Raw Vegan Lemon-nut Chocolate Truffle (copycat Larabar Variation

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup dried dates
• 3 cups nuts (of your choice)
• 1 lemon (zest and juice)
• 4 tablespoons of organic raw cocoa powder

Recipe

• 1 chop or grind the nuts (i used a mixture of walnut, almond, cashew, hazelnut, and pistachio) either by hand, in a food processor, or in a coffee grinder, depending on the coarseness you prefer. the finer you chop the nuts, the firmer the mixture will stay together.
• 2 chop the dates.
• 3 make zests and juice out of the lemon.
• 4 combine the chopped nuts, chopped dates, lemon zest and lemon juice either by hand, or in the food processor.
• 5 scoop the mixture base on the size of truffles you want to make, make them into little balls, and roll them in the raw cocoa power, set aside.
• 6 the oil of the nuts will seep through the powder, and if you'd like, you can roll them in the raw cocoa powder again.
• 7 set aside, it is pretty much ready to eat immediately. i prefer to store them in room temperature. it seems to allow the oil of the nuts and the cocoa powder to incorporate better as they sit.
• 8 enjoy!