Gluten-free Cocoa Nut Balls

Recipe Description:

Rich Chocolate. Gooey, Chewy crunchiness. Gluten-free and flour-less. Easy and fast to make. I love these balls! 🙂 I have included the instructions for soaking the nuts to remove phytates at the beginning of the instructions. Omit if you don’t choose to soak your nuts (they are much easier for your body to digest that way though!).

Prep Time: 10 Minutes

Cook Time: n/a

Servings: 16 balls

Difficulty: Easy

Recipe Ingredients:

1 cup almonds

1/2 cup sunflower seeds

1/2 cup raisins

1/4 cup raw honey

1/4 cup melted butter

1/2 cup cocoa powder

1/4 cup sucanat

1/4 cup cocoa powder

Recipe Instructions:

Soak and dehydrate nuts and seeds

Place almonds in a jar. Add 1 t. of sea salt. Fill with water and soak for 7 hours or overnight. Place sunflower seeds in jar. Add 1/4 t. sea salt. Cover with water and soak for 7 hours or overnight. Drain all nuts and dehydrate with dehydrator for 12-24 hours.

Assemble Nut Balls

Place sunflower seeds and almonds in blender and grind until coarse. Add raisins and grind until the raisins are in small pieces. Slowly add honey, melted butter and 1/2 cup cocoa while blending. It may get too thick to blend. In that case remove from blender and stir vigorously by hand. In clean blender, grind the sucanat until it is powder. Mix with the rest of the cocoa powder and pour into a bowl. Shape “dough” into 1″ balls and roll in sucanat/cocoa mixture. Place on cookie sheet. Refrigerate until serving.

Author: WittyMelinda

Melinda is a 22 year old farm girl with a love for Jesus, people and...cooking whole foods. She's a happy farm girl who milks her beloved Jersey cows. Her mom became familiar with Sally Fallon’s Nourishing Traditions a few years ago when her older sister who has down’s syndrome started having relapses and digression. Now, as the family cook, she trying to find ways to implement her ideas into everyday meals. View all posts by WittyMelinda

2 thoughts on “Gluten-free Cocoa Nut Balls”

Do you think I could do the processing in a food processor instead of a blender? Or would that not make the nuts grind up finely enough. I am just thinking it might be easier, as it’s difficult to remove doughs from my blender. What a great recipe!! I bet these would freeze well also and so be ready for guests that suddenly appear. 😀

WittyMelinda says:

February 10, 2012 at 7:01 am

actually, when I make these next, I will blend the nuts in a blender and then mix them in a food processor with the other ingredients. It is a little difficult to remove/mix dough in a blender. I’m sure they would freeze well and that is a very good idea! 🙂

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