Cacao & Date Truffles

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup (72 g) almonds
• 4 Medjool dates (60 g)
• 1/3 cup (75 g) low-sodium cottage cheese (or low-fat cottage cheese)
• 3 tbsp (15 g) unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp (1 g) ground cinnamon

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Method

1. Blitz the almonds in a food processor to a coarse meal.
2. Add the pitted dates, the cottage cheese, two thirds of the cocoa, the vanilla and cinnamon and work to a stiff paste.
3. Chill 20 minutes, roll into twelve balls and turn them in the remaining cocoa.