This might work!
Cream cheese cake balls that are dairy-free, sugarless, gluten-free, grain-free, healthy, raw and delicious?
And about which the 14 year old says, "Okay Mom, they are not terrible." Woot! High praise indeed. The impossible dream?
Well, maybe.
It's all true, except for the cream cheese.
There is none of that in the recipe, but I made these and asked the guys what they reminded them of and they came up with the name.
Actually they said they tasted pumpkin too, but I thought that was really stretching it.
Who knew dates are the secret ingredient?
None of the guys and they will not!
3/4 cup carrots, peeled, diced (2 or 3 full sized)
4 dates (pitted and diced)
1 teaspoon minced ginger root (I use the stuff from the jar in the fridge)
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon orange extract
1/2 cup pecans
I have a good food processor, so I did it all together using my processor blade, but try chopping the carrots first then remove and do the rest and add the carrots to thoroughly combine into a dough. I used my handy-dandy melon baller and then rolled them in coconut.
This is the birthday cake ball recipe that my dear friend Pam researched and fed to me for my September birthday. It's taken a month to get it replicated. I hope you love it as much as I do.
Reality Bite: And for the record, I still do not like dates... alone. (hee,hee.)
Last posted 10-29-13
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