4 of our Favourite Energy Ball Recipes to Get You Through The Day! - Nourish Blog (2024)

No. 1 – The Little Green Spoon: Coconut Cacao Balls

Makes roughly 8-10 balls

Ingredients

• Desiccated Coconut (90g) – 1 Cup
• Ground Almonds (60g) – 1/2 Cup
• Dates (150g) – 1 Cup
• Cacao Powder – 2 Tablespoons
• Maple Syrup/Honey – 1 Tablespoon
• Pinch of Coarse Salt

Directions

• Add the dates to a bowl and pour boiling water over them, then leave them to soak.
• Add the desiccated coconut to your food processor and blitz until you have a really fine dust.
• Pour half of it into a bowl and leave the other half in the food processor.
• Add the ground almonds, cacao powder and salt to the food processor and blitz until combined.
• Drain the dates and add them to the coconut-almond mixture.
• Blitz until blended evenly and you have a crumbly, mushy mixture.
• Add in the tablespoon of sweetener and blitz until you have a smoothish dough.
• Use your hands to roll the mixture into little balls, then roll them in the finely ground coconut you kept aside at the start.
• Pop them in the fridge and munch with delight 🙂

No. 2 – Emily’s Acai Cacao Balls

This energy ball recipe comes from Yours Truly and combines two of my favourite ingredients:Cacao and Acai.
Interestingly, the word cacao (theobroma cacao) translates to ‘food of the gods’. And for good reason no? Cacao trees produce fruits (pods) which contain cacao seeds. From these seeds cacao solids and butter are extracted which can be used to make delicious chocolates.
Learn more about cacao here in What’s the Scoop On: Cacao.

Acai Berries are an Amazonian fruit from Brazil and are incrediblyrich in antioxidants.
They are choc-full of polyphenols and essential fatty acids 3,6 and 9. Overall, these berries are brilliant for overall nutrition and as a beauty supplement.

Makes roughly 6-8 balls

Ingredients

• 8Medjool dates(if you have pitted, soak them in boiling water for 10-20 mins to get them a bit juicier then add them in. The texture won’t be the same but it is better than none at all!)
• Raisins – 1 Tbsp
• Almond Butter – 1 Tbsp
• Raw Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil – 1 and 1/2 – 2 Tbsp
• Maple syrup – 1-2 Tbsp (depending on how sweet you want them)
• Cacao powder – 3-4 Tbsp + 1 Tbsp for dusting the outside (rough measurements – use how much coversthe balls)
• Cacao nibs – 1-2 Tbsp (I like mine crunchy so I add in a whole load. Plus they are very bitter so the contrast of bitter and sweet is mouth-wateringly good!)
• Acai powder – 1 Tbsp
• A pinch ofsea saltorHimalayan salt(check if your almond butter has salt – you may want to reduce the pinch size!)

Directions

• Throw everything into the food processor except for the cacao nibs. These give a nice crunch if you throw them in at the end.
  Add them when everything else has formed into a dough-like texture and pulse them in a couple of times to evenly distribute them.
• Once everything is combined nicely, use a spoon and roll them into ball shapes.
• Roll them in cacao powder to coat
• Put into a lunch box or tray and pop them in the freezer.
• Alternatively, you can put them in the fridge for a few hours until they harden up.

No. 3 – Deliciously Ella – Banana Bread Energy Bites

Makes roughly 30 bites

Ingredients

• Almonds – 2 cups
• Medjool Dates – 2 cups(if you have pitted, soak them in boiling water for 10-20 mins to get them a bit juicier. Then add them in – the texture won’t be the same but it is better than none at all!)
• 2 over-ripe Bananas
• Ground Flaxseed – 1/2 a cup
• MacaPowder – 3 tablespoons
• Chia Seeds – 3 tablespoons

Directions

• First, place the almonds in your food processor and blend for a minute or two until they break up and start to form a flour-like mix.
• Then gradually add the pitted dates, peeled bananas, flax, maca and chia as the mix continues to blend. After a few minutes, the mixture should be smooth and sticky, at which point the balls are ready to be rolled.
• Use a teaspoon to scoop up a batch of the dough, then roll it in your hands to form a ball. Place the ball on a plate and continue doing the exact same thing until you’ve used all the mixture.
• If you want to add goji berries or chia seeds to the outside then roll the balls in either before placing the plate of bites in the freezer for a couple of hours to set before enjoying.
• Store them either in the fridge or freezer.

No. 4 – Madeleine Shaw – Get The Glow Spirulina Balls

Ingredients

• Cashew Nuts – 100g
• Pumpkin Seeds – 150g
• Tiny pinch ofsalt
• Cinnamon – 1 Tsp
• Spirulina powder – 1 Tsp
• Medjoul dates – 200g
• Coconut oil – 2 Tbsp
• Zest of 1 small orange

Directions

• Blend the nuts and seeds in a food processor for a minute
• Then add the rest of the ingredients, blend to allow everything to combine
• Roll the mixture into balls and pop them in the fridge.
• Leave them to set for an hour, then enjoy.

  These balls will keep in the fridge for about 2 weeks – if you can make them last that long!!

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