Cacao Cherry Bites

When we went to the veg fest someone made Cacao Cherry Bites and we loved them. We are trying to come up with a recipe to make them at home. You can replace the sunflower butter with any unsweetened nut butter. You can replace the sunflower seeds with hemp seeds, any nut or seed. You can replace the tart cherries with your favorite dried fruit.

Ingredients:

1 cup pitted dates
1/2 cup dried tart cherries
1/2 cup sunflower seeds
2 TBS cacao nibs
8 oz unsweetened sunflower butter
3 TBS cacao powder
2 TBS chia seeds
1 TBS vanilla
1 TBS maple syrup
1/2 tsp sea salt

Directions: place the first ingredients in a food process and process until the dried fruit and sunflower seeds are chopped well. Add the remaining ingredients and process until fairly smooth. Using a cookie scoop (~a TBS) make balls. Yields ~36 bites