This year’s halloween date balls are inspired by the animated creatures “Susuwatari” from the animated movie “Spirited Away”:
These ball contains lots of dried fruits and nuts, as well as a lot of spices often associated with Christmas (at least in Denmark). They also do not contain gluten, refined sugar, or animal products!
I made these for a workshop, where I wanted the participants to enjoy a nice snack, while not becoming tired after eating too much sugar.
Vegan Spiced Date Balls
Ingredients
- 15 g coconut oil
- 100 g dried dates
- 100 g almonds
- 50 g hazelnuts
- ¼ tsp nutmeg grounded
- ⅛ tsp cardamom grounded
- ⅛ tsp cloves grounded
- 75 g dried apricot
- 50 g dried cranberries
- 25 g walnuts
- 30 vegan white chocolate chips about 15 g
- 75 g vegan dark chocolate
- 50 g chocolate sprinkles
Instructions
- Warm the coconut oil in a pan till it has melted
- Removed the seeds from the dates if there are any
- Blend the dates till smooth together with the coconut oil
- Pour the dates into a bowl
- Now blend the almonds and hazelnuts till it has turned into flour
- Mix the dates, almonds, hazelnuts, nutmeg, cardamom, and cloves
- Chop the dried cranberries finely and the apricot and walnuts into larger chunks
- Chop the dried apricot and walnuts into larger chunks
- Mix the dates with cranberries, apricot, and walnuts
- Roll the dough into 15 balls
- Melt the dark chocolate in a waterbath
- Pour the sprinkles onto a plate
- Insert a toothpick into one of the balls and dip it in dark chocolate, then immediately roll the ball in the sprinkles
- Put the ball on a piece of baking paper to dry
- Do this for all the balls
- Put the leftover dark chocolate in a piping bag and make a clip a small hole at the end of the bag
- Make a pupil on each white chocolate chip and make some arms and legs on the baking paper, which the balls are laying on
- Heat a bit of dark chocolate in a waterbath again when the balls, legs, arms, and eyes are dry
- Use a toothpick to put a bit of chocolate at the back of the eyes and press them onto the balls. Do the same thing with the legs and arms
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