Baking & desserts
Chocolate, date & oat bliss balls
Fudgy no-bake bliss balls of dates, oats, peanut butter and cocoa rolled in coconut — a quick, naturally sweet snack that keeps in the fridge all week.
- 40 min · 20 min hands-on
- Serves 20
- Food processor, small bowl, airtight container
- Contains peanut
- Vegan
- Snack
One serve gives you
Daily needs: Female 31–50- Protein 2 g · 11%
- Carbs 10 g · 46%
- Fat 4 g · 43%
- Fibre 3 g
Highest in this recipe
Black shows one serve; the rest of each bar is left for the day. * Partial ingredient data.
Ingredients
Weights for 20 servings. Per-serve nutrition stays the same.
- 200 g
- 100 g
- 80 g
- 25 g
- 15 g
- 5 g
- 40 g
Check product labels and cross-contact. Ingredient notes are not an allergy-safety guarantee.
Method
5 steps · about 40 min- Put the dates in a bowl, cover with boiling water and soak for 10 minutes to soften. Drain well, discarding the soaking water.
- Blitz the rolled oats in a food processor until coarsely ground. Add the drained dates, peanut butter, cocoa powder, chia seeds, vanilla and 20 g of the coconut and process until the mixture clumps together into a sticky dough; add a teaspoon of water only if it stays crumbly.
- With damp hands, roll level tablespoons of the mixture into 20 balls.
- Roll the balls in the remaining 20 g coconut to coat.
- Refrigerate for at least 20 minutes to firm up. One ball is a serve; keep them in an airtight container in the fridge for up to a week.
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One serve gives you
Daily needs: Female 31–50- Protein 2 g · 11%
- Carbs 10 g · 46%
- Fat 4 g · 43%
- Fibre 3 g
Highest in this recipe
Black shows one serve; the rest of each bar is left for the day. * Partial ingredient data.
Calculation limitations
- Further heating in this recipe is not covered by the food record or a reviewed cooking factor. Reported contributions remain estimates.
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Editorially reviewed for ingredient-method agreement, flavour structure, moisture control, practical timings and food-safety cues. Compound products and cross-contact remain label-dependent.
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Calculation assumptions & recipe adaptations
Estimated from weighed edible ingredients using existing source-backed food records. Cooking changes without a supported model remain unadjusted; unknown nutrient values remain unknown.
- Pitted dried dates: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Rolled oats: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Peanut butter, no added salt or sugar: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Cocoa powder: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Chia seeds: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Vanilla extract: Whole-recipe edible weight.
- Desiccated coconut, divided: Whole-recipe edible weight.
AFCD attribution, data & methods
Food matches used for nutrition
- Pitted dried dates: Date, dried
- Rolled oats: Oats, rolled, uncooked
- Peanut butter, no added salt or sugar: Peanut butter, smooth & crunchy, no added sugar or salt
- Cocoa powder: Cocoa powder
- Chia seeds: Seed, chia, dried
- Vanilla extract: Vanilla bean extract
- Desiccated coconut, divided: Coconut, grated & desiccated