Cacao Bliss Balls

I try not to eat too much sugar but I do love chocolate and definitely feel like I need some most days at 3pm.  These are the perfect healthy snack to satisfy these cravings. The raw cacao sates the desire for the chocolate and the nuts make this fulfilling enough that you can generally stop after one (or maybe two…)

1 cup raw almonds

½ cup walnuts

2 heaped tbspn almond meal

1 heaped tbspn raw cacao

1 tspn cinnamon

½ tspn ground cardamom

250g dried figs, quartered

½ cup goji berries

2 tbspn coconut oil, melted

extra raw cacao

Place nuts and spices in a food processor. Pulse til nuts are chopped. Add figs and goji berries. Pulse again until figs are chopped and mixed through. Add coconut oil and pulse until combined. Roll mixture into balls and place on a tray lined with non stick paper. Sift over extra raw cacao and roll balls in the cacao until they are covered. Store in an airtight container in the fridge.

(If your figs are really dry, soak in boiling water for five minutes before you use them)

You can also substitute any of the dried fruit, nuts or spices, and roll in shredded coconut instead of or combined with the cacao. If you want a softer paste, you can also add more coconut oil.