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RECIPE: Amazing Date Balls = AMAZEBALLS

May 23, 2016 //  by Di Hickman//  33 Comments

Amazing Date ball Amazeball recipe2016

I made these little protein balls using a blend of about 3 recipes I’d found online. I don’t like artificial sweeteners or added salt so I nixed those immediately, and what emerged was a mix of ball recipes that I am calling AMAZEBALLS! As my hubs always says “You can never just follow a recipe can you?”. No! Apparently not πŸ˜‰

These little balls were made last week. I knew I’d found a winner immediately when hubs ate them, and liked them! Though he did say they were a little too sweet and too coconutty for his tastes, however that didn’t stop him eating them :/ I took a few to class on Sunday to eat between combat and cxworx and the class members went wild for them, so here is the recipe gals as I remember it:-

PROTEIN AMAZEBALLS!

Ingredients:

  • 25 dates
  • 1/2 cup Coconut flakes
  • 1/4 cup almonds
  • 1/4 cup cashews
  • 1 scoop protein powder

option: chocolate, hemp seeds, coconut to roll in and ‘coat’ the balls.

Directions:
  • Put everything in the mixer
  • Whiz up for 2 minutes until “clumpy” – yes that’s the technical term
  • mold into balls – smaller balls = more balls, bigger balls = fewer balls!
  • place on baking sheet, refrigerate….
  • try not to eat them all at once!
The dates add enough sweetness I don’t think it needs anything else. If you don’t have almonds/cashews I think any nuts would work! That’s the beauty of these balls. I plan on making some with walnuts, peanuts or whatever I have on hand. Thinking some seeds would be good too! Maybe chia, hemp? Figure there are no rules right? It’s a messy mush of nuts and dates? How can you go wrong?

I put wax paper on the baking sheet as one of the recipes said this helped, but I don’t see a problem with these sticking to the baking sheet. They WOULD however stick to each other! So leave room around each ball until it “sets” in the fridge. My balls were around the size of a golf ball I the ingredients above made 14 balls. Next time I’d do them a little bit smaller to get 18 instead. Sometimes 1 was too much, other times not enough but two was too many. Smaller balls!

Why am I calling them amazeballs? Cos they are amazing πŸ˜‰ Plus it sounds much better than hubs suggestion of “protein bollocks”. Which if you don’t know bollocks are they areΒ “testicles”. As with nearly all English words it has multiple meanings but hubs was referring to the shape πŸ˜‰

Although I LOVE these amazeballs I’m still going to try playing with the recipe ingredients, life would be dull if every batch were the same right?

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  1. Rebecca Kelsey Sampson

    May 30, 2016 at 3:16 pm

    This is totally up my alley! I do something similar with dates and peanut butter so I can’t wait to try this variety.

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  2. Terri Steffes

    May 29, 2016 at 2:04 pm

    I cannot wait to try these! My husband loves anything with dates. I just did a post where we stuffed dates with cream cheese and wrapped them with bacon. Delish. Thanks for sharing!

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    • Di Hickman

      May 29, 2016 at 2:24 pm

      I remember having dates with marzipan or some sugary thing in the middle as a kid. So many date recipes!

      Reply
  3. Kelly

    May 26, 2016 at 4:35 pm

    Such a yummy and healthy snack! It’s nice when you can get both of those into one treat!

    Reply
    • Di Hickman

      May 29, 2016 at 2:23 pm

      totally! Whole foods!

      Reply
  4. Amanda Love

    May 26, 2016 at 3:24 pm

    I haven’t heard that word amazeballs in a long time. However I won’t be able to make or eat this since I’m allergic to nuts. πŸ™

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    • Di Hickman

      May 29, 2016 at 2:23 pm

      oh no! Are you allergic to all nuts? I made a similar version for a friend allergic to nuts. Just replaced the nuts with seeds. Bit more chewy but worked. Pepitos, sunflower seeds, sesame, & hemp but any seeds would work

      Reply
  5. Wendy

    May 26, 2016 at 10:59 am

    These sounds really good. Love dates!

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    • Di Hickman

      May 29, 2016 at 2:22 pm

      Me too!

      Reply
  6. Toni

    May 26, 2016 at 8:33 am

    I just learned that I needed to increase my intake of protein for health reasons. This snack would be perfect for me!

    Reply
    • Di Hickman

      May 29, 2016 at 2:21 pm

      Really? Unusual to find someone low on protein. If you need help with that let me know.

      Reply
  7. Debra

    May 26, 2016 at 8:17 am

    I am not sure that I have ever had a date. I should remedy that with this recipe this week!

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    • Di Hickman

      May 29, 2016 at 2:21 pm

      What???? Definitely put them on your shopping list!

      Reply
  8. Heather

    May 26, 2016 at 4:20 am

    These are some of my kids’ favorite snacks. I used to hand chop everything until I got a food processor last year – ridiculous I know.

    Reply
    • Di Hickman

      May 29, 2016 at 2:20 pm

      hahaha the wonders of modern technology huh?

      Reply
  9. Roxanne

    May 25, 2016 at 7:02 pm

    Oh man! I just threw away a whole bag of dates b/c I had no idea what to make with them! Ah well, I’ll keep this on hand.

    Reply
    • Di Hickman

      May 29, 2016 at 2:20 pm

      noooooo! Dates are SO GOOD!

      Reply
  10. alexandria

    May 25, 2016 at 6:51 pm

    I’ve been making protein balls for the past 2 weeks! Mine are a little different, but these sound good, too.

    Reply
    • Di Hickman

      May 29, 2016 at 2:20 pm

      yup they are pretty flexible. I’ve added dried cranberries, different nuts, and rolled them in seeds (hemp.sesame) or coconut. That’s one of the great things about these, so many options!

      Reply
  11. Carolyn

    May 25, 2016 at 6:42 pm

    These sound great. My friend makes something similar and brings them to our bootcamp workout and we all eat them after. It is a great little after workout snack.

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    • Di Hickman

      May 29, 2016 at 2:19 pm

      hahaha I did the same thing, brought them to our yoga retreat!

      Reply
  12. Mary

    May 25, 2016 at 5:23 pm

    These look delicious! I’ve never made protein balls before.

    Reply
    • Di Hickman

      May 29, 2016 at 2:19 pm

      Try them! So good!

      Reply
  13. Amber Nelson

    May 25, 2016 at 4:53 pm

    Those look so good! I need to try these for sure! Great for snacking.

    Reply
    • Di Hickman

      May 29, 2016 at 2:18 pm

      They are! I have them between clients in the afternoon

      Reply
  14. Erin

    May 25, 2016 at 2:40 pm

    Oooooh, that looks so so yummy! My mama loves dates, I bet she would love these. Maybe I’ll earn some daughter points and make these for her πŸ˜‰

    Reply
    • Di Hickman

      May 29, 2016 at 2:18 pm

      Definitely earn daughter points!

      Reply
  15. Rebecca Bryant

    May 25, 2016 at 8:29 am

    I must make these. I am drooling over these yummy goodness.

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    • Di Hickman

      May 29, 2016 at 2:18 pm

      They are so good with hemp seeds too!

      Reply
  16. Robin Masshole Mommy

    May 25, 2016 at 8:01 am

    I have never had anything like these, but they sound awesome. I can’t wait to try these πŸ™‚

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    • Di Hickman

      May 29, 2016 at 2:18 pm

      Definitely do! Energy balls!

      Reply
  17. Rachel Langer

    May 25, 2016 at 7:53 am

    I have made thees too! Minus the protein powder and I added 100% cocoa powder. Way better tasting than you would expect, right?!

    Reply
    • Di Hickman

      May 29, 2016 at 2:18 pm

      Yes they are! I’ve used cocoa powder too, but this time I had leftover chocolate from another recipe and it seemed a shame to waste it πŸ˜‰

      Reply

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