"healthier", easier chocolate diet snack

These are still a great snack if you are on a diet, because they are sweet and nutty and chocolatey BUT you can't eat more than a couple at a time because of the results (dates are a natural laxative). By adding a range of nuts instead of just almonds, using already roasted nuts and using the microwave to melt the chocolate I think I've made this healthy and easy.

Step 1 Ingredients

dates
roasted unsalted mixed nuts (no peanuts)
good dark cooking chocolate
rolling pin
tea towel
knife
spoon

Comments

[grannyjones]

If you like cinnamon, try Saigon cinnamon. Yum.

[suayres]

And you know, I think your recipe would be even more awesome with the addition of spice--cardamom would be sublime. So would cinnamon and/or allspice.

[alialexander]

aaah cinnamon - the sneaky spice. I find it sneaks into many things, but the way I like it (kind of the only way I like it) is Cinnamon Toast, and now I realise that I will have to do an instructable on my version of Cinnamon Toast.

[flyingpuppy]

Healthier? Easy? Chocolate? I'm in!

[suayres]

They look and sound yummy! An alternate marriage is dates, chopped nuts, and the sharpest cheddar cheese you can find. When my hub & I were 1st married, his folks said they always had stuffed dates for Xmas. I decided to make some, but didn't have a recioe, so I came up with the aforementioned mix. When I brought them, they were really surprised, because they alway stuffed them with fondqnt (I thought that would be WAY too sweet). Everyone like them so much, they became the ne family tradition!

[scoochmaroo]

Lovely! I think the "decorated by Jess" picture would make a more eye-catching main image.