After featuring these scrumptious beauty balls a lot recently on my YouTube, I thought it would be a good idea to share how I make them here on the website, so you can bookmark the page and refer to it if you’d like to try them yourself! These bite-size treats are surprisingly filling, and filled with lots of superfoods that not only provide the vitamins you need for great skin, hair and nails, but also ingredients that help to balance hormones, give you more energy, and stop you craving naughtier sweet treats.
What You’ll Need:
A baking tray or large plate
Thermomix or another powerful blender
A mixing bowl
Baking Parchment
Ingredients
1 box of dates
2 TBS of Coconut oil
1 scoop of pistachios
1 tbs of seeds
1 small bag berries and cherries
2 scoops Boabab powder
1 scoop Ancient and Brave Collagen powder
1 scoop Chia Seeds
1 small bag of almonds
METHOD
- Blend the dates in your Thermomix – speed 7 for 20 seconds (other blender use a slower speed so they’re not reduced to a pulp!)
- Add a couple of table spoons of Coconut Oil to your mixture & blend again for 5-10 seconds
- Add all other ingredients. You can really mix & match here depending on your preferences and what’s in your cupboard! Use whatever powders you like, whether they’re beauty supplement powders, superfoods or berry mixes etc!
- Blitz for 20 seconds again speed 7 on a Thermomix or medium speed on other blending machines, you want your seeds / nuts to still be crunchy – not all totally blended up.
- Test the mixture – is it sticky enough to create balls? If not, add more dates or coconut oil & blend again.
- Tip mixture into a bowl, place baking paper onto your baking tray, and take a handful of the mixture, roll it into a ball and place them onto the baking tray. At this stage, you can add more seeds, or roll the balls in matcha powder or desiccated coconut, or do as I like to do and add some goji berries or pistachios to your balls so there’s something to chew on!
- Place baking tray with finished balls into the fridge for one hour ish. This sets the coconut oil & cacao powder so they become more ‘solid’ individual balls and they won’t stick together when you store them.
- Store in the fridge in tupperware, separating the layers with your baking paper that they were resting on previously.
