Chocolate Covered Coconut Balls!!

So I needed an idea for a blog post.

And I thought, “what about a treat?”

And then I thought, “what about a healthy treat that Mom and all the other healthy people out there can enjoy?”

So after browsing Pinterest for ten minutes (*gasp* only ten minutes?!) I found a recipe.

Yay!

So here are my Chocolate Covered Coconut Balls.

I’m sorry, coconut-haters, but you are just going to have to sit this one out.

Recipe Credit: Pinch of Yum

What you will need:

(sorry for the blurry pic)

2 cups desiccated coconut

4 tablespoons honey or maple syrup

5 tablespoons coconut oil

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup dark chocolate for melting (i.e. chocolate chips)

Blend the coconut in the food processor until the texture is like thick flour.

Transfer coconut to a bowl and add honey or maple syrup, coconut oil and vanilla. Combine until make a thick-ish batter.

Get out a cookie sheet and some wax paper. Use your hands to make bite-sized balls out of the coconut mixture and set on the wax paper. Set inside the fridge for 30 mins or until hard.

Now get out your chocolate chips and slowly melt them. I used the double-boiler method, where you fill a pot with water and then put your bowl on top (with the chocolate chips inside) and put the whole thing on the stove. Be careful to not get any water in the chocolate chips or it will seize up and harden. It sounds more complicated than it really is.

Once your chocolate chips have melted, get out your balls and dip them in the chocolate. Use forks to roll them around, then set them back on the cookie sheet. Repeat for all the balls.

(obviously my chocolate rolling skills are lacking a little bit of...well, skill)

Now put them in the fridge again and wait for them to harden.

And you are done!

These are really delicious and fun to just snack on whenever you want a little sweetness. :) I hope you give these a try!