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5 Sugar-Free Healthy Candy Recipes with Dates and Nuts

Five no-bake candy recipes built on a date base with mixes of cashews, hazelnuts, walnuts with cranberries, peanuts with orange zest, and almonds with coconut. All sugar-free, flour-free, naturally sweet.

3.6(5 reviews)
30 min prep / 40 min total
55 kcal
1.2g protein
50 servings
Easy

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Ingredients

Ingredients updated to metric measurements
  • 600 gIranian dates

    blended with 2 tbsp water, base for all 5 recipes

  • 100 gcashews

    recipe 1, also toasted in the pre-step

  • 100 ghazelnuts

    pre-toasted, used in recipes 2 and 3

  • 100 gwalnuts

    pre-toasted, recipe 3

  • 100 gpeanuts

    pre-toasted, recipe 4

  • 50 galmonds

    pre-toasted, recipe 5

  • 50 graisins

    recipe 1

  • 50 gdried cranberries

    recipe 3

  • orange zest with syrup

    1-2 tbsp syrup, recipe 4

  • 50 gcoconut flakes

    recipe 5

Instructions

  1. Pre-toast all nuts (cashews, hazelnuts, walnuts, peanuts, almonds) at 200 degrees C for .

  2. Blend 600 g dates with 2 tablespoons of water into a smooth paste.

  3. Recipe 1: blend cashews with raisins, combine with 100 g date paste and shape into 10-11 candies.

  4. Recipe 2: blend dried apricots with toasted hazelnuts and 100 g date paste; shape into candies.

  5. Recipe 3: blend walnuts with dried cranberries and 100 g date paste; shape into candies.

  6. Recipe 4: boil orange zest with 1-2 tablespoons of syrup, then blend with toasted peanuts and 100 g date paste; shape into candies.

  7. Recipe 5: blend toasted almonds with coconut flakes and 100 g date paste; shape into candies.

  8. Refrigerate until firm and serve.

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5 reviews

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Geraldine F.

I work nights as a nurse and I used to eat chocolate bars to get through the shift. Found these six weeks ago. I make a batch on Sunday. They keep well and the medjool dates give you enough energy without the crash you get from sugar. My colleagues keep stealing them.

Brenda O.

I give these as gifts. People assume I bought them.

Joyce W.

My husband was diagnosed type 2 six months ago. These have made the whole thing more manageable for him.

Consuelo M.

Mi madre no puede tomar azucar. Estas le encantan. Las hago cada semana.

Gabriela P.

Dates are sweet enough on their own.