Chocolate brownie bliss balls

Serves:

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups (150g) walnuts
• 1 1/2 cups (240g) pitted dates
• 1/2 cup cocoa
• 1/2 cup (45g) desiccated coconut
• 2 tbsp coconut oil
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 1/2 tsp salt

Method

Step 1. Gather your ingredients. You will need a food processor for this recipe.

Step 2. Blitz walnuts and dates for 1-2 minutes until finely processed.

Step 3. Add remaining ingredients and blitz until mixture resembles a coarse paste.

Step 4. Using damp hands, form into heaped teaspoon size balls. Refrigerate for two hours to set.

Find more healthier sweet treats

• Chia seed muesli bars
• Cornflake, sultana and cranberry biscuits
• No bake trail mix  biscuits
• Healthy chocolate brownie
• Coconut bran biscuits
• Banana biscuits

Serving Suggestions

Note

• You could use almonds in place of walnuts, or a combination of the two.
• Dust balls in extra cocoa for a bigger chocolatey kick.
• This recipe was created for Kidspot, New Zealand’s best recipe finder by Greer Worsley