Raw Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls
- Total Time: 10
- Yield: 12
Ingredients
Units
- 150g blanched almond meal
- 3 medjool dates, pitted
- 1/4 tsp fine sea salt
- 1/4 tsp bicarbonate soda
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla powder
- 2 Tbspns ghee, butter or coconut oil
- 50g dairy free, dark chocolate, chopped into small bits
Instructions
- Place the almond meal, dates, salt, soda, vanilla, and ghee/butter/coconut oil into the Thermomix bowl and blend 30 sec/speed 9. (Or process until it resembles fine crumbs in a food processor.)
- Add chopped chocolate and mix in for 5 sec/speed 3 (or by hand).
- Press dough together to form 12 walnut sized balls, and set on a plate. Refrigerate until firm.
Notes
Leave out the chocolate bits and try one of these variations
- 1 tsp of cinnamon
- a few drops of lemon essential oil (food grade, eg. DoTERRA)
- a small handful of currants and 1/2 tsp of mixed spice
- 1/2 tsp mixed spice and 1 tsp ginger powder
- 1 Tbspn Dutch cocoa powder and a few drops of peppermint essential oil
- Nut free: use 75g each desiccated coconut and pepitas, mill until fine, then add remaining dough ingredients