Coconut Cashew Apricot Protein Balls 

These make a super- healthy alternative to crisps. A lot of people ask us if they are deep fried or contain cheese, and the answer to that is … NO! Kale is among the most highly nutritious vegetable containing lots of powerful nutrients. Kids will love them too!

Ingredients: (serves 1)

11 cup cashew nut butter (make your own or buy in a jar)* 
1/2 cup porridge oat flour** 
1/2 cup desiccated coconut, plus extra to roll each ball in 
1/4 cup vanilla protein powder 
1/4 cup dried soft apricots 
2 tbsp maple syrup

* To make your own cashew nut butter, simply put cashews in a food processor on high speed for 10 -12 minutes until smooth. It may become a ball, in which case break it up a couple of times until it has smoothed out. If you have a high speed blender (e.g. a vitamix) you can reduce this time to about 3 -5 minutes. If using a vitamix to make nut butters, you must ensure you put in a good quantity of nuts (i.e. at least 2 cups) because of the shape of the vitamix container.

**(to make oat flour, simply place oats in a vitamix or blender until ground into flour consistency)