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Cacao Coconut Date Bliss Balls

Posted on July 17 2019

berrysweetlife.com

These Cacao Coconut Date Bliss Balls are melt in your mouth smooth, creamy, nutty, sweet and chocolatey!  They taste like dessert and yet they are a completely healthy and easy to make snack!

Melt in your mouth smooth, creamy, nutty, sweet and chocolatey! Cacao Coconut Date Bliss Balls are like dessert, yet are a healthy and easy to make snack! | berrysweetlife.com

Made with just 7 simple ingredients, these little drops of MIRACULOUS YUMMINESS are super simple to throw together in a matter of minutes, and they make a big batch of 20 large bliss balls, or 40 mini bliss balls.

Also known as “energy balls” – Cacao Coconut Date Bliss Balls have a great balance of all 3 macronutrients (complex carbs, protein and healthy fat) that will boost your metabolism and keep you going until your next meal!

You will also love my Cashew Pear Energy Protein Balls, my Gluten Free Lemon Bars With Crunchy Crust, my Super Seedy Almond Cranberry Granola Bars, my Mango Date Brown Flour Muesli Rusks and my Apricot & Cranberry No Bake Bars.

Melt in your mouth smooth, creamy, nutty, sweet and chocolatey! Cacao Coconut Date Bliss Balls are like dessert, yet are a healthy and easy to make snack! | berrysweetlife.com

Personally, I like mine with a little crunch, so I make sure that the cashews don’t get too blended because I love that balance of smooth and crunchy.

AND I LOOOOVE coconut, so I roll my bliss balls in desiccated coconut (unsweetened), before they get inhaled by whoever is around – and believe me, they will!!

Or, if you’re clever, you’ll make them when you’re all alone, then you can keep them in an airtight container in the fridge or freezer and enjoy one for your mid morning or mid afternoon snack.

And no-one will have to know they’re there!  I won’t tell if you don’t!  It’ll be our little secret.

Just kidding, sharing is caring and all that.  Esp when it comes to food…

Melt in your mouth smooth, creamy, nutty, sweet and chocolatey! Cacao Coconut Date Bliss Balls are like dessert, yet are a healthy and easy to make snack! | berrysweetlife.com

I look forward to snack time on a daily basis, and it’s SO NICE to know I have a stash of Cacao Coconut Date Bliss Balls to grab at a moments notice.

I first started making this recipe in bar form…And those were good, really good.  But this new and improved recipe is on another level altogether!!

Rolling the mixture into balls really gives you that soft and creamy centre that is missing with a bar.

And who doesn’t love a soft and creamy centre?!

Melt in your mouth smooth, creamy, nutty, sweet and chocolatey! Cacao Coconut Date Bliss Balls are like dessert, yet are a healthy and easy to make snack! | berrysweetlife.com

What’s exciting about this Cacao Coconut Date Bliss Balls recipe is that you can tweak it in all sorts of ways to suit you:
  • Too sweet?  Add a little more cacao powder
  • Don’t like chocolate?  Leave out the cacao
  • Love almonds or macadamias?  Use them instead of cashew nuts!
  • Love that sweet and salty combo?  Add a dash more Himalayan pink salt
  • Want them smoother?  Blend a little longer
  • Feel like a sour/tart bliss ball this week?  Use 1/2 dried apricots and 1/2 dates!!  (This sounds incredible to me!!! Defos trying this, and you better let me know if you do!

Melt in your mouth smooth, creamy, nutty, sweet and chocolatey! Cacao Coconut Date Bliss Balls are like dessert, yet are a healthy and easy to make snack! | berrysweetlife.com

As you can see, the options are endless, super delectable and enticing 🙂

Please, please don’t miss out on this amazingly healthy, nutritious and delicious Cacao Coconut Date Bliss Balls recipe!

Make them soon.  So soon.  And then report back, I want to hear ALL about it!!

Cacao Coconut Date Bliss Balls
Prep Time
15 mins
Total Time
15 mins
 

These Cacao Coconut Date Bliss Balls are melt in your mouth smooth, creamy, nutty, sweet and chocolatey!  They taste like dessert and yet they are a completely healthy snack!




Course: Snack
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Bliss Balls, Date Balls, Energy Balls
Servings: 20
Calories: 148 kcal
Author: Berry Sweet Life
Ingredients
  • 2 cups pitted dates
  • 1 cup raw cashews
  • 1/4 cup

    peanut butter

  • 1/2 cup desiccated coconut, + extra for rolling
  • 2 1/2 tbsp

    coconut oil, melted

  • 2 tbsp

    cacao powder

  • pinch Himalayan pink salt
Instructions
  1. Blitz everything in a high-powered blender or food processor until the mixture starts to go smooth and clump together.  It’s ok if a few bits of cashew nut remain.




  2. Roll the mixture into balls of any size, roll in desiccated coconut (optional) and enjoy straight away or keep in an airtight container in the fridge or freezer (great in summer!) for those snacky moments.




Recipe Notes

This recipe makes 20 large bliss balls, or 40 mini bliss balls.

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3 Comments

  1. Hi Sal, I like to do this recipe but we do not like peanut butter . Is there is something else to replace it? Thanks for all your recipes!
    Rita

    1. Hi Rita, you can replace the peanut butter with any nut butter that you like – almond, macadamia or cashew butter would be perfect! I hope you enjoy them x

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