I seem to really love the combo of raspberries and chocolate at the moment. The colour and the taste combo; perfection I think. I came up with these tasty little treats for my kid’s lunchboxes today (I did have 1 too). All natural goodness, gluten, dairy, and refined sugar free. They have a little surprise inside…
You Will Need:
2 cups of desiccated coconut
3 tablespoons cacao powder
½ a cup of freeze-dried raspberries
12 freeze-dried raspberries for the centre
1- 2 tablespoons maple syrup or honey to taste
2 tablespoons coconut oil (melted)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon salt
What To Do:
- Blitz raspberries in your blender or food processor. Don’t make them dust, you want a bit of crunch, so process to tiny pieces.
- In a medium-size bowl mix together all ingredients including the blitzed raspberries but excluding the 12 raspberries for the centre.
- Add a little more coconut oil if needed to get a rollable consistency.
- Take a teaspoon of mixture in your hand, add one of the whole dried raspberries to the centre, then add another teaspoon on top and roll into a ball carefully so you don’t break the raspberry centre if possible.
- You could leave out the centre raspberry if you like, buts that’s the surprise and the kids like it.
- Place the balls in the fridge for ½ an hour, then eat yourself 🙂 or pop one in your children’s lunch-box for a little treat.
- Makes 12 balls.
