These super simple Choc Mint Bliss Balls make perfect sweet treats for lunchboxes and are a great healthy snack for any time of day!

Bliss Balls

Bliss balls have had a recent surge of activity on the web – I don’t think anyone had heard of them before 2016 even!

The retail price in a bougie cafe is about $2-$5 for a single bliss ball, but you can easily make these bad boys at home in bulk for much cheaper. Bliss balls are a bite-size ball of goodness, essentially. They generally use all natural ingredients, low or no added sugar and the natural sweetness of their ingredients to make them sweet! With this recipe, as with many others, that sweet ingredient is dates. Bliss balls are so great because although they seem like a treat to the kids, they actually pack a lot of healthy ingredients, nutrients and other essentials into each bite! Many bliss balls are marketed as ‘protein’ bliss balls, because they add protein powder or nuts to the recipe to boost the protein content. If you’re vegetarian or vegan, or just need some more protein in your diet, getting your protein from a chocolatey, sweet bliss ball is just about the last place you’d expect, but that’s why they’re so sneakily good. Whatever ingredients you add to your bliss balls (like chocolate and mint for example) will mask the taste of any weird-tasting protein powder for the kids.

My favourite ones to make are carrot balls, which have apple in them as a sweetener, but bliss balls come in practically endless varieties! As long as you’ve got a strong food processor and some dates, you can make just about any kind of bliss ball you like. Of course, the best ones contain some kind of chocolate, and this recipe for Choc Mint uses raw cacao powder to achieve that taste of chocolatey delight.