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Carob or chocolate balls can be made quickly.<\/p>\n
In a food processor, grind fine: Add 10 pitted soft soaked\u00a0Medjool dates\u00a0(the sweetener) and grind in food processor until the nut-date mixture sticks together well.<\/p>\n Optional:<\/em> Add 1\/2 teaspoon vanilla, mint or\u00a0cherry extract and a little water as needed for processing.<\/p>\n Add 1\/3 cup\u00a0carob powder\u00a0or raw cacao powder and blend in processor until formed.<\/p>\n By hand make balls an inch or so round and chill in the refrigerator.<\/p>\n Optional:<\/em> mix 1\/4 cup chopped dried bing cherries into the mixture by hand before you roll the balls.<\/p>\n Optional:<\/em> roll in sesame seeds, flax seeds, ground\u00a0almonds\u00a0or walnuts, or\u00a0shredded coconut\u00a0for decoration and extra flavor.<\/p>\n Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carob or chocolate balls can be made quickly. In a food processor, grind fine: 1 1\/4 cup raw unsoaked\u00a0walnuts A dash of sea salt\u00a0(most flavorful and nutritious) Add 10 pitted soft soaked\u00a0Medjool dates\u00a0(the sweetener) and grind in food processor until the nut-date mixture sticks together well. Optional: Add 1\/2 teaspoon vanilla, mint or\u00a0cherry extract and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1008,"featured_media":3456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[387,5,377],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/healthfree.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/easy-healthy-chocolate-balls.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/healthfree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4636,"href":"https:\/\/healthfree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions\/4636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthfree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthfree.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1 1\/4 cup raw unsoaked\u00a0walnuts
\nA dash of sea salt<\/a>\u00a0(most flavorful and nutritious)<\/p>\n