Cacao & Coconut Energy Balls

Posted on February 25, 2019 by teesnutrition

Literally just whipped these up this evening. I was craving something sweet so made do with whatever ingredients I had in my cupboard to make these balls. Energy/Protein balls are so versatile, you can be so inventive with them and change around ingredients as well. I made these within a half an hour and got around 11 golf sized balls outta the below mixture.

Ingredients

200g pitted dates soaked in water (keep water aside after draining the dates)

70g cashew butter (can use alternative nut butter)

50g cacao powder

50g gluten free oats (you can use regular oats, I just used these so ma sista can eat them too)

2 tbsp milled flaxseed

good handful of desiccated coconut for coating the balls

Method

Soak the dates in warm water.
Meanwhile, place the rest of the ingredients in a blender/food processor – cashew butter, cacao powder, oats and flaxseed.
Drain the dates but keep the water aside. Add the dates to the processor and blend.
If you find the mixture is too dry, add some of the water in – not too much because the mixture could get too wet. You don’t want it to be too sticky.
Once you’re happy with the mixture. Roll into golf sized balls and roll the balls in the desiccated coconut to coat.

coconut balls

Enjoy 🙂

Tee. X

Seedy Cacao Balls

Posted on November 4, 2017 by teesnutrition

Long time no new recipe!! I definitely haven’t given myself the time to try anything new recently but decided to mess around with a few ingredients during the week and came up with these energy balls. To be honest you can be as creative as you like with energy/protein balls, that’s the great thing about them and why you’ll probably find so many different recipes for them out there. But they’re a great snack to have ready especially when you’re on the go. I made these at the start of the weekend and they lasted me for the week ahead, I had one every day for my mid-morning snack 🙂

These are the ingredients and method I used but feel free to use it as a guideline and leave out or include different ingredients if you fancy 😀

Ingredients

200g pitted/medjool dates (medjool dates are probably best to use as they’re softer but are more expensive so go half pitted/half medjool if you wish..just make sure to take out the pit if you’re using medjool!)

100g warm water

60g cacao powder

200g mixed seeds (sunflower/pumpkin)

40g bee pollen

40g cacao nibs

40g goji berries

1 tsp of himalayan salt

desiccated coconut/chia seed to coat the balls

Method

Soak your dates in the warm water for 5-10 minutes.
In a food processor, put the dates, water and cacao powder and blitz until combined.
Add the seeds and pulse again until roughly combined.
Add the bee pollen, cacao nibs, goji berries and salt and blitz again.
The mixture should have come together now.
Using your hands, weigh out the balls at 50g each and roll into a ball.
Once they are all weighed out. Roll the balls in desiccated coconut or chia seeds if you like, you can also leave them plain and not cover them in anything.
To store them, keep them in an airtight container in the fridge as this will keep them for longer. They should keep like this for up to a week or 2 weeks max.