Chocolate Mandarin Bliss Balls

  • 1 cup almonds
  • ½ cup cashews
  • ¼ cup dried apricots, chopped
  • 1 cup desiccated coconut
  • ½ tsp cinnamon
  • Zest of one Delite mandarin
  • 2 Tablespoons cocoa powder
  • 2 Tablespoons coconut oil
  • ½  cup freshly mandarin juice
  • 1 Tablespoon honey
  • Extra mandarin zest and desiccated coconut for coating, combined.

Method

  1. Add the almonds and cashews to a food processor and process until fine. Add the apricots, coconut, cinnamon, cocoa powder and mandarin zest and process for another minute.
  2. In a separate bowl mix the coconut oil, juice and honey. Slowly add this liquid to your mixture and process until it comes together (make sure you add enough for the mixture to bind and but not so it becomes too wet).
  3. With wet hands, roll the mix into balls and roll the balls in the combined coconut and mandarin zest
  4. Store  in the fridge .