Date Nut Bon-Bons

Ingredients

Note: Extremely Delicious. “Tastes like an Almond Snicker’s bar.”

• • Base
• 1¼ cups Oat flour
• ½ cup ground raw almonds
• ½ cup raw almonds
  (bake whole raw almonds in 200 F oven for 20 minutes, cool, chop fine or coarse)
  *can substitute peanuts
  • Filling
• 16 oz. Pitted Medjool dates
• ½ cup natural peanut or almond butter
• 1 tsp pure Almond extract
• ¼ tsp Salt
• 1 cup hot coffee to soak dates
  • Chocolate Dip
• 12 oz. dark chocolate chips or baking chunks
  (choose >60% cocoa without cane sugar or corn syrup- with coconut or date sugar)
  See two different examples below:

Instructions

1. Line an 8-inch square baking pan with parchment paper.
2. Place pitted dates in a bowl, cover with hot coffee and soak for 15 minutes or so.
3. Place drained dates in a food processor, Ninja, or blender.
4. Add almond butter, vanilla, and salt.
5. Process until smooth. Put 3/4 of filling in a different bowl.
6. To the remaining 1/4 of the filling in the food processor, add oat flour, and ground almonds.
7. Process until mixed well.
8. Firmly press the base into the prepared pan.
9. Spread the filling over the base and top with chopped almonds.
10. Freeze for at least one hour.
    
    
11. Place the chocolate in microwave safe bowl, heat at 30-second intervals stirring each time until melted.
12. Remove candy from pan in the freezer.
13. Cut into squares.
14. Dip each bar in the melted chocolate and allow to set on parchment paper.
15. (Optional: Sprinkle chopped almonds or raw shredded coconut over wet chocolate)
16. Refrigerate until ready to serve.

“Bon” Appetit!!!