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Healthy Nut Butter Date Bites
These Healthy Chocolate Covered Nut Butter Date Bites are the perfect snack for when you’re craving something sweet. Reminiscent of a gooey snickers bar, these will rock your world! They are entirely sugar-free (other than the naturally occurring sugars in dates), vegan, and an all-around easy, healthy treat. Enjoy!
Ingredients
- 12 soft dates
- 12 teaspoons peanut butter, or any other nut butter
- 1/8 cup cacao butter
- 1/4 cup cacao powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- pinch of sea salt
Instructions
- First, pit the dates and press your finger into the gap to form a ‘pocket’. Add a teaspoon, or more depending on the size of your dates, of any nut butter you wish. I recommend peanut butter, almond butter, or sun butter, but anything will do! Once all the dates have been filled transfer them to the freezer to harden.
- Meanwhile, make the chocolate drizzle or coating (depending on how much chocolate you want to have on these bad boys). Start by melting the cacao butter in a microwave safe bowl at high in 30 second increments, stirring in between, until it’s melted. You can also do this in a pan on a stove top. Once melted, mix in the cacao powder a tablespoon at a time. Once fully incorporated add the vanilla and sea salt.
- This chocolate ‘sauce’ will harden once you drizzle it over your Nut Butter Date Bites. So coat as you wish!
Notes
- If you’d like to fully coat the dates rather than drizzle them then I recommend upping the cacao butter to a 1/4 cup and the cacao powder to 1/2 cup. You can always turn the leftovers into small homemade chocolates(in that case you might want to add a bit of sweetener to it)!
- You can always skip the chocolate making steps and just buy ready made dark chocolate, which you can then melt just like the cacao butter.
- You can add more texture to these by adding some peanuts or other nuts/seeds on top of the peanut butter before putting the bites into the fridge to harden.
