Spiced Orange Cacao Sesame Orbs

Although I rarely seem to experience cravings for non-fruit sweets, for some reason I recently felt like making/eating something with a confectionery, bread/donut-esque consistency…

Upon wandering into the kitchen & perusing my culinary arsenal, I discovered a huge mass of sesame seeds, along with a fair amount of coconut butter, cinnamon, and some other key elements. After a few moments of mad kitchen science and food processor play... Spiced orange cacao & sesame orbs were born!

Ingredients

• 1 Tbsp coconut butter
• 1 Tbsp lucuma powder
• 1 Tbsp Gnosis Mayan Heat Hot Chocolate Elixir
• 1 tsp coconut nectar
• 1/2 tsp Ceylon cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp cayenne
• 1/2 scoop Sunwarrior vanilla protein
• 1/2 cup sesame seeds
• 1 Tbsp Udo's 3•6•9 veg DHA oil
• Organic blood orange peel, dried & ground into fine powder
• Spring water to consistency (mine was infused with lemons & their peels)

Preparation:

1. Place dry items in food processor, process until well-integrated.
2. Pulse in coconut butter, coconut nectar, and Udo's oil.
3. Add H2O gradually until mixture becomes a firm & slightly sticky ball of dough.
4. Roll in hands until spheres are formed, then roll in sesame seeds until evenly coated.

Warm Salted Caramel Sauce

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This creamy sauce was another fun bit of experimentation with Sunwarrior's delicious vanilla protein powder, which ended up tasting as luscious as it looked. I cannot remember the last time I devoured a mountain of apples so quickly as when they were naughtily smothered in this warm salted "caramel" sauce...

As promised, here is the formula I used to create this decadently delicious blend:

Ingredients

• 1/8 C Raw Unhulled Sesame Seeds (Organic) + 1 tsp for garnish
• 1 C Sunwarrior Vanilla protein powder
• 1 Tbsp Lucuma powder
• 2 Tbsp Coconut nectar 
• 1 Tbsp Vitamineral Earth
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 C H2O

Preparation:
Blend all ingredients in Vitamix until smooth & slightly above body temp.
Pour generously over chopped apples, garnish with reserved sesame seeds