No bake Christmas Sweets

Hello everyone,

I hope you all had a fantastic weekend. I had a lovely one! I visited one of the Christmas fairs I wanted to go to (post to come this Friday) and on Sunday I was cleaning, baking, running and watching TV. I am all into Christmas now ans I love it! Today we’re going leave the office around 4.30pm and go to the mall for gift shopping. We had to start working by 7am this morning so I am not absolutely awake by now. But to be on the safe side I am better not doing something finance related today 😉

But for now I talked enough about non-food topics as we’re all here for a yummy new recipe!!!

As I found no time to post this lovely recipe yesterday to join into Ksenija’s Advent link-up I decided to make a combined Munch my Monday, Show me your Cookies post and link up today. A little bit unfortunate (or lucky) as Ksenija and I decided to do something similar. No bake balls. Luckily we both interpreted the topic quite differently.

No bake Christmas Sweets

This recipe is very very easy. The simple thing is, it’s all about texture. You can adapt anything according to your liking. Like it chunky just don’t overdo it with thew nut chopping. Like it smooth ground the ingredients a little longer. If you like it dryer just add more nuts, if you like it more chewy add more dates. Piece of cake 😉

For this recipe you’ll have to prepare a base and then add the flavours of your liking. I will start with my favorite dates nuts relation with the dough. I will show you how to do the balls and then give you the list of ingredients of my favorite sweets recipes:

Ingredients for the dough:

• 1/2 cup soft pitted dates
• 1 cup nuts
• additional seasoning

Directions:

1. Put the dates into your food processor and mix on a high intensity until smooth. They should come out as a chewy thick paste.
2. Now add your nuts and mix again until you’ve reached your prefered nut consistency
3. Add nuts or dates to change consistency if you like
4. Add your additional ingredients and mix slowly until all the ingredients are well combined
5. Now pour the dough into a large bowl and knead with your hands until a big ball forms
6. Take small portions out of the big ball and form little ones
7. Done 🙂

List of ingredients:

Coconut Almond Snowballs

• 1/2 cup soft pitted dates
• 1 cup almonds
• 1 tbsp cocoa powder
• 2 tbsp shredded coconut for the dough
• additional shredded coconut for covering

 

 

Gingerbread Craze

• 1/2 cup soft pitted dates
• 1 mixed nuts (almond, walnut, hazelnut)
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 2 tbsp gingerbread spice
• a pinch of salt

 

 

Chocolate Cashew Delight

• 1/2 cup soft pitted dates
• 1/4  cup almonds
• 3/4 cup cashews
• 3 tbsp cocoa powder
• a pinch of salt

 

 

I’ve put them separately into little cello bags and stocked my hubby’s Advent calendar with them. He was really surprised and happy as he likes them a lot. Our favorites are the Chocolate Cashew Delights but I have to say that the Gingerbread Craze is closer to any gingerbread substitute I’ve ever made. Yum Yum 😀

I love this recipe as it is vegan, wheat and dairy free and you don’t have to bake it. It took me about one hour to make three different flavours. A quick and lovely host gift for Christmas time too!

So I have to jump into my week. Three workshops are lined up but I am just hosting them not holding them myself. This time I only have to make sure everything runs smooth. Happy for that! I am so looking forward to Christmas. Monday before Christmas will be my home office day so I don’t have to go to the office for 6 days! Yay! I will definitely have to catch up on some sleep.

So for now don’t forget to head over to Ksenija and check out her No bake Persimmon Snowballs

I hope you will have a fantastic week! Only 15 days to go 🙂