Snickers Bites
They taste just like a Snickers bar, but with whole food, plant-based goodness and fiber! They're great to have hidden in the freezer for when you need a last-minute treat to take to an event or when company pops by. Enjoy!
Ingredients
- Whole Dates
- Nut or seed butter of choice many people with tree nut allergies can tolerate sunflower seed butter
- Dark chocolate dairy-free. Can be chips or broken up bars, your choice.
- Sea Salt if desired
Instructions
- If your dates are not pitted, slice the date lengthwise to expose and remove the pit without cutting all the way through the date. Pipe nut or seed butter into the cavity of the date where the pit was—I find it's easiest to do this with a piping bag with a fairly large opening. Squeeze the date closed (it's ok if there's some nut or seed butter oozing out, it all gets covered with chocolate!). Place the filled dates on a cookie sheet covered with a silicone baking mat or wax paper and then place in the freezer to firm up.
- Put chocolate into the top of a double-boiler and place atop bottom part with simmering water (you can use a metal bowl set on top of a pot of simmering water if you don't have a double boiler. Stir the chocolate until it melts completely.
- Remove the sheets of prepared dates from the freezer. Drop a date into the melted chocolate, turn it with two forks so it gets completely covered and pull out of the chocolate, letting excess drip off. Place on a cookie sheet covered with a silicone baking mat or wax paper. Sprinkle with sea salt, as desired before the chocolate hardens. Repeat with remaining prepared dates. If your chocolate gets too thick, simply heat again over boiling water to thin out. Pop back into the freezer until firmed up, about an hour.
- Pull the Snickers Bites off the mat or waxed paper and store in a covered container in the freezer or refrigerator between layers of wax paper (wax paper is compostable, BTW). Set out on a plate or tray at room temperature at least 30 minutes before serving.