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Cookies for Breakfast?

Who says you can't have cookies for breakfast? Not this Mama provided they are made with healthy, clean ingredients like those in these Cookie Dough Balls.

I often make my Easy Peasy Energy Balls for breakfast, but sometimes I just want to make an energy ball that is simple, yet complex in flavor while also feeling like a decadent treat. For layers of rich flavors, I recommend the flour blend in parenthesis. For a larger crowd, double the recipe.

5 Ingredient Choc Chip Cookie Dough Balls

(Yields 16 balls)

Ingredients

• 1 ½ cups almond flour  (or 1 ¼ almond flour & ¼ c flax meal)

• 2 Medjool dates, pitted

• ¼ tsp. sea salt

• ¼ cup coconut oil*

• chocolate chips or cacao nibs

Optional

• ½ Tbsp. Vanilla extract 

• ½ Tbsp. ground cinnamon

• ½ - 1 Tbsp. gelatin or protein powder

• 1 - 2 Tbsp. sunflower, chia or hemp seeds

Method

1. Place flour(s), dates & salt in food processor.

2. Pulse to combine & chop dates.

3. Add oil processing until a dough begins to form.

4. Add half chocolate chips or nibs procesings until dough is a ball*.

5. Gather dough ball.

6. Divide in half & then into 16 balls & roll (or use a spoon to form balls of desired size).

7. Add remaining chocolate chips / nibs to balls as desired. Enjoy.

*Note: you may need to adjust oil amount by adding 1 tsp. at a time or you may wish instead to add water.