Halloween Bliss Balls

Halloween is a lot of fun but it’s fair to say that it’s not much of a treat for the environment when all those plastic treat wrappers pile up for years in landfill. This year some of our Pre-School children turned Trick or Treating from a nightmare to a dream over at Redland. They went on a hunt around the nursery looking for five hidden magic ingredients then brought them back to the kitchen to transform them into blissful treats, completely free from plastic. Here’s what they found on their hunt ….

1 cup of rolled oats

250g dried dates

1/2 cup dried apricots

1/2 cup desiccated coconut

1 tablespoon cinnamon

And here’s how to the ingredients into Bliss Balls:

Tip all the ingredients into a food processor with a little splash of water and blitz until it comes together into a moist crub. Then tip out and, using clean hands, mould into balls about the size of a walnut, then skewer on a kebab stick to serve. A neat trick for a yummy treat!