Chocolate Peanut Butter Bites
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 1 dozen 1x
- Category: Snacks
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
Scale
1 cup pitted/packed medjool dates
¼ cup natural peanut butter
¼ cup roasted peanuts
3 tablespoons unsweetened coconut flakes
2 tablespoons hemp seeds
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
¼ teaspoon salt (see note)
Cocoa powder, for rolling
Instructions
- Place all the ingredients, minus the salt. Pulse until everything comes together. Add a splash or two of water if needed. The crumbled mixture should easily come together.
- Take roughly 2 tablespoons of the mixture and roll into a ball. Continue and roll mixture into 12 balls and place in the refrigerator. Place a couple tablespoons of cocoa powder on a plate and roll the balls in the cocoa powder.
- Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a week.
Notes
Tips & Tricks: Taste your mixture first before adding salt. I’ve found that peanut butter that has added salt will change the amount needed for extra salt.
Stock up: get the pantry ingredients you will need: dates, peanuts/hemp seeds
Link: Recipe lightly adapted from Sarah Waldman's cookbook, Feeding a Family.
Keywords: date balls, peanut butter balls
Find it online: https://naturallyella.com/chocolate-peanut-butter-bites/