8 drops pink gel food color
- 1 teaspoon watermelon extract optional
- 2 packages Wilton Green Candy Melts 12 ounces each
Instructions
Cover a baking sheet or cutting board with waxed paper and set aside.
- Slice butter into 8-10 pieces and add it to a large bowl, add cake mix and flour.
- Using a fork, work the butter into the flour and cake mix until fully combined and it resembles smooth cookie dough. To make the process easier, mix with the fork and after that use your hands or a spatula to combine all the ingredients.
- Add watermelon extract and pink gel food color, fold in with a spatula.
- Add mini chocolate chips and fold in with a spatula.
- Measuring 1.5-2 tablespoons of truffle batter, using a cookie scoop, scoop dough and using your palms roll it into a ball. Place truffle balls onto the prepared baking sheet. Place in freezer for 10 minutes (or refrigerate for 30 minutes) before coating with green chocolate.
- The amount of truffles you will get depends on how large or small you make them.
- Add candy melts to a large microwave safe bowl and melt for 30-40 seconds. Stir well and microwave for another 20 or 30 seconds, stir well with a spatula and if there is still chocolate that did not melt, microwave for another 15 seconds and stir well.
- Using a fork, dip each dough ball into the melted white chocolate and place on a prepared plate covered with wax or parchment paper.
- Place truffles in the fridge for at least 20 - 30 minutes or until the chocolate coating hardens.
- Store truffles in the fridge for up to 7-10 days.
- Serve and enjoy!
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this is such a creative way to make truffles. i never thought of freezing cake mix into a cookie dough.
These cute truffles are what summer is all about! I’m not sure mine will be as cute as yours but I’m definitely going to try.
These are so fun! Perfect for summer.
Can you use watermelon Jello for the tasted?
yes!
So how would you add in the jello? And also you’re baking the flour but what about the flour in the cake mix? Could you get ecoli from that?🤔
You can bake the cake mix the same way as the flour. The Jello just mix it with the cake mix.
These are so fun, great addition to any summer outdoor gathering.
What a fun idea…these are so cute!
These are super fun! I’ll bet they’d be the talk of any party or BBQ!
Very cute idea! I have a feeling these would be a hit at any bbq.
These are so fun! Love how they are no bake – perfect for summer!
What a super fun addition for summer parties! My kids would go crazy over these, I’d have to hide them until party time!
These are adorable! I would love to make these with the girls over the summer. This would be so fun to make as a a party favor too.
I love these desserts. They’re fun to eat, they’re little and they taste delicious. I have never tried the watermelon version but I’m going to.
The watermelon truffles are so cute and summery. I teach kindergarten and my students would have loved those. I also saw the white sprinkled truffles on the way to the comments and those look delish too.
Thanks Kim! I actually have a kindergarten age boy and he LOVES these truffles and also the sprinkle ones 🙂
These are so cute. Such a perfect dessert to serve at an outdoor picnic or barbecue!
Thank you 🙂
These Watermelon Truffles look so cute and delicious. I will have to get the ingredients I need to make some one the weekend. I want to try the White Chocolate Raspberry Truffles recipe as well.
The raspberry ones are also amazing and so flavorful!
Those are just adorable! I love how creative they look and they look pretty easy to make too! Thanks for the recipes!
Thank you Christy, they are pretty easy to make 🙂
Watermelon truffles seem to be a great snack idea for this summer. It’s great that I don’t need to bake it.
thanks
I have never seen a watermelon truffle before! My kids would absolutely flip out to bit into these and find the watermelon center!
Mine loved these!
My daughters love making no bake truffles! I am definitely going to add this to their recipe folder.
These Watermelon truffles are so colorful. Maybe in the future, I would try making it.
thank you!
This is such an interesting idea. I would try to use beets to color them naturally. What do you think?
It should work, you may have to add a bit more flour, but the color should be pretty, maybe not as pink, but definitely pretty!
I love watermelon anything. These truffles look absolutely amazing. They would be perfect for summer. Im totally trying this recipe.
What an absolutely adorable idea! Dang, I always feel like my creativity lacks when I see neat things like this. These would be perfect for a get together this summer!
lol when I open Pinterest I always feel like I am not creative haha! Yes, these are perfect for summer parties!
Oh these are adorable and look delicious too! My Mother in law loves to bake and is always getting creative with her desserts. I am sending this to her, I know she would love to make it!
Thank you Emily!
These look delicious and perfect for summer. Watermelon means summer in Texas1!!
They have watermelon jello, anyone have any idea how it could be used for color and flavor? just a thought. love the recipe, will try it
These look soo good! And they’re so stinkin’ cute! They’d be so perfect for a summer party or BBQ. I have to try making them!!!
thank you!
These are so fun! Will be great for a really fun summer theme party!
I’m sorry but making truffles has nothing to do with cake mixes. Why not make a pink ganache and as it cools add watermelon flavor/oil and chips. Let it completely chill, roll into balls, chill a
gain and dip in green melted chocolate.
Great idea 🙂
Does that count as fruit….. like is that health???
These cute truffles are what summer is all about! I’m not sure mine will be as cute as yours but I’m definitely going to try. So satisfying 🙂
This recipe looks delicious, such a pretty summer treat. In the beginning, you mention about baking the cake mix, but it’s not mentioned in the recipe. Shouldn’t that be in the recipe also? Sometimes people read quickly, then print the recipe but since that is not mentioned in the recipe, they might forget about it. I’ve used cake mixes in recipes many times over the years, but the desserts were always being baked. I’m giving the recipe a 4 star rating since I haven’t made it yet.
Omg these look so good! I honestly wish that I had some right now because they look so amazing and so delicious! I wll make it on the next time. thanks for your sharing so much