Donut Holes
makes 6-8 pieces
These are easy to make and travel with. Good for school lunch treats without all the sugar.
Ingredients
- 1 cup soaked, dried almonds
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 1 scraped vanilla bean
- 1 cup dried pineapple
- 1 cup pitted dates
- 5 tablespoons dried shredded coconut
Preparation
Mash dates, vanilla seeds and dried pineapple together by hand, add almonds chopped with seasalt and roll into balls. If they stick to your hands too much, get your hands a little wet. Roll in coconut and they’re done! Here’s a video by Ani Phyo making these: She uses a food processor to chop the nuts, but you can do it by hand as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuGjDagUWNg


Comments
Oshinlvr7 writes: (July 10, 2007)
wow! this is our first raw food experience (well at least preparing it) my husband leo couldn’t keep his hands off of them! Yummy! : )
mochatribe writes: (August 20, 2007)
My husband loved these too! I highly recommend her book. I have tried several of her cheeses and her sunflower bread. Great stuff and easy to prepare!
mochatribe writes: (August 20, 2007)
My husband loved these too! I highly recommend her book. I have tried several of her cheeses and her sunflower bread. Great stuff and easy to prepare!
Zoe writes: (August 22, 2007)
Wow!! I wasn’t expecting tham to actually taste like real donuts, but they totally do, I am in heaven!
cc78 writes: (August 22, 2007)
omg – i just tried these last night and they are incredible! i love ani phyo’s recipes :)
shortnotgold writes: (August 26, 2007)
I tried these this morning. My stuff turned out very dry and the coconut wouldn’t stick to it. Rather than throw it out (it smells wonderful!) I added a mashed banana to the “dough”, rolled the balls into coconut, mashed them down a bit (so they resemble little biscuits) and placed them on a dehydrator. They taste good as is but the dehydrator will make them stick together a bit better. I’m taking them to the office tomorrow (if they last that long).
rawmama writes: (August 26, 2007)
We made these and the only donut holes we think they taste like are those cheap little coconut ones you buy in gas stations (pre-packaged)??? I actually liked it best when I only had a little of the almonds rolled into it and some of the coconut, more gooey :) Am I supposed to dehydrate these?
cc78 writes: (August 26, 2007)
rawmama, mine were really gooey but probably because i soaked my dried pineapple so it would process more easily. i don’t think they actually taste like donut holes, but still a really good little sweet treat. i didn’t dehyrdate mine – left them all gooey.
rawmama writes: (August 28, 2007)
Thanks cc78 :)
OmniTom writes: (October 15, 2007)
these were only okay, not very sweet,don’t really taste like donuts
lstorz writes: (October 26, 2007)
I liked these a lot
- I used raisins instead of pineapple, and they tasted great -not too sweet but very satisfying. Mine definitely didn’t taste like donuts, but that was fine by me.Mynutritionist writes: (November 26, 2007)
I had everything but the pineapple, so added raisins and it was great, thanks! A book you might want to consider is Paul Pitchford Healing with Whole Foods, Asian Traditions and Modern Nutrition.
Roma writes: (January 09, 2008)
What does it mean by “one scraped vanilla bean”?
123 writes: (January 17, 2008)
I have Paul’s book. There are parts that I agree with and areas that I don’t. Whether I agree or not does not change the facts. It’s a good book, thanks. I’ve used raw food as my medicine for the last 3+ years. I can testify that raw food makes a difference in having good or bad health.
Raw vanilla is a long “bean”. It’s full of tiny seeds. Scraping means to remove the seeds by literally scraping them out.
DivineMissEm writes: (February 18, 2008)
So yeah, iīve made these twice now and I LOVE them. As raw almonds are pretty expensive and I doubled the recipe I used a combination of raw almonds, hazelnuts, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and hazelnuts. So donīt be afraid to try them with other nuts/seeds. Also because organic dried pineapple was ridiculously expensive, I dried my own YAY and it was wonderful- I also ran out of dates and substituted about 1/4 with raisins. Although Istorz and MYnutritionist- you have to try these WITH pineapple or itīs not the same! Delectable yummies!
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