Chocolate & Date Energy Balls

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I started making these a few years ago when I needed a hard core chocolate fix, but without all the refined sugars in normal chocolate. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good sugar fix and I’ve been in the kitchen baking up a storm over the last 2 weeks, so I decided to offset it with some high energy healthy treats.

These don’t require any cooking, just blitzing and rolling - pop them in the fridge and you’re ready to eat in an hour or so. Use a good quality unsweetened cocoa powder, and the best quality dates you can find. The walnuts in the recipe can be replaced with other nuts (pecans, pistachios, almonds, brazil nuts), and if you don’t fancy coconut, then blitz up some rolled oats to use instead, and coat them in finely chopped nuts.

These Energy Ball are vegan and gluten free, and taste amaze-balls (see what I did there?).

Enjoy and

Happy Cooking

gill

Chocolate & Date Energy Balls

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  • 15 large dates, pitted and chopped

  • 65 grams walnut halves (about half a cup)

  • 1/4 cup dessicated coconut

  • 1 tablespoon oil

  • 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

  • a teaspoon or two of water if needed

  • extra coconut for coating

Method

  1. Place all of the ingredients except the water into a food processor and blitz until combined, it will still be quite chunky, and should hold together well when pressed, add a smidge of water, or a couple of extra dates if the mixture is not holding together.

  2. Roll into balls, I get about 14 out of the mixture, and roll each ball in coconut. Your hands will feel greasy, because the coconut oil will melt at room temperature.

  3. Roll the balls in coconut and pop into the fridge for an hour to set.

  4. Store these in the fridge. Enjoy.