Valentine’s Day Red Velvet Truffles

Impress your loved ones with sweet and scrumptious Valentine’s Day Red Velvet Truffles. Not only do they taste amazing, these red velvet truffles look fantastic and go perfectly with a Valentine’s day themed dinner or celebration.

Valentine’s Day Red Velvet Truffle Recipe

Are you looking to impress a special someone? Or maybe you just want a Valentine themed treat for the kids. You can make these tasty and unique red velvet truffles for the Valentine’s Day holiday!

Instead of these being rolled into balls, we’ll use a cookie cutter to make heart-shaped treats.

You will only need a few simple ingredients and they are very easy to make! The base of these recipe is a red velvet cake mix. Best of all you can make them quickly in your Instant Pot!

You just might already have everything you need to make these Valentine’s Truffles after your holiday baking last month.

This Valentine’s Day Truffle recipe makes enough to share so they are great for time together with family and friends as well.

The Ingredients You Will Need to Prepare The Valentine’s Day Red Velvet Truffles

You will need to have following ingredients when making your Valentine’s Day Red Velvet Truffles:

• Red Velvet Cake. You’ll be using a box of cake mix to create the truffles with just few other ingredients.
• Cream Cheese Frosting. You’ll get the perfect consistency for moist and delicious truffles by mixing cream cheese frosting in with your crumbled cake.
• Vanilla Almond Bark.  You’ll be dipping your cake mixture into creamy vanilla almond bark for the perfect truffle coating.
• Red Food Coloring. Adding in some red food coloring to your almond bark will create the cupid pink needed for the Valentine’s Day dessert.

Other than these four main ingredients, you will also need water, eggs, vegetable oil and

Besides these four ingredients, you will need water, eggs, vegetable oil, and Valentine’s sprinkles. With less only 8 ingredients you can make these truffles without costing your time or budget too much.

Equipment Needed to Prepare Truffle Recipe

• Springform Cake Pan
• Instant Pot (Or bake in your oven)
• Cake Cooling Rack
• Parchment Paper
• Mixing Bowl
• Cookie Sheet
• Heart Shaped Cookie Cutter

Steps to Prepare Red Velvet Truffles

• Mix together your cake mix, vegetable oil, water, and eggs.
• In your greased spring pan, pour in your cake batter.
• Place one and a half cups of water to the bottom of your instant pot. Place the trivet inside. Cover your pan with aluminum foil. Place your pan inside the instant pot.
• I close the lid on your instant pot, and make sure to close the sealing valve. Set your instant pot to one hour 10 minutes on high pressure. Once the time is done, do a quick release. 

• Remove your take carefully from the instant pot by using a towel or hot pads, and use the trivet handles to pull the cake out. Allow the cake to cool completely for about 15 to 20 minutes.
• Transfer your cake to a large bowl. Crumble it up. Spoon and three rounded tablespoons of frosting. Mix together.

• Transfer the cake batter to parchment paper. Lay it out flat and use a small heart shaped cookie cutter to make each truffle.
• After you have made each truffle, transfer to the freezer for about 15 minutes to allow them to harden.
• While they’re in the freezer, make a small bowl of your white chocolate. Placed three squares in the microwave for 30 second intervals until completely melted.
• Add a couple of drops of red food coloring to create your desired pink color.
• Remove the truffles from the freezer, place in your chocolate, and make sure they are completely coated. Remove them from the chocolate, transfer them back to the parchment paper and Top them with your sprinkles. The chocolate will start to harden. 
• Enjoy!

How You Can Prepare the Red Velvet Truffles in Advance

You can save a bit of time in making these Valentine’s Day Truffles by doing a bit in advance.

After you make the freezer step you can put in them in a large air-tight container. Be sure to separate layers or stacks with parchment paper so they do not stick to each other.

Put the contain in your refrigerator for up to 5 days.

When you’re ready you can make the almond bark dip and complete the recipe.

You can freeze the Valentine’s Day Red Velvet Truffles for up to six months if needed.

Variations to the Valentine’s Day Red Velvet Cake Truffles

This recipe calls for a box of red velvet cake mix but you can use any flavor of cake mix you prefer.

You may want to use Devil’s Food for a rich chocolate flavor. Or if you don’t like chocolate you could try a pink strawberry cake or vanilla cake mix.

You can really customize these truffles to your or your loved one’s particular preferences.

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