Nuts About Coffee Bliss Balls

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Written By Leanne de Groot

Coffee Bliss Balls

These balls will give you a gentle coffee kick or sub in decaf if caffeine isn’t for you.

Healthy fats and naturally sweetened - a few of these could stand in for your regular cuppa?

Ingredients:

  • 2 TBSP finely ground organic coffee

  • 3/4 cup of activated cashews

  • 1/2 cup activated walnuts

  • 40g of cashew butter (or 1/2 cup activated cashews) or nut butter to your liking

  • 40ml organic maple syrup

  • 1 tsp organic vanilla

  • 5 medjool dates (pitted) or dried fruit of your choice

  • 1/3 cup of organic flaxseed (*freshly ground)

  • 1.5 TBSP organic cacao powder, + extra for rolling

instructions:

Grind up your flaxseeds then place all ingredients in your food processor or blender and pulse until the mixture come together to form a ball. Take approx 1 TBSP and roll into 2.5cm balls. Dust each ball in cacao powder and pop in the fridge to set for 15 minutes. These will keep in the fridge for up to 2 weeks and in your freezer for a couple of months - if you can resist ☕️

Options:

🍃 Sub in carob for the cacao and

🍃 Add essential oils to your taste

🍃 Add spices that your drawn to … cardamon is my favourite with coffee

🍃 Roll in scrumptious coconut and enjoy.

*Don’t make the shortcut mistake I did in skipping the grounding of the flaxseed, as left whole the flaxseeds make the balls crumbly and hard to fully chew. Grind them up fresh as the first step in your recipe Ꙛ

Leanne de Groot

My contribution is a union of nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork & movement intertwined with behaviour change and how it impacts a life worth living.

As a health and fitness professional, I want to shift the paradigm toward one of self-love and self-care instead of an aesthetic insecurity-based industry. Let’s move away from the trail of being overweight, body shape dissatisfaction, the daily dose of pharmaceutical and social drugs, persistent envy, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, and a life full of pressure to keep up, skip steps, and rush.

Living without awareness and intention creates pressures that we are not doing, we are not moving fast enough, as bosses, workers, weekend warriors, friends, lovers, parents, siblings, or grandparents. We have to be able and willing to step outside the pull of unhealthy and unhealthful cultural norms and make the critical space to do our meaningful thinking.

The first thing I need people to take in is if they are going to work with me or read my work because for me this re-frames the core of moving through all obstacles we have around stress, rush, health, weight, etc … The very blantant truth is that living under the guise of society’s expectations - is not living.

We have been fed a narrative that stepping outside or away from norms is the wrong way to exist and this narrative furthers unhappiness, unhealthiness, pressure, and a life that is too fast to enjoy.

Wherever we are, this is life—it’s happening right now, and I’ve decided that I am not going to rush through it and I invite you to join me today …

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