Cocoa-Walnut Date Bites

Dates, walnuts and cocoa blitzed into fudgy no-bake bites in one food-processor bowl. They taste like truffles and travel like trail mix.

Serves 620 minutes plant-basedveggiegluten-freedairy-free

• ✓Dates do all the sweetening — no added sugar in the bowl.
• ✓Walnuts are one of the few nuts rich in omega-3 fats.
• ✓Cocoa powder is a concentrated source of polyphenols.

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Ingredients

• •1 cup / 175 g soft Medjool dates, pitted
• •1 cup / 100 g walnuts
• •½ cup / 70 g almonds
• •3 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
• •1 tbsp chia seeds
• •pinch of flaky salt
• •2–3 tsp water, only if needed
• •shredded coconut for rolling (optional)

Method

1. Blitz the walnuts and almonds in a food processor to coarse crumbs.
2. Add the dates, cocoa, chia and salt; run until the mixture clumps and holds when pinched. Add water a teaspoon at a time if it stays sandy.
3. Roll into walnut-sized balls; roll half of them in coconut if you like the contrast.
4. Firm up in the fridge 20 minutes if you can wait that long.

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