Summer is in full swing and I don't know about you but I always want sweet things even more in the summer! (Ok let's face it any season is an excuse for me to have sweets) Like any good idea lately I found this recipe on Pinterest. You can follow me, sassycassy@gmail.com. The original recipe called for an enormous amount of the ingredients so I scaled back. Didn't want to have too many sweet treats around to tempt me.
The ingredients are simple: 10 pitted medjool dates,
2 Tbsp cacao powder
2 tsp coconut oil
If your dates aren't pitted just cut them in half and take out the pit. Put the dates and cacao powder in a high powered blender or food processor. I used the single serve container on my Ninja. More about my love of the Ninja in a post real soon. Pulse them till the dates are all mashed up. Then add the coconut oil and pulse again. When everything is good and gooey scrape it all out and put in a bowl. Refrigerate for about 15 min so it's cool and easy to work with.
Now the fun begins, roll them into the size you would like. I made mine pretty small and got 18 truffles, I will keep to myself how much I "sampled". You can roll them in more cacao powder or almonds like I did. Obviously you can use any nut you would like. Also you can cocoa powder that just breaks the rules of being raw, which you may or may not care about. I'm pretty sure some powdered sugar would taste great too.
So there you have it, a quick easy to make, guilt free snack!
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