Candies – Healthy Choices by Sabine: Sugar-free and Healthy Dessert Recipes

Chocolate-Covered Hazelnut Dates

Chocolate Covered Dates are a healthy alternative to regular sweets. These homemade healthy candies are vegan, gluten-free and refined sugar-free. It’s a simple recipe with only 4 ingredients, and very easy-to-make. Juicy and sweet from the inside, chocolatey and crispy from the outside.

Dates are well-known sugar replacements and have many nutritional benefits. This could be the perfect sweet treat that you are craving – healthy and so easy to make.

These homemade healthy date candies could be a beautiful and delicious gift for friends and family.

Chocolate-Covered Hazelnut Dates are:

White refined sugar-free
Perfect as gift for a special occasion
Vegan
Healthy
Easy to make
Sweet and chocolatey

TIME: 10 min preparation, 30 minutes to set in the fridge | SERVINGS: 20

Ingredients:

20 juicy pitted dates
50g dark sugar-free & vegan chocolate
1 handful of toasted chopped hazelnuts
2 tbsp coconut oil

Instructions:

Melt the chocolate with coconut oil at a very low temperature.
Dip the dates into the chocolate and cover them fully.
Sprinkle each date with chopped roasted hazelnuts.
Put it in the fridge to set for 30 minutes or more. Store in the fridge.

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Easy No Bake Energy Balls

4 ingredients and a blender or food processor that is all you need to make these healthy Energy Balls. Quick Energy Balls are the perfect grab-and-go snack whenever you want something sweet. These Energy Balls are full of juicy dates and crunchy nuts, that gives a sweet and crispy taste. This is a guilt-free sweet snack, it’s refined sugar-free, vegan, and lactose-free, you have to try this.

A few tips:

If the dates are hard, soak them in a hot water for at least 15-30 minutes,
You can use any other nuts instead of cashews.
You can be creative with decoration – you can roll balls into shredded coconut, seeds, cornflakes, cocoa, chopped nuts, chopped chocolate pieces, almond flakes, etc.

Energy balls are:

No-bake
Vegan
Lactose-free
Banana-free
Easy & quick to make
Refined sugar-free
Healthy snack
Naturally sweetened

How to store Energy Balls?

Store in the fridge up to 5 days.

Check out these other energy ball recipes:

TIME: 10 minutes preparation | SERVINGS: 7 balls

Ingredients:

2 tbsp plant-based milk
60g cashews
3 tbsp cocoa
100g dates (~13 average dates)
Chopped nuts, shredded coconut, or more cocoa for decoration

Instructions:

Blend all ingredients until you get a sticky mixture.
Make a ball with your palms.
Roll into chopped nuts, cocoa, or shredded coconut.

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Chocolate Hazelnut Energy Balls

These healthy, vegan and sweet Chocolate Hazelnut Energy Balls are full of crispy hazelnuts and sweet dates. This could be your quick everyday snack with the afternoon tea or whenever you want something sweet.

Easy and quick – Chocolate Hazelnut Energy Balls with 4 main ingredients.

These Chocolate Hazelnut Energy Balls are:

Vegan
Refined sugar-free
Easy and quick snack
Healthy ingredients
Soft and chewy
Nutty, but sweet

What are the key ingredients?

Dates – Try to choose the softest and juiciest dates that you can find, then they will be easier to blend or soak the dates in a hot water for 10 to 30 minutes. This is my favorite and fastest way to soften dates.
Hazelnuts – Choose the best quality hazelnuts. You can replace them with any other your favorite nuts. If you don’t like the nut pieces in the balls, you can blend separately the halzelnuts until you get the consistency of the flour and add to the blended dates mixture.
Peanut butter – Choose a good quality peanut or other nut butter, which is sugar-free and natural.
Cocoa Powder – This makes the taste of chocolate. You can adjust the cocoa to taste that you like the best, but don’t overdo it, because it could make the balls dry and super chewy.

Are chocolate energy balls a healthy dessert?

Chocolate Energy Ballss are refined sugar-free which isn’t good for health, and only sweetened with dates (natural sweetener). Hazelnuts and peanut putter are healthy and rich in nutrition and good for your body and health. Both contain protein and other useful benefits.

How to store Energy Balls?

Store in the fridge up to 5 days.

TIME: 10 minutes preparation | SERVINGS: 7 balls

Ingredients:

85g soft and juicy dates
30g hazelnuts
1 tbsp peanut butter
2 tbsp cocoa powder
2 tbsp shredded coconut and/or chopped hazelnuts for decoration

Instructions:

Blend all ingredients until you get a sticky mixture.
Make a ball with your palms and set it aside until all mixture is out.
Roll into the balls in shredded coconut or chopped hazelnuts.
Place in the fridge to get firm. Enjoy. 🙂

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Choose healthy! 🙏

Easy Raffaello Coconut Balls

What can be better than homemade and much healthier Raffaello with only good ingredients? This recipe is for real coconut lovers. Easy Raffaello Balls is super quick to make, sugar-free, vegan, and very delicate dessert.

Healthy Rafaello Balls are:

vegan
sugar-free
dairy-free
lactose-free
no-bake
3 main ingredients
quick and easy to make

What are the key ingredients?

Shredded coconut – This is the main ingredient. Use your favorite shredded or desiccated coconut.
Greek or plain yogurt – You can use any other yogurt, also plant-based – almond or coconut.
Agave syrup – You can use any other natural and helathy liquid sweetener such as honey or maple syrup.

Check out my other recipes with coconut:

Ingredients:

TIME: 10 min | SERVINGS: 10

150g shredded coconut
75ml greek/plain lactose-free yogurt
4 tbsp agave syrup or honey
10 almonds

Instructions:

Take a bowl and slowly mix all ingredients together until you get a sticky mixture.
Make a ball with your palms, press in an almond in the middle and set it aside until all mixture is out.
Roll into the balls in more shredded coconut.
Place in the fridge to get firm. Enjoy. 🙂

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CHOCOLATE TRUFFLES (VEGAN AND SUGAR-FREE)

These delicious Chocolate Truffles are a healthier version of the classic truffles. If you are a chocolate lover and you like delicate desserts, then this recipe will be for you. Chocolate truffles are a healthy dessert or snack because there is no added white refined sugar and white wheat flour, they are lactose-free and vegan and also consist of only 5 ingredients. Healthy Chocolate Truffles also can be a great gift for someone.

Healthy Chocolate Truffles Vegan and Sugarfree

Chocolate Truffles – Vegan, Sugar-free, Lactose-free – Healthy Dessert

TIME: 20 min preparation | 2 hours to cool | SERVINGS: 22

Ingredients:

100g coconut cream – only the thick part from can
180g sugar-free dark chocolate (120g for candies, 60g for decorating)
90g any kind of nut butter. I used hazelnut nut butter with chocolate.
50g coconut flour
1 tsp coconut oil

For decoration: chopped nuts, seeds, shredded coconut, cocoa, but you can do it without decoration as well.

Instructions:

Take a pan. Melt the chocolate at a very low temperature.
When the chocolate is almost melted, add the coconut cream and nut butter. Mix everything until it’s well combined.
Remove from the heat and add coconut flour, mix all well.
Put the mixture in the fridge to cool for one hour.
Form balls (truffles) by hands.
Melt the remaining chocolate with coconut oil.
Put the truffle on a teaspoon, but hold it over the bowl or pan with the melted chocolate, then with another teaspoon spread over the chocolate. If you want to decorate the truffles, you will need to do it right away, because the chocolate will harden.
Put the truffles in the fridge for 1 hour.

BLUEBERRY COCONUT BALLS

These super delicious and colorful Blueberry Coconut Balls are perfect healthy dessert. Blueberries give them bright blue-purple color, this definitely is a very beautful healthy dessert. These blueberry coconut balls consist of only 4 ingredients, are very quick and easy to cook. These balls are healthy because they are refined sugar-free.

Beautiful Healthy Dessert or Snack – Blueberry Coconut Balls (sugar-free and quick to make)

You May Also Want To Try These: Strawberry Energy Balls or Healthy Rafaello Balls

TIME: 15 min | Servings: 15

Ingredients:

Base:

80g blueberries – small ones. (fresh or frozen, cooled before)
130g coconut flour
11 tbsp greek yogurt (sugar-free and lactose-free – optional)
5-6 tbsp honey or other sweetener

For decoration:

50g shredded coconut

Instructions:

Blend blueberries with greek yogurt and honey.
Take a bowl, add coconut flour and blueberry mixture, mix all well. Mixture need to be smooth, if not, add more yogurt.
Make with your hands a round ball.
Roll into shredded coconut.
Place the balls in the fridge for 1 hour or enjoy it right away. Store in the fridge.