{"id":709,"date":"2017-07-22T19:40:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T19:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/2017\/07\/22\/cocoa-balls\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T16:33:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T16:33:27","slug":"cocoa-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/2017\/07\/22\/cocoa-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocoa Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><i>Recipe discovered in Shape.com\u2019s roundup of energy bar recipes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shape.com\/healthy-eating\/healthy-recipes\/10-easy-recipes-homemade-energy-bars\">http:\/\/www.shape.com\/healthy-eating\/healthy-recipes\/10-easy-recipes-homemade-energy-bars<\/a> <\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>Recipe adapted from &nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acouplecooks.com\/cherry-hazelnut-energy-bars\/\">https:\/\/www.acouplecooks.com\/cherry-hazelnut-energy-bars\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Ingredients<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00bc cup cocoa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 cup dried figs, soaked in water (or rum, I suppose)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 cup hazelnuts, toasted<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00bd quick oats<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00bd cup raisins (added because the recipe wasn\u2019t sticking together)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00bc cup almond butter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b>Directions<\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In food processor, blend ingredients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather than cut into bars, I grabbed small fistfuls and squeezed to press them together. They looked like Peking ravioli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I keep the bars in a container in the freezer. For my first batch, all I had was cocoa drink mix with sugar. The texture was enhanced by the sugar crunch, but next time, I\u2019ll make it with unsweetened cocoa. I don\u2019t need it extra sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recipe discovered in Shape.com\u2019s roundup of energy bar recipes: http:\/\/www.shape.com\/healthy-eating\/healthy-recipes\/10-easy-recipes-homemade-energy-bars Recipe adapted from &nbsp;https:\/\/www.acouplecooks.com\/cherry-hazelnut-energy-bars\/ Ingredients \u00bc cup cocoa 1 cup dried figs, soaked in water (or rum, I suppose) 1 cup hazelnuts, toasted \u00bd quick &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","latest_post","no_image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitorythoughts.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}