You will need:-
100g dark chocolate (I used 85%)
Two decent hands full of dates
Approx. 1 cup of flaked or dessicated coconut
About two tablespoons of flaxseed (use ground almonds if you don’t have flax)
one jar of almond butter
2 tablespoons coconut oil
To make these dark, soft, caramelly beauties:-
Soak your dates for an hour or so in water, then pour away the excess water. This softens them nicely.
Blitz the dates to a lovely soft mush.
Add in the almond butter and blitz again for a couple of minutes until it’s fluffy(ish). It will start to look a bit like caramel.
Add the coconut and flax, then the melted (but not hot) coconut oil.
Once it’s a nice (firm) mix, put it in the fridge for an hour to harden a little. This makes it easier to roll into little balls.
When you take it out of the fridge, start melting your chocolate over a bain-marie.
Roll the datey mixture across your palm into little balls, then drop each one into the melted chocolate and move about until it is all coated in black goop.
Remove with a teaspoon and place on greaseproof paper to harden.
Keep them in the fridge and nibble with guilt-free satisfaction.
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