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close up photo of pumpkin spice bliss balls, revealing the texture of the oats, spiced and chocolate chips
Janelle Carss

PUMPKIN SPICE BLISS BALLS

Pumpkin Spice Bliss Balls are the energy-packed ‘autumn bombs’ you never knew you needed! Chewy, naturally sweet and oozing with fall flavour, they make for the perfect grab-n-go breakfast or morning coffee companion.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Servings: 14 bliss balls
Course: Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine: Canadian
Ingredients Equipment Method Video Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 8 medjool dates, pitted (soaking for 5 mins in hot water recommended)
  • ½ cup pumpkin purée (NOT pumpkin pie filling)
  • 2 tbsp maple syrup/agave/date syrup
  • ¼ cup sunflower seed butter (or nut/seed butter of preference)
  • 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
  • ½ tsp vanilla extract
  • ¼ tsp pink himalayan salt
  • 1½ rolled oats (gluten-free if needed)
  • ½ cup oat flour (oats blended in a blender)
  • 2 flax eggs (2 tbsp ground flax + 6 tbsp water, sit for 10 mins)
  • ¼ cup dairy free chocolate chips

Equipment

  • Food processor

Method
 

  1. Pit and soak the medjool dates in hot water for 5 minutes. In the meantime, make the oat flour by blitzing up some rolled oats in the blender until it becomes a fine flour, about 10 to 20 seconds.T
  2. To the bowl of your food processor, add the soaked dates, pumpkin purée, maple syrup, vanilla, and sunflower seed butter and pulse it several times until a somewhat uniform paste has formed.
  3. Add all the remaining ingredients, minus the chocolate chips, and process until it’s just become a dough. Fold in the chocolate chips  with a spatula.
  4. Scoop out 2 tbsp-sized dollops of the dough and shape them with your hands into a ball. Place them in a parchment lined container and repeat with the remaining dough. Chill in the fridge to firm up for an hour and then enjoy!

Video

Notes

If you don't have a food processor you can make this recipe by first combining all the wet ingredients together in a large bowl. You'll need to mash the dates very well into the other wet ingredients with a potato masher or fork. Soaking the dates for a little longer will help them to break apart easier. 
Follow the remaining steps by adding the dry ingredients + choc chips into the wet ingredients and folding them in with a wooden spoon or spatula.