Healthy protein rich peanut butter balls that your kids will love! They won't even be able to tell that these cookies are healthy for them.
Prep Time 30 minutesminutes
Cook Time 0 minutesminutes
Freeze 1 hourhour
Total Time 1 hourhour30 minutesminutes
Servings 52balls
Author Shawna Clapper
Ingredients
1canchickpeasor 2/3 dry chickpeas to boil til soft
¾cuppeanut butter
½ cupmaple syrup
½ cupchocolate chipsdark, vegan
1cupchocolate chipsto melt
2tbspcoconut oilto melt
Instructions
Boil the chickpeas if not using canned.
Take the 'skin' off of each chickpea. Whether canned or dry.
Put the chickpeas, peanut butter and maple syrup in your food processor and turn on low til blended well and smooth
Place mixture in a bowl and add in ½ cup chocolate chips ad mix well.
Let dough sit in the fridge for a few hours.
Roll the dough into balls, about 1 inch or so in diameter. (Does not have to be perfect.)
Freeze for an hour or so.
Melt the rest of the chocolate and the coconut in a double boiler. (Or, use two pots, one smaller than the other; boil water in the bigger pot, and the ingredients in the smaller pot, placed inside the bigger pot.)
Once the chocolate and coconut is melted, roll each ball in the chocolate and place on parchment paper on a cookie sheet.
Freeze the balls in the freezer to help the chocolate harden up. Then keep in the fridge or freezer.