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Nutella Bites

Bring home the taste of Nutella in this Cookie Dough Balls Recipe, bursting of rich chocolate and hazelnut flavors!
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course Snack
Cuisine American
Servings 9 balls
Calories 105 kcal

Equipment

  • Stovetop Pan
  • Blender

Ingredients
  

  • ½ cup soft Medjool dates pitted
  • 3 tbsp cacao powder
  • ¼ tsp vanilla extract
  • ⅛ tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp pure maple syrup
  • 2 tbsp vegan dark chocolate chips melted
  • ⅔ cup toasted hazelnuts

Instructions
 

  • To toast the hazelnuts, turn the stove to medium-high and add them in.
  • Continuously stir them around for just a couple minutes, until they are starting to brown. When you bite one, the flavor should taste toasted, very different from just a raw hazelnut. They toast fast so be careful.
  • Once they are toasted, turn off the stove. Dump the hazelnuts into a towel and rub them together until the skins come off. This should just take a minute. Then take out the toasted hazelnuts and throw away the skins.
  • Blend these hazelnuts together with the rest of the ingredients, but reserve 9 of them for later use.
  • Once a dough forms in the blender (it should be sticking together very easily), turn off the blender and shape the dough into 9 balls, adding a hazelnut inside each before rolling it up (you can see the pictures above and how there is a hazelnut in the center).
  • Enjoy!

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