Nut Butter Cups or Balls

By JenHall

haven't had these

Ingredients

• If making Balls, use these ingredients:
• 1/3 - 1/2 cup Vanilla Almond Butter (chilled for 24 hours)
• 1 tablespoon golden flax meal
• 1 cup dark chocolate 73%
• 1/2 cup Vanilla Almond Butter
• 2 tablespoons (or more) golden flax meal
• 1 cup dark chocolate 73%
• celtic sea salt

Preparation

Step 1

Stir flax meal into vanilla almond butter

Melt chocolate in a small pan over very low heat; you can use a double boiler if you wish and temper the chocolate

Using a small paint brush, coat the bottom and sides of a nut butter cup mold with chocolate

Place mold in freezer for 10 minutes to allow chocolate to harden

Remove mold from freezer

Scoop a scant teaspoon of vanilla almond butter into each chocolate lined nut butter cup (i use a mini ice cream scoop)

Paint chocolate over the nut butter to cover and make final layer

Place in freezer for 10 minutes to harden

Remove from freezer, turn mold upside down and pop nut butter cups out of mold

If you don't have a mold, make them into balls as follows:

Add flax meal to vanilla almond butter to make it easier to handle

Roll Vanilla Almond Butter into balls

Melt chocolate in a small pan over very low heat; you can use a double boiler if you wish and temper the chocolate

Drop balls into a pot of melted chocolate and take out with tongs, laying on a piece of parchment paper

Allow to harden

Sprinkle with salt