These healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Balls taste like a fancy-pants chocolate truffle; only they're healthy!
If you're into sweet treats that aren't overly sweet and leave you energised rather than a sugar crash, baby, you've got the best recipe there is. Dates, peanut butter, collagen, and you're 3/4 of the way there.
Make a batch and keep 'em in the freezer or fridge.
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Here's how to make a batch...
Pop everything into your blender and process...
Using a cookie scoop, roll heaped spoonfuls of the mixture into golf ball size balls.
Then roll the balls in the crushed peanut mixture.
Repeat until all the mixture is rolled and pop in the fridge to set for 1 hour.
Then gobble up and enjoy.
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Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls
- Total Time: 1 hour 5 minutes
- Yield: 14
Description
If healthy peanut butter balls are your thing, you'll love my Stace twist on it. It's packed with protein, collagen, almonds and even peanut butter. The result is a smooth ball that is SO fudgy and not overly sweet, my kind of snack. You eat it and feel energised and ready for the afternoon!
Ingredients
Rolling peanuts:
1/3 cup peanuts, crushed
Balls:
12 medjool dates (or 1 cup pitted dates)
1 cup almond meal
1/2 cup peanut butter
3 tbsp raw cacao powder
1 tspn vanilla
2 tbsp collagen or protein powder (can leave out)
15g raw cacao butter (that was 6 buttons for me) or use 1 tbsp coconut oil
Instructions
Boil the jug and cover your dates with hot water.
Pop your peanuts in a blender and pulse until they're nice and crushed. You're after them being a texture crumb so the balls can roll and stick to them easily. Pour onto a plate when done.
Drain the dates and pop them with the remaining ingredients into a blender. Process until all the date chunks are gone, and it's lovely and fudge-like. It took me about 1.30 mins on Speed 5 in my Thermomix.
Roll the mixture into balls using a cookie scoop or a heaped tbsp. Then, roll in the crushed peanuts and place them on a plate before letting them set in the fridge for 1 hour.
Notes
These freeze AMAZINGLY, so make a double-batch and eat them directly from the freezer. They'll slow you down.
Penaut-free: Sub for almonds or cashew butter.
Nut-free: Sub the peanuts for sunflower button and roll in hemp or sesame seeds.
- Prep Time: 5mins
- Cook Time: 1 hour
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