Easy, Healthy Chocolate Balls – 3-Ingredients Perfect Snack And Dessert Recipe!

These soft, delectable, naturally sweetened Chocolate Balls are the perfect quick, easy snack or dessert, that you won’t believe they’re made with only 3 simple ingredients! These handmade, no-bake, delectable, healthy Chocolate Balls are the perfect sweet, healthy, and chocolatey Christmas, guilt-free indulgence you can easily make in less than 30 minutes for high-vibe and energy fuel after an exhausting day!

If you have always thought that a mouth-watering, luscious, and healthy sweetened dessert only could be made with 10+ special ingredients, plus requiring a demanding making process – I have good news for you! These chocolate Balls are, believe it or not, made with only 3 ingredients – no eggs, no flour, and likely no refined sugar! You won’t believe it until you try!

In case you’re trying to reduce your intake of sugar and highly processed foods but still want to indulge in sweets, these incredibly nutritious Chocolate Balls are the ideal option! Since I’m obsessed with experimenting with various healthy sweets – these Chocolate Balls definitely reserved their place on my favorite quick snacks – and even found their place on top of the holiday menu!

Ingredients You Need

Wait, now, for real – no eggs, no flour, no bake, plus, at top of all that, they’re unreal-soft, chewy, perfect texture? Say less, yeeesss! To make these Chocolate Balls you will only need 3 simple main ingredients you probably already have in your pantry, so one more lucky thing – there will probably be no need to go ingredients shopping!

Main ingredients

• Basic plain cookies (or similar ones like digestive biscuits, Marie biscuits, or rich tea biscuits) – The cookies (biscuits) need to be classic, basic, and plain ones. Depending on where you live those cookies have different names. Just remember that the tastes of these cookies and biscuits vary, which will impact the biscuit cake! Therefore, you might need to use fewer of them to prevent the biscuit from becoming dry and crumbly.

• Walnuts (or other nuts of choice – almonds, hazelnuts…). I personally haven’t tried with other nuts except walnuts, but I guess they’ll also work pretty well! Hazelnuts and almonds are the hard type of nuts and may be harder to blend and chew, while walnuts are the softer type, and blend much quicker and easier.

• Dark chocolate – Using organic dark chocolate instead of the milk one is a much healthier option, even though regular milk chocolate will also work if you want the sweeter version. The majority of dark chocolate contains flavanols, which are plant compounds. Antioxidants called flavanols have been connected to a decreased risk of heart disease. Theoretically, dark chocolate has more flavanol, which has more health benefits. (1)

Extra sweeteners and flavor balancers

How much additional sweeteners you will use depends on the dark chocolate and cocoa powder sugar percentage and cookie level of sweetness as well. These differ from brand to brand, but check them at the nutrition table at the back of the product so you can adjust sweetness to your taste and know how many other sweeteners such as honey or date you should add!

• Honey – Using honey is not necessary, I personally didn’t use it, but it may be useful for adding extra sweetness if your cookies, chocolate, and cocoa powder do not provide much sweetness. Before adding it, try the mixture to estimate if you indeed need it.

• Unsweetened cocoa powder (optional) – To be honest, you don’t even need cocoa powder at all. When I first made these chocolate balls I only used basic cookies, walnuts, and dark chocolate. It turned out perfectly sweet! However, it all depends on the type of cookies and chocolate you use, and how much sweetened they already are.
  • You can use raw, organic cacao powder, but keep in mind that using organic cacao powder may be bitter in taste, but higher in nutritional content, so it is a healthier option. If you’re using raw cacao powder, you may need to make up for the missing sweetness with more honey, dates, or other sweetener of choice.

• Salt (preferably sea salt or Himalayan) – Salt helps to balance out the sweetness and enhances the flavor of the ingredients.

Why You’ll Love These Healthy Chocolate Balls

• Require only 20-30 minutes – Exhausting, work-demanding day, but craving something healthy, yet sweet? No problem, girl, I got you!!! These Chocolate Balls are so good, mount-watering, and best of all healthy, that you end up wanting more!

• Insanely easy to make – These Healthy Chocolate Balls are extremely easy to make, which is the best thing if you’re overly busy, exhausted, and just don’t have the time and willingness to spend 3 hours in the kitchen to satisfy your sugar cravings!

• Only 3 simple ingredients you already have – To prepare these Healthy Chocolate Balls you’ll only need 3 main simple ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen –  3 main ingredients – basic plain cookies, walnuts, dark chocolate, and as usual, basic one to enhance the flavor, salt + honey and cocoa powder as the optional ingredients to add sweetness if needed.

• Healthy – Refined sugar-free; dairy-free; egg-free, flour-free 

How To Make Chocolate Balls

Step 1: Blend basic plain cookies and walnuts (around 100 grams of walnuts for the mixture, and 50 grams for the topping). If you are using unsweetened cocoa powder, add 3-4 teaspoons of it to the mixture. Mix it all well. Also, if you’re using honey as the additional sweetener add 1 teaspoon to the mixture – it is optional, and depends on the sweetness of the cookies and chocolate you’re using!

Step 2: On low-medium heat, melt 200 grams of dark chocolate and add 1-2 teaspoons of oil (I used coconut oil) to create a more liquid texture (if the chocolate is too thick add more oil, but do not overdo it, otherwise it won’t help hold the ball!)Stir until well combined and melted. You will need around 150 grams of chocolate for the balls, and another 50 grams for the topping.

Pour 150 grams of melted dark chocolate into the cookie-nut mixture.

Pro tip: Start adding melted dark chocolate little by into the cookie-nuts mixture while stirring it, so you can estimate the thickness of the mix more easily. If it’s too thick, add a drop of warm water or a teaspoon of oil to make it more liquid. You don’t want to add too much water/oil and make the mixture too liquid and unable to create and hold a ball. So, pour carefully!

Step 3: Mix everything well and evenly until the dry texture suitable for making balls is formed.

Step 4: Now it is time to make these Chocolate balls! Simply, with your hands, create medium-sized balls, and roll them until no crumbs are left. It will make around 15 medium balls!

Step 5: Use another 40-50 grams of walnuts (or other nut of choice), and use the 50 grams of melted dark chocolate that you left aside. Mix them to create the mixture. That’s where you are going to dip chocolate balls into.

Dip the Chocolate balls into the chocolate-nut mixture. Eat immediately, or place in the fridge to solidify for an hour!

Tips And Ideas

• Instead of dipping Chocolate Balls into the chocolate-nut mixture, use desiccated coconut – if you want an even easier option, and don’t want to mess with a liquid chocolate-nut mixture, you can use desiccated coconut as an alternative. It works awesome too!

• You can also add dates to the mixture to enhance the sweetness, but I think it would be too much since they’re naturally very high in sugar. But, it all depends on your basic cookie and dark chocolate sweetness. However, if you decide to add a few dates, simply mix them with a fork in another small bowl until a jam-like texture is created. Believe me, it can be created by just squashing it with a fork!