Peanut butter and date energy balls

Name: Peanut butter and date energy balls
Total time: 25 min
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 200g medjool dates, stoned; 100g smooth peanut butter; 100g gluten free porridge oats; 2 tbsp cocoa powder; 1 tbsp coconut oil; 1 pinch of salt; 30g desiccated coconut, for rolling

Soft, sticky little balls of peanut butter, dates and oats that pack plenty of energy into a few bites.

Time25 mins
LevelEasy
Costabout £0.24 a head

12 servings

Ingredients

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200 gmedjool datesstoned
100 gsmooth peanut butter
100 ggluten free porridge oats
2 tbspcocoa powder
1 tbspcoconut oil
1pinch of salt
30 gdesiccated coconutfor rolling

Method

1
Soak the dates in hot water for 10 minutes if they feel hard, then drain well.
10 min
2
Blend the oats in a food processor for 20 seconds until they look like coarse flour.
3
Add the dates, peanut butter, cocoa, coconut oil and salt. Blitz for 1 minute until the mixture clumps into a sticky dough.
4
Roll heaped teaspoons of the mixture into balls with damp hands.
5
Roll each ball in the desiccated coconut.
6
Chill for 20 minutes to firm up. Keep in the fridge for up to a week.
20 min

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