Raw Chocolate Rum Raisin Balls

Raw. Vegan. No dairy. No added sugar. Instead these balls have lots of good stuff including rum.

My friend Claire gave each of us in our line dancing class a little box with boozy tasting chocolate balls which I devoured in two sittings. I texted her for the recipe but had not gotten a reply so I decided to use as a guide a recipe from my friend Sally Lipsky’s book “Beyond Cancer, The Powerful Effect of Plant Based Eating”. The recipe was called Raw Cocoa Bites which she obtained with permission from the Naked Food Magazine.

I did some tweaking to the original recipe and this is what I got below. It has that deep boozy chocolatey taste of Claire’s balls while using the healthy ingredients in Sally’s recipe. I did not stop tweaking the recipe till I was happy. Here it is.  My gift to you all.

Raw Chocolate Rum Raisin Balls

• 1 cup baby carrots
• 6 prunes
• 1/2 cup walnuts
• 1 cup oatmeal
• 1 banana
• 2 tbsp cocoa + more for coating
• 1 cup sweetened coconut flakes
• 1/4 cup raisins that have been soaked in  2 tbsp rum or more

Place the carrots, prunes and walnuts in a blender or food processor and blend till fine. 

In a bowl combine the rest of the ingredients including the rum that the raisins were soaked in and mix with fork or by hand. Add  the carrot mixture to the rest of the ingredients in the bowl and mix. Shape into balls and roll in more cocoa powder.

Nutrition Facts
Servings: 32
Amount per serving
Calories	64
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 2.3g	3%
Saturated Fat 0.9g	4%
Cholesterol 0mg	0%
Sodium 3mg	0%
Total Carbohydrate 10.6g	4%
Dietary Fiber 1.6g	6%
Total Sugars 5.1g
Protein 1.3g
Vitamin D 0mcg	0%
Calcium 9mg	1%
Iron 1mg	4%
Potassium 139mg	3%
*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calorie a day is used for general nutrition advice.