Chocolate Walnut Date Balls: Healthy AND Yummy + Only 5 Ingredients

These chocolate walnut date balls are sweet enough and chocolatey enough to wow your taste buds and healthful enough to enjoy more than one.

Chocolate! I MUST have chocolate.

Can you relate?

Fortunately, I no longer berate myself over my love of chocolate. I fully embrace it. Good chocolate is so delicious, it brings me such joy.

And we all need more joy in life.

Since giving myself permission to love the heck out of chocolate, I rarely overeat it, and it always makes me smile. I hope you can relate to that too.

Wait till you taste these healthy chocolate walnut date balls! They combine the deliciousness of walnuts and chocolate with the sweetness of dates in a healthy and quick-to-make treat for snack or dessert. Kids love the chewy chocolatey taste. And grownups like the bite-sized portions. Throw two into a lunch box and I’m smiling!

Why these chocolatey gems earn “dessert with benefits” status

I love delicious desserts with benefits!

Walnuts are good for the brain, the heart and the gut. Dates are a delicious part of a Mediterranean diet and loaded with health-boosting phytonutrients. And chocolate is chocolate – 1 of my 3 favorite foods (along with peanut butter and strong black coffee). Here’s how to keep chocolate in your healthy diet. Barely a day goes by that I don’t have a tiny bit of my favorite food.

If you’re a chocolate and peanut butter fan, try these Chocolate Peanut Butter Oat Balls.

Pro tip: Use cocoa powder that has not been Dutched or processed with alkali. This type of processing destroys some of cocoa’s health-shielding properties.

These chocolate walnut date balls are just the right amount of chewy, chocolatey goodness.

Super-fast, super-easy chocolate walnut date balls!

Healthy Chocolate Walnut Date Balls

This tiny dessert with benefits is filled with health-shielding nutrients and phytonutrients along with a delicious chocolate taste.

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Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 0 minutes minutes

Servings: 18 balls

Calories: 73kcal

Equipment

• food processor

Ingredients

• 1 cup pitted sticky dates such as Medjool or Deglet Noor (4.5 ounces)
• ½ cup raisins (2.3 ounces)
• ½ cup walnuts (2 ounces)
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
• ¼ cup chocolate chips (1.5 ounces)
• 1 tablespoon water

Instructions

• Using a food processor, process everything except the water until finely chopped.
• Add the water and process again for several seconds until you have a sticky mass.
• Using damp hands, form 18 (1-inch) balls, each weighing about 18 grams.
• Place the balls in a container with a lid. Separate the layers with wax paper. Store at room temperature or in the refrigerator.

Nutrition

Serving: 1ball | Calories: 73kcal | Carbohydrates: 12g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 0g | Trans Fat: 0g | Cholesterol: 0mg | Sodium: 1mg | Fiber: 1.5g

Healthy date balls? Or something else?

I usually call concoctions like these date balls. Other people call them bliss balls or energy balls. Healthy bliss balls works for me because they are blissfully delicious and mighty nutritious. Energy balls never sounded right because to most people, energy deals with having pep in your step. And these healthy date balls are no more or less likely to energize you than are other wholesome treats. And to dietitians, the word energy is synonymous to calories. And that totally feels wrong. Healthy calorie balls? No. I’ll stick with healthy date balls or bliss balls.

Regardless of what you call them, these chocolate walnut date balls are a winner. They have it all: taste, nutrition, and they’re simple to make.

Cheers to desserts with benefits!