Healthy, wholesome chocolate energy truffles are the perfect snack to batch prepare for the moments of sugar crush!

This is yet another recipe for those beautiful little energy snacks that are full of real whole food ingredients and I love making them fairly regularly.

This version is full of natural sweetness coming from raising and full of beautiful raw cacao but because there is a bit of sugar from raisins I practice mindful snacking if you know what I mean ( =PORTIONS lol).

Raw cacao is full of flavonoids. These nutrients have been shown to help lower blood pressure, improve blood flow to the brain and heart, and aid in preventing blood clots. The flavonoids in cacao powder may help increase insulin sensitivity, reducing your risk of diabetes.

That’s plenty of reasons to eat dark chocolate very often in my books! 😜😉

why you will love those chocolate energy truffles:

easy and fast to do
actually good for you – no guilt here
very very chocolaty – Get your chocolate fix without the sugar crash!

Note on the difference between cacao and cocoa powder:

Raw cacao is made from cold-pressing un-roasted cacao beans. The process keeps the living enzymes in the cacao and removes the fat (cacao butter).

Cocoa looks the same but it’s not. Cocoa powder is raw cacao that’s been roasted at high temperatures. Unfortunately, roasting changes the molecular structure of the cacao bean, reducing the enzyme content, and lowering the overall nutritional value. I still love adding this to some of the recipes to achieve a more chocolatey flavor.

I have another two delicious recipes for those energy balls on my blog and I think you should check them out! Both are hit in our house and I prepare them weekly for work for my partner and college snacks for my teenager! 😁