Vegan Carrot Cake Energy Balls (V/GF)

I think Carrot Cake might be one of my favorite flavor combinations. Enter – these Vegan Carrot Cake Energy Balls. The perfect healthier alternative to bring to any Spring gatherings or keep in your fridge and snack on whenever your hungry.

How to make Vegan Energy Balls

For this recipe, you start by blending together a base of half dates and half raisins (although you can easily do just dates or just raisins if you don’t have one of these ingredients on hand). Personally, I like the addition of the raisins in this recipe because it adds to the carrot cake flavor.

After blending your dates & raisins in a food processor (should form into a large ball), you then add in your wet ingredients and blend, followed by your dry ingredients, and blend.

Lastly, you pulse in the final add in’s to keep them chunky – shredded carrots, toasted coconut flakes, and roasted pecans.

Finish them off by rolling into balls and coating in shredded coconut flakes for extra coconut flavor in every bite.

Bliss Balls, Raw Bites, Energy Balls, Date balls

Whatever you call them, here are a few reasons I think they’re great:

• a great portable, on-the-go snack
• you can make a big batch and keep the extras frozen in your freezer
• naturally sweetened with dates
• healthier dessert + snacking alternative

If you need other raw snack/dessert bar ideas, make sure to check out my Raw Snickers Bars or my 4 Ingredients Peanut Almond Energy Bites.

I’d love to hear what you think if you try these bites. You can leave a note in the comments below…psstt– it helps with my website rankings! OR, I’d love if you snap a photo and tag me over on the gram’ @themindfulhapa.

Vegan Carrot Cake Energy Balls (V/GF)

Prep: 5 minutes minutes

Cook: 10 minutes minutes

Total: 15 minutes minutes

Servings: 25 bites

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Sweet + chewy vegan energy balls filled with your favorite carrot cake flavors - cinnamon, raisins, pecans, coconut, and carrots (duh!). The perfect healthy snacking or dessert bite that takes minimal ingredients and less than 15 minutes to whip up in your food processor.

Ingredients

Vegan Carrot Cake Energy Balls

• 1/2 cup pitted deglet or medjool dates (soak in hot water for 10 minutes if dried out)
• 1/2 cup black raisins
• 1/2 cup cashew butter
• 1.5 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 cups almond flour
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 ea. large carrot shredded (heaping 1/3 cup, packed)
• 1/2 cup toasted coconut flakes
• 1/2 cup pecans roasted

optional

• 1/3 cup finely shredded coconut flakes for rolling balls

Instructions

• Blend dates and raisins in food processor until blended.
• Add cashew butter and vanilla extract. Blend until smooth.
• Add almond flour and ground cinnamon. Blend until smooth.
• Add shredded carrots, pecans, and toasted coconut flakes and pulse until pecans are chopped and fully incorporated into mixture.
• Optional: roll into balls and coat with finely shredded coconut flakes.*

Notes

*I used this type of coconut flakes for coating the energy balls.

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