Easy No Bake Coconut Date Balls (Paleo, Vegan & AIP)

These coconut day balls are a people saccharine paleo and vegan dainty aliases snack pinch only 3 elemental ingredients. The extracurricular has a textured coconut consciousness pinch a soft and almost creamy inside.

Have you ever seen aliases bought these coconut day balls astatine nan market store? I’ve bought them a fewer times because I emotion that they only person 3 ingredients, but they are truthful expensive! They’re a bully patient saccharine dainty to person astir nan house, which is why I decided to make my own. They are truthful easy to make and tin past a while successful nan fridge.

Why I emotion this recipe:

• These sensation delicious but only person patient earthy ingredients successful them. These make a awesome dainty if you are connected nan autoimmune paleo protocol! They are besides paleo and vegan pinch nary added sugar.
• These coconut day balls are a elemental dainty that only require 3 easy ingredients!
• No baking, heating aliases oven required!
• These small treats shop good successful nan refrigerator and tin past rather a while.
• You tin springiness these distant arsenic gifts. Stick them successful a jar and necktie a front astir it for a beautiful patient present!

Coconut Date Balls Recipe Tips:

• You will request a nutrient processor for this recipe to successfully purify nan dates. A regular blender will not work. In immoderate cases a vitamix whitethorn work, but I’ve had nan astir occurrence pinch a nutrient processor for illustration this one.
• There are a fewer different types of dates for illustration deglet noor aliases medjool. Any type of day will work, but they must beryllium dried dates which are mostly nan only type disposable successful shop anyway. But if you get caller dates disconnected nan tree, it won’t activity for this recipe.
• Make judge that you do not put successful excessively overmuch h2o to soak nan dates. I specify 3 tbsp of h2o because if you put excessively overmuch h2o nan paste will beryllium excessively bedewed and you wont beryllium capable to shape it into balls. You conscionable request hardly capable h2o to soften nan dates to make them sticky and capable to beryllium processed into a paste.
• The magnitude of shredded coconut that you will request whitethorn alteration depending connected really mini aliases ample you make nan balls.
• It’s champion to shop these coconut day balls successful nan refrigerator. They don’t usually instrumentality astir for agelong successful my location without getting eaten up, but I would ideate they will past astatine slightest a week aliases 2 if not much successful nan refrigerator. I’m judge they would frost good excessively successful an airtight bag.

How to make these Coconut Date Balls:

Boil h2o and adhd 3 tablespoons to a shallow vessel pinch nan pitted dates inside. Let nan dates soak for astir 10 minutes.

Pour nan dates on pinch nan h2o into a nutrient processor.

Run nan nutrient processor until nan dates are finely chopped and almost lucifer a paste.

For nan day paste into mini balls and rotation them connected a sheet of shredded coconut until it’s coated. Repeat until each of nan day substance is gone.

Place each nan the coconut day rolls successful nan refrigerator for astir an hr aliases until they person hardened.

If you liked these coconut day balls, you whitethorn bask these different no sweetener added recipes!…

• No Bake Fruit Tart
• Easy Keto Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Healthy Banana Pumpkin Cookies

This look was primitively posted successful March of 2013 but has been republished successful December of 2018 to see caller and improved look tips, photos and a video.

Hannah Healy

Hannah Healy is nan laminitis of Healy Eats Real, a wellness and wellness website that provides patient recipes and adjuvant accusation connected wellness. Hannah is nan published writer of The Ultimate Paleo Cookbook. Her activity has been featured connected Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Redbook, fittingness and MSN.