Snack

Hazelnut and Cocoa Date Balls

Name: Hazelnut and Cocoa Date Balls
Prep time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: 50 g Hazelnuts; 6 dates, about 120 g Medjool dates; 3 tsp, about 9 g Cocoa powder; 40 g Rolled oats; A pinch Salt

Toasted hazelnuts, cocoa and dates, which together taste a great deal like the spread in the jar. 140 kcal a ball.

Calories: 140kcal
Protein: 3g
Fat: 6g
Carbs: 19g

Per serving, makes 6. 20 minutes of work, then 30 minutes in the fridge. Published 8 September 2026.

Allergens

Gluten
Tree nuts

Oats count as a gluten cereal under UK labelling and ordinary oats are milled alongside wheat. Certified gluten-free oats are a separate ingredient here.

Flags follow UK labelling rules and come from the ingredients as listed, not from any particular brand. Check the packet before cooking for somebody with an allergy.

Ingredients

Hazelnuts50 g
Medjool dates6 dates, about 120 g
Stoned weight.
Cocoa powder3 tsp, about 9 g
Rolled oats40 g
Dry weight.
SaltA pinch

Method

Toast the hazelnuts in a dry pan over a medium heat for five minutes, shaking often, until the skins split and they smell roasted. Tip into a tea towel and rub off most of the skins.
Blitz the hazelnuts to coarse crumbs, then add the pitted dates, cocoa, oats and salt and pulse until the mix clumps around the blade.
Roll into six balls, pressing hard so they hold, and chill for half an hour.

Worth knowing

Toasting is not optional. Raw hazelnuts taste of very little and the skins are bitter; five minutes in a pan changes both.
Hazelnuts are the fat and the dates are the sugar. Halving the hazelnuts and doubling the oats gives a drier, plainer ball with fewer calories, but less of the point.

Other snack recipes that share ingredients with this one, or every snack under 300 calories a serving.

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Macros are calculated from the weights listed above using standard food composition values, and will shift with your own brands and measuring. Weigh what you can. This is a recipe, not dietary advice. The full health disclaimer is below.