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White Chocolate Coated Lemon-Cashew Bites (Raw, Vegan)

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Remember me? It’s been such a long time since I was regularly posting…I mentioned last time that I was working full-time and the crazy long hours were why I hadn’t been blogging. Well, the long and short of it is that that job was definitely not right for me. I won’t go into details but I’m moving onto better and brighter things and am determined to make the time for blogging while doing so.

I missed everything about it, and especially all of you (!) too much to not keep it up so I hope you’ll have me back!

White Chocolate Coated Lemon-Cashew Bites (Raw, Vegan) | coconutandberries.com

Lemony foods make me think of spring. Maybe it’s because daffodils and fluffy ducklings are yellow…or perhaps just because I tend to be drawn to lighter, fresher flavours at this time of year. Whatever it is, we’re kicking things back off around these parts with a healthy lemony snack/dessert.

Cashew flour for Lemon-Cashew Bites

Whiz up your cashews in the food processor until flour-like

These White Chocolate Coated Lemon-Cashew bites are mighty tasty and just so happen to be raw, vegan, paleo and candida-diet friendly! Nice to have something everyone can enjoy…not that I did a lot of sharing!

Making Lemon-Cashew Bites

They take just a few minutes and a few ingredients to put together. You *could* stop after the first couple of steps I suppose for plain ole Lemon-Cashew bites but I highly recommend making that little extra effort and going for the white chocolate coating too. The sweet creamy chocolate balances out the zingy interior perfectly and takes these into treat territory.

White Chocolate Coated Lemon-Cashew Bites (Raw, Vegan) | coconutandberries.com

 I’ve talked before about my past fondness for white chocolate and last year came up with a recipe for raw, vegan white chocolate chips which I’m pretty happy with.

I recycled that recipe here for the white chocolate coating with just a teeny tweak to use coconut instead of cashew butter (along with cacao butter). If you don’t have cacao butter then feel free to replace it with an equal amount of coconut butter + 1 tsp coconut oil. Still delicious!

I made the bites from cashew flour - just whole cashews ground into flour using my Froothie Optimum 9400 Blender - works great!

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White Chocolate Coated Lemon-Cashew Bites (Raw, Vegan)

Yield: 15 Bites

Ingredients

  • Lemon Cashew Bites:
  • 1 ¾ C Cashew flour*
  • 1 Tbsp Lemon juice
  • 1 Tbsp Lemon zest (zest of 1 large lemon)
  • Pinch of Vanilla powder
  • 1 Tbsp Coconut oil, melted
  • 1 Tbsp Coconut nectar(or liquid sweetener of choice)
  • Pinch of salt
  • White Chocolate Coating:
  • 4 Tbsp Melted cacao butter (Approx 55 g)*
  • 3 Tbsp Raw coconut butter
  • 1 Tbsp Coconut nectar + 5 drops stevia (or an extra 1 Tbsp coconut nectar)
  • Pinch of vanilla powder

Instructions

    For the Lemon-Cashew Bites:
  1. Add all ingredients for the lemon-cashew bites to a food processor and pulse until combined. You should have a thick dough-like consistency but it shouldn't be too sticky or wet.
  2. Roll the mixture into small balls and place on a plate covered in parchment paper in the freezer to firm up.
    3. For the White chocolate coating:
  3. Gently melt the cacao butter and coconut butter together over a double boiler (glass bowl over a pot of boiling water), remove from heat and add the vanilla powder, coconut nectar and stevia, if using.
  4. Set aside to thicken up slightly for 5-10 minutes at room temperature, stirring occasionally.
  5. Dip each bite in the chocolate coating until it is completely covered. Scoop out carefully with a fork, and tap the fork handle on the edge of the bowl so that excess coating drips back into the bowl. Place back on the parchment lined plate and return to the freezer until coating is solid (about 5 minutes); then repeat the coating process once more.

Notes

*To make cashew flour grind raw cashews in a food processor until a flour (see image)

*Cacao butter may be replaced with more coconut butter. In this case, the mixture will be less liquid and so should be kept over a pot of hot water to prevent it seizing up whilst coating the bites.

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 White Chocolate Coated Lemon-Cashew Bites (Raw, Vegan) | coconutandberries.com

Thanks for all your kind messages asking after me while I was away. It meant a lot to me. 

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Comments

  1. Welcome back…you were missed!

    These look delicious…I plan to make these for an Easter treat.

  3. nice to have you back but even better to hear you have been able to sort out your work to suit you better - and those balls sounds interesting but a bit lemony for me - though I think I would love them with lime

  5. Welcome back! These look terrific. I have a similar treat on my blog that’s spicy and more wintery, but I love the lemon idea! Going to try these as my “spring is here” treat! :)

  7. Welcome back- so good to hear from you again. hope your next job works out :) I love the look of these; perfect after work treat for me!

  8. Welcome back Emma. It is good to see a blog post from you. Everyone missed you. I am glad that you are no longer at a job that does not suit you. Time is precious so why waste it? Love your post - as usual.

    • Thank you Sharon. I’m definitely on the same page. Every day I was there was a day I could have been doing something which would make me happy! Glad to be blogging again of course.

    • Thank you Jo. That means a lot :) I’ve learnt a lot from the experience - especially that I need to be in an environment that makes me happy and doing something I’m passionate about!

  10. Welcome back! Glad you’ve got the time to blog again. I think it’ll be a long time before I doxp This is a gorgeous looking recipe! I’m usually not into lemon flavoured desserts but here I reckon this tart/sweet combination would probably win me over:D

  13. You’re back!! Nice to have you positing again, but totally understand why you have been absent. I am planning on making homemade chocolate over the Easter period and so these when I get some cacao butter I definitely want to make these! Look forward to more posts from you :)

    • Thanks Nicola. So pleased to be back! I am definitely going to take your idea and make some homemade chocolate for Easter too. Hope you enjoy these. They’re good with just a simple dark chocolate coating as well.

    • Thanks Vicky. It’s a learning curve and I did get a lot out of the experience - even if it was finding out what I don’t want to do!
      Hope you get to try these treats :)

  17. I made these yesterday and they were so yummy! I just happen to have all of the ingredients and thought I’d give it a shot. I love lemony sweets so this was right up my alley and I was curious about trying the white chocolate! Soooo good I couldn’t stop eating them! They were easy to make too, although mine weren’t nearly as pretty as yours! I’ll put my photo on IG later and tag you! Thanks for the recipe!

  18. I am complete sucker for treats like this. You have nailed the flavours, and of course in a super-blender like the Froothie it is incredibly easy to achieve a fab texture that makes you reach for more! Great recipe. Pinning etc!

  19. These look absolutely amazing!!!

    I love lemon, it’s one of my favourite flavours!

    Lemon tart is one of my absolute favourite things, but these look equally delicious!

    Lorna | naturally-bee.blogspot.co.uk |

  21. Love these lemony treats…they are delicious!

    I had a problem with the coating and I hope you can tell me what I did wrong. I followed the recipe except I used vanilla extract instead of vanilla powder. My coating melted fine…I let it cool about 8 minutes and the sweetener congealed and separated from the oil. I tried reheating, but that didn’t help. Do you think I heated it too much and the coconut nectar turned to candy? I don’t have much experience with cocoa butter so I don’t know what went wrong.

    Thanks.

    • Hi June, glad you enjoyed them, even if the coating didn’t turn out quite right.
      I imagine you’re right and you just heated it too much. The best way to avoid separation is to heat gently and stir frequently. Hope that helps! Thanks for trying the recipe.

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