Healthy Homemade Ferrero Rocher Balls (vegan, gluten-free, refined sugar free)
These healthy homemade ferrero rocher balls are so delicious, indulgent, and made with wholesome ingredients. They are easy to whip up too!
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Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cup roasted hazelnuts
- 12 medjool dates, pitted
- 3 tbsp cacao powder
- 3 tbsp cashew butter
- 2 tbsp pure maple syrup
- 1/4 tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp water
- 15 whole hazelnuts (optional)
Instructions
- Add roasted hazelnuts to a food processor. Process until hazelnuts are chopped into small pieces. Remove 1/4 cup and save for later (rolling the balls in).
- Add the pitted dates, cacao powder, cashew butter, maple syrup, salt, and vanilla. Pulse until mixture is combined thoroughly. Add 1 tsp of water and pulse until ingredients stick together and sticky dough ball forms.
- Scoop about 1.5 Tbsp of dough (I used my 1.5 Tbsp cookie scoop) into your hand and press one whole hazelnut in the center. Roll dough into a ball around it. You don’t have to stick a hazelnut in the center, it just makes it more like a ferrero rocher. Repeat until all dough is used up. I got about 15 balls.
- Roll each ball in the chopped pieces of hazelnuts from earlier that you set aside. Set on a plate and place in the fridge for 1 hour to set. Enjoy! Store in the fridge for a week or the freezer for longer.
Servings: 15 balls