Fertility
Vanilla peanut butter & cacao chip bliss balls (no food processor required!)
Stefanie Valakas, Nutritionist | 7 Jul 2024
Peanut-buttery, vanilla, maple and cacao bliss balls? Yes please!
Expert nutritionist Stefanie Valakas shares a mouth-watering, healthy and fertility-friendly snack to enjoy, at home or out and about. And the best bit, for us? There’s not a food processor in sight.
Stefanie is an Australia-based Accredited Practising Dietitian and Nutritionist, and director of The Dietologist, a private practice focused on nourishing growing families from conception-planning onwards.
Here’s her (screen grab and save-to-photos) favourite bliss balls recipe. Packed with yumminess, from vanilla and peanut butter to chocolatey cacao and maple, it’s our go-to for a one-bite fibre and antioxidant boost.
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Our favourite bliss balls recipe
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp good-quality peanut butter (crunchy or smooth)
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ¼ cup vanilla-flavoured protein powder
- ¼ cup ground almonds, or almond meal
- 2 tbsp cacao chips
- water to bind (as needed)
Method
- Pop wet ingredients into the bowl first, then dry ingredients and combine
- Add water if required, to get to a moist roll-able texture
- Roll into bite-sized balls
- Refrigerate for at least 4 hours (or leave overnight, if you can wait!)
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