Healthy Halloween Treats: Pumpkin Bread, Raw Coconut Macaroons, Carob Balls, & More

Date/Almond Carob Balls


Ingredients:

  • 1 teaspoon of vanilla (or orange) flavoring
  • Pinch of cinnamon
  • Frontier herbs
  • 1 Cup of mashed Medjool dates or date paste
  • 1 Cup of carob powder or cacao powder
  • 1 Cup of almond butter (or cashew butter)
  • Pinch of lecithin

Directions:

Mix in food processor or blender or mashed by hand and form into balls or rolls.

Variation: roll the balls in shredded coconut (my preference).

Check out a Coconut Macaroons recipe on Page 3 —->

Photo Credit: On Bradstreet via flickr under a CC license

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By Zach | October 22, 2010 | Recipes | 7 Comments |
  • http://glueandglitter.com Becky Striepe

    These all sound amazing! What are Frontier Spices?

    • http://www.zacharyshahan.com Zachary Shahan

      Frontier Herb Spices is just one of the very good organic, non irradiated sources for good herbs that has been around a while — there are other ones now as well

      • http://glueandglitter.com Becky Striepe

        Oh, cool!

  • http://www.whistler-outdoors.com/ Joe

    Wow this recipe not only sounds amazing but looks fantastic also. The 2 1/2 cups of brown sugar sounds like a zillion calories so I wonder what I could replace it with?

  • http://www.naturallyfreshdeodorantcrystal.com/ Laura

    Wow, this looks great! Thanks for sharing the recipe!

  • http://www.tergum.co.il/ Danny

    I just love pumpkin bread! I printed the recipe and no power in the universe will prevent me from baking this bread come Saturday :)

  • http://www.nosejob.co.il/ David

    Stunning picture! Never really thought of trying pumpkin bread until now. Now I feel that I must try some…