No-Bake Cacao Cookies
Recipe: #31251
January 10, 2019
Categories: Desserts, Cookies, Dropped, Almond, Dates, Baby Shower, Birthday, Game/Sports Day, Picnic, Potluck Gluten-Free, Low Cholesterol, Low Fat, No Eggs, Non-Dairy, Vegan, Vegetarian, more
"From our weekday newspaper The West Australian. Times are estimated."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (56.4 g)
- Calories 203.7
- Total Fat - 5.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 0.6 g
- Cholesterol - 0 mg
- Sodium - 36.8 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 37.8 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.6 g
- Sugars - 29.3 g
- Protein - 2.7 g
- Calcium - 49.6 mg
- Iron - 2 mg
- Vitamin C - 5 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Place dates, almond meal and cacao in a food processor and process until dates are finely chopped ad then add Rice Bubbles, syrup and vanilla and process until mixture forms a thick paste.
Step 2
Using clean hands, roll heaped tablespoons of the mixture into balls and then flatten slightly to form a 5cm rounds and then press an almond in the centre of each one and place them on a tray lined with baking paper and refrigerate the cookies for about 2 hours or until firm.
Step 3
TIP - studies have found that cacao can help regulate blood pressure and boost the immune system, and is also associated with healthy liver function.
Tips
No special items needed.