It’s Easter 2021!!! Yay!!!

…And, it has been many many moons since my last blog post here!

(To go straight to the recipe, scroll below!)

…The moons we all experienced in 2020, over the last year certainly presented new and challenging situations for humanity, and each one of us to navigate and grow through – as a global family, we are very much still navigating and traversing these challenges and new approaches to how we live and go about our day-to-day lives, and this humble little blog had a little ‘2020’ hiatus of sorts as I navigated the changing world and took time to engage in further study, training and creative ‘offline – time’!

It feels so incredibly good to finally be back to the blog, sharing a fresh wholesome and brand new recipe with you!

And, while this post is actually about this delicious – lush and wholesomely scrumptious new recipe, I couldn’t go ahead and get straight into talking about it, without first saying a proper ‘Hello’ once again and acknowledging how good it feels to be back here, sharing on this humble little page with you.

I also hope this finds YOU and your loved ones well, thriving and finding nourishment in life’s daily magical moments and miracles!

…So, let’s get into this recipe!!!

Lush, chocolatey (though it’s really ‘caroby’), decadent tasting and yet unbelievably simple in both ingredients AND preparation.

If you have been looking for a wholesome, quick, simple, easy and feel-good choccy Easter treat to make for yourself, your friends or your family – look no further! :)

Full disclosure. I came up with this recipe in a hurry, when looking in my pantry and fridge for ingredients that I could make a ‘treat’ out of to bring to a girlfriends place for a Women’s circle I was going to. I had only 10mins before I had to leave the house. I had had a really full day, didn’t have anything pre-prepared and was unsure of what I could pull off in just 10mins – and definitely didn’t want to arrive to this beautiful gathering empty handed!

…What happened next was a ‘foody’ miracle’, (hehe), and – the ‘birth’ of this here recipe!

Dramatic language I know, but I’m honestly so excited about how simple and obvious this lush truffle recipe is that I am actually not afraid of sounding over the top and dramatic about it at all! :)

Medjool dates – Tahini – Carob – Cinnamon – Salt AND woman-power (my/your hands!)

With no time to get the food processor out, (and no need as if you’ve ever eaten a Medjool date you will know how soft and sumptuous they are!) I quickly removed the pit’s from my dates, combined these 5 core ingredients together in a bowl, and with clean dry hands proceeded to massage everything in the bowl together, into one luscious datey-caroby-tahine-y clump, and then into a dozen bite sized lush truffle balls to take with me!

The result…. A batch of lush, truffle-like, chocolate-free, sugar-free, no-fuss and super lush and delicious (…every woman at the circle asked for the recipe!) wholesome treats.

Treats that take only 6 ingredients. Require zero food processor (unless you prefer to not get messy with your hands). Can be made in less than 10mins AND, most importantly, that feel sooo lush, you may even say that if they were covered in a chocolate coating they would be a modern day wholesome Ferraro Rocher! (Btw, I’ve tried them covered in home-made raw chocolate, and it is amazing too!)

Without further-adue, let’s get Wholesome Easter Carob Truffle ball rolling!!!

First, a few key tips, before you get ball-making: 

• Make sure your hands are clean and dry as we are about to combine everything with your hands!  …Yes, no food processor needed, just your beautiful bare hands. …This part is a little messy, however so deliciously fun, tactile, creative-feeling, time saving, dish-saving (yay for not having to clean the food processor after!) and no-fuss!
• Carob powder like any powder can naturally get a little ‘clumpy’. Before adding your Carob powder, have a look at your powder and if you notice any lumps take the back of your spoon and gently ‘smoosh’ them out, so that your powder will blend and mix seamlessly when you get to mixing and combining everything with your hands! 
  
• If you are not into the idea of using your hands to make this mix, (I get it, it’s messy and definitely not everyone’s thing!) you can absolutely use a food processor to do it all instead, and they will still be super delicious and luscious! :)

Wholesome Carob Truffle Balls Recipe!

(Make approx 15 balls!)

Ingredients:

• 20 Medjool dates (with pits removed)
• 3 tbsp Hulled Tahini (unhulled will work fine also, but just have a richer/earthier taste!)
• ¼ tsp Sea Salt or Himalayan Salt
• 2.5 tbsp Carob powder (you could use Raw Cacao powder instead if you’re not a Carob lover or don’t have any Carob in the pantry!)
• ½ tsp Cinnamon powder
• 4 tbsp of desiccated or shredded coconut (for rolling them in at the end!)
• Your love!

Creation process:

Step 1 – Making the mix:

1. Remove the pits from the inside of 20 Medjool dates and place the dates in your favourite bowl.
2. With clean, dry hands, use your hands to ‘massage’, soften and ‘squish’ the dates into one another.
3. Next add 3 tbsp of Tahini, ¼ tsp of Sea salt, 2.5 tbsp of Carob powder and ½ tsp of Cinnamon powder to your date bowl and begin to combine (this is where it get’s a little rustic and messy, but so fun!) all ingredients together with your hands by massaging the tahini, carob, salt and cinnamon into the dates for 1-2mins or until you feel they are well combined. Put your love into the mix and enjoy this creative, tactile and up-close and personal moment with your delicious ‘truffle ball’ mix! It can feel really therapeutic, stress relieving and like a lovely foody-meditation! :)

Step 2 – Rolling your truffle balls:

1. Take a small piece of your mix in your hand and roll it into a little ball with the palms of your hands until it is nice and compact, and a beautiful round sphere shape!
2. To coat the balls in shredded coconut, place your shredded coconut in a small bowl and roll each truffle ball into the coconut until satisfactorily covered! :)
3. Repeat this final step for each ball and ~ they’re ready to be served!!! Yay!!!

Pro tip: If you have a little more time up your sleeve, place them in the fridge for 10-20mins to let them harden a little before serving. (Doing this gives them a crazy ‘caramel-snickers-bar’ like texture that might really help hit that nostalgic chocolate bar–craving spot! :)

Yay!!

Enjoy!!

 

“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”

~Hermann Hesse

 

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Wishing you and your loved ones a magical happy Easter and I hope this simple – yet super lush Wholesome Carob truffle treat recipe hits your yum-spot and inspires some relaxed, meditatively-messy hands on fun in the Kitchen these holidays!

And, as Mr.Hesse says in his quote above… Though we are living in some wild and uncertain times, we must have faith that we are ‘not going in circles, but that we are infact going upwards!’ May we keep ourselves nourished and have faith in life and one another’s goodness, always!

With love,

x Lorien