Gluten free chocolate power bar balls

by | May 3, 2011 | Columns, Elana's Gluten-Free Pantry, Featured | 0 comments


Chocolate power bar balls

photo provided courtesy of elanaspantry.com


This scrumptious, dairy free, gluten free, vegan, super transportable snack is a power bar in the form of balls. What I love most about it though is the flavor –they taste like raw cookie dough!

This recipe came from a comment on my Cuisinart Giveaway post, left by Karen; it is also similar to another recipe that many people mentioned on that post as their fave recipe, called Fudge Babies. Since these have just a tad sweeter than Fudge Babies, we were joking around, calling them Fudge Children, and Fudge Adolescents.


ingredients
1 cup Medjool dates, pitted
2 cups walnuts
½ cups dark chocolate chips 73% cacao
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
¼ teaspoon celtic sea salt
1 teaspoon water (if necessary)


directions

  1. Place dates, walnuts and chocolate in food processor
  2. Pulse on high speed until the texture of coarse gravel
  3. Pulse in vanilla and salt (if necessary, add water so that dough forms a big ball)
  4. Form mixture into one inch balls
  5. Serve

recipe courtesy elanaspantry.com

Author

  • Julie Genser, founder of Planet Thrive

    Earthwalker is the username that PT founder Julie Genser created for her online interactions so many years ago when first creating Planet Thrive.

    Julie's (Earthwalker's) life was derailed over twenty years ago when she had a very large organic mercury exposure after she naively used a mouth thermometer to measure the temperature of just-boiled milk while making her very first pizza at home. The mercury instantly expanded into a gas form and exploded out the back of the thermometer right into her face. Unaware that mercury was the third most neurotoxic element on Earth, Julie had no idea she had just received a very high dose of a poisonous substance.

    A series of subsequent toxic exposures over the next few years -- to smoke from two fires (including 9/11), toxic mold, lyme disease, and chemical injuries -- caused catastrophic damage to her health. While figuring out how to survive day-to-day, and often minute-to-minute, she created Planet Thrive to help others avoid some of the misdiagnoses and struggles she had experienced.

    She has clawed her way over many health mountains to get to where she is today. She is excited to bring the latest iteration of Planet Thrive to the chronic illness community.

    In 2019, Julie published her very first cookbook e-book called Low Lectin Lunches (+ Dinners, Too!) after discovering how a low lectin, gluten free diet was helping manage her chronic fascia/muscle pain.

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