Chocolate nutty energy balls. Energy Balls- the easiest healthy snack around! There is no secret that we love snacking here on Fit Foodie Finds. For this coconut chocolate energy ball recipe, we used almonds!
You can have Chocolate nutty energy balls using 5 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Chocolate nutty energy balls
- Prepare 400 g of dates (stoned).
- Prepare 200 g of any nuts (I used almonds and hazlenuts).
- Prepare 2 tbsp of coconut oil.
- It’s 4 tbsp of raw cacao powder (can use normal cocoa powder too).
- You need 3 tbsp of nut butter (peanut, almond, cashew butter etc).
Smooth, creamy, chocolatey, coconuty, nutty, and sweet… but only. Perfect for all the dark chocolate fans out there. Not too sweet, just a perfectly balanced nutty dark chocolate truffle. Energy balls are so versatile that you could create a different version every day for the rest of your life!
Chocolate nutty energy balls step by step
Using your food processor, whizz the nuts until they are a fine texture.
Add in the dates and coconut oil and process until all mixed in.
Spoon in the nut butter and cacao powder and whizz until all thoroughly mixed.
Use a tablespoon size of the mixture and squeeze into a ball, rolling around your palms to get a good shape. Continue until you use all the mixture - should make approx 25 balls.
Chill the balls for a few hours and store them in the fridge.
Which-ever ingredients I use, my creations Cranberry White Chocolate Energy Bites are highly addicting and could pass as a healthy dessert! Tart cranberries mixed with white chocolate, oats. My pumpkin seeds were lightly salted. These chocolate date energy bites are a snack time staple in our house. Skip the pre-packaged snacks and make these energy balls full of wholesome.
