Chocolate, Date, Vegan Energy Balls
These are quick, simple and versatile energy balls that only have 8 ingredients (but if you don't have one, don't worry, you can change it!).
Equipment
- Blender
Ingredients
- 3 cups Oats
- 1 cup Coconut plus extra to roll energy balls in
- 1/4 cup Cocoa
- 1 tsp cinnamon optional
- 1 cup chopped and soaked dates take out seed and chop up, soak in boiling water 10min, keep the soaking water.
- 2 tbsp almond paste or peanut butter, cashew butter... or omit if you like
- 1 cup nuts & seeds you can pick, I like sunflower seeds, pepitas, cashews
- 1 tbsp flaxmeal, chia & hempseeds optional
Instructions
- Place all the ingredients into the blender. Feel free to leave out the seeds if you like a little bit of crunch in your energy balls.
- Blend until it makes a paste. You may need to add some of the water from the soaking dates if its too dry and not sticking together
- Put the mixture into a bowl and add the seeds if you have not added them already. Mix together with a spoon.
- Take out about 1tbsp of the mixture and roll into ball, then place into the coconut.
- Eat right away or leave in the fridge for up to 7days