HOLIDAY RECIPE ALERT. These Spiced Date-Nut Balls are a fun cookie alternative.
No sugar, no flour, digestive spices and healthful seeds. You can actually build a snowman out of this dough. ☃️
1/ 3 cup almonds
1/ 3 cup walnuts
1/ 3 pumpkin or sunflower seeds
10 dates, pitted (sub in some dried cranberries and apricots to feel festive!)
1/ 4 tsp cardamom, cinnamon
Few drops of orange oil, or 1/ 4 tsp orange zest
Food process to a paste. Fridge it one hour. Form into bite size balls and display on a tray. You can roll these in coconut, hemp seed, or cocoa powder. Get the kids involved, making balls, logs, snowmen- you can roll it out on wax paper and use small cookie cutters as well, pressing any of the above into the tops.