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- Hi, friends, welcome to my channel.
If you're new here, my name is Alyssa.
Today I have got three delicious
vegan energy bites for you,
and I know you guys are
going to love these.
I've shared two similar
videos already on the channel.
They are one of my
favorite things to make,
and you guys also seem
to really love them,
so I'm excited to share
three new flavors with you.
So the three flavors
that we have today are a chocolate orange.
We also have a salted caramel,
as well as a mango coconut.
All three are gluten-free,
vegan, super easy to make.
They just use a food processor,
and they use real whole food ingredients,
and I know you guys are
going to gobble them up.
They make the best meal prep snack.
All of these recipes are
already up on the blog as well,
so if you're interested in making them,
you can just find the links
right down below this video.
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All right, so first up is
the chocolate orange one.
We're gonna start by adding
dates into our food processor.
To that, you're also
gonna add in some walnuts
and some almonds.
Just blend this up until it forms
kind of like a coarse, sandy-like texture.
It should take about 30 seconds or so.
And then you can remove the lid,
and we're gonna add in our cacao powder,
as well as a tablespoon of almond butter.
You could also use cashew
butter, peanut butter,
whatever you wanna use there.
Some maple syrup, some
orange zest and orange juice.
Pop the lid back on, blend that up,
and it should form a kind of,
well, pretty sticky dough.
It's a little bit too sticky to roll,
so you're gonna add in some coconut flour,
and that's gonna help hold
all of the liquid together
and help make them kind of cakey almost.
These are more of a
truffle type consistency.
So pop the lid back on
and then blend it up again
until you have that sticky dough
that you can more easily
roll between your hands.
So you just take a tablespoon
or so of that dough
and form it into a little ball.
And like I said, these
are kind of a truffle,
but they're also the same
kind of base ingredients
as energy bites, so I'm
calling them the same. (laughs)
But just know that they are
a little bit more sticky
and gooey like a truffle.
As soon as you've had
them rolled into balls,
I recommend rolling these
in some cacao powder.
It makes them taste so good
as a little bit of extra decadence.
So I basically just put
cacao powder in a little bowl
and just roll the truffle
inside, or the ball inside.
And that's pretty much it.
That is our chocolate
orange energy bite/truffle.
The next one is our salted caramel,
and we again are going to
start with dates as the base.
Dates are the base of all of these.
They are the best because
they're so sticky.
And then we're gonna add in some cashews.
Again, pop the lid on just like last time.
Blend it up until you get
that sandy-like consistency.
Remove the lid, and we'll
add in some coconut,
as well as some maple syrup
and some cashew butter.
I like cashew butter here
'cause it has the most mild
taste or the mildest taste,
and it works really well with these.
And then I also like
to add in some hemp seeds or chia seeds.
Just adds a little boost of protein
and tastes good, I guess.
And some sea salt, as
well as some cinnamon.
Both of these add such a nice flavor,
and they taste delicious.
So pop the lid back on once
you have those in there,
and we are gonna blend
it up once last time
to form our dough.
And this is gonna be a little
bit thicker than last time,
but, again, it should be sticky enough
that it holds together
when you pinch it between your fingers,
and you should be able to
roll it easily into balls.
So that's what we're gonna
do here is just scoop,
again, about a tablespoon
out of the food processor
and just squeeze it tightly
so that it all sticks together
and then roll it between your hands
until you have your energy bites.
And you can just repeat
with the rest of the dough
and keep these in the fridge or freezer.
You also could roll these in coconut
if you wanted, I didn't.
I didn't think they needed it.
But if you wanna make them
a little extra special,
you could do that as well.
So the third and final is our
mango coconut energy balls.
We're gonna add some Medjool dates again
into our food processor.
And this time we're also
gonna add in some dried mango.
So this is gonna be the mango
part, but it's sticky enough
that it is also gonna help
hold everything together.
Nuts, you can use any
blend of nuts for this one.
I did a blend of walnuts and cashews
'cause that's what I had on hand.
I personally like cashews the best,
but I didn't have enough.
And then I'm also gonna
add in some coconut,
and I'm gonna pop the lid on
here and just blend this up
until it forms, again,
that kind of sandy texture.
This takes longer to blend
because the mango tends to
be drier than the dates,
so just blend for a good
minute or so, if not longer,
to get that sandy consistency,
and eventually it will get down
to that consistency
that you're looking for.
And then we're gonna just
add in our final ingredients,
which are turmeric powder, as
well as a scoop of nut butter.
I did cashew butter 'cause,
again, it has a very mild taste,
but you could do anything that you want.
You could also do maple
syrup, or you could try water.
Pop the lid on one last
time and blend it up
until it forms, again, a sticky
dough just like last time.
And, again, to test,
you just want to pinch
it between your fingers
to make sure that it holds together.
These ones are a tiny bit drier,
so if you want them stickier,
you could add another scoop
of cashew butter or almond butter,
and that will help stick
them together even more.
But I liked them this consistency,
so I kind of squeezed it
really tightly between my hands
so that the dough held together,
and then I just rolled
them into little balls.
And to finish these ones off,
I decided to roll them in coconut
because they're mango coconut after all,
so why not make them look
like they're covered in delicious coconut?
So, again, you just add
some coconut onto a plate
and roll the balls in the coconut.
And these ones I recommend
storing in the fridge.
And you can keep them for at
least two weeks in the fridge,
three to six months in the freezer,
just like any other energy ball recipe.
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And there you have it, my friends.
I hope you enjoyed today's
vegan energy bites.
I can't wait to see
which one you try first.
If you're interested in
trying any of these recipes
and making them for yourself,
the full recipes are on the blog,
so you can find those down
in the description box.
I'll also link my other videos
that share energy ball/bite recipes
because I know you guys
(laughs) really enjoy
these types of recipe videos.
So those are also really popular,
and they also each have
three different flavors,
so there's a lot to choose from.
What I personally love about energy bites,
aside from the fact that they're made
with whole food ingredients,
they are the perfect
little on-the-go snack.
You can take them with you.
They're great for pre-workout.
They're great for post-workout.
They're great to just
nibble on in between meals.
And they are fairly balanced
nutritionally speaking.
So we've got healthy
fats, we've got protein,
we've got carbohydrates,
so they're a really
great nutritious snack.
I hope you guys enjoyed it.
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