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Christmas Beetles

Vegetarian Snacks Dessert

A perfect mid morning or after dinner Christmas themed snack

10 mins
4 ingredients
$0.63 / person
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Christmas Beetles

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Ingredients

Serves = 4

  • 4 Medjool dates
  • 20g Dark chocolate
  • 1 tbsp Natural, crunchy peanut butter
  • 4 pretzel sticks, broken into 1-2cm pieces

It’s this easy

  1. Slice dates lengthways to remove the pit, and break pretzels into 1-2 cm pieces (for legs)

  2. Add 1 tsp of peanut butter to the date where the pit used to be. Repeat for all dates

  3. Stick 2-3 pieces of pretzel into either side of the date (to look like legs)

  4. Melt chocolate until runny

  5. Dip whole date in chocolate. Repeat for all dates.

  6. Place on a plate lined with baking paper and cool in the fridge for 1 hour until chocolate has set

Tweaks

Use any type of chocolate you have on hand.

Notes

Nutrition information (per serve):

  • Energy (588kJ)

  • Protein (2.7g)

  • Total fat (5.4g)

  • Saturated fat (1.9g)

  • Carbohydrate (22g); Starch (5.7g), Sugars (16.2g), Added sugars (1.7g), Free sugars (1.7g)

  • Dietary fibre (2.1g)

  • Sodium (46mg)

  • Calcium (17mg)

  • Iron (1.0mg)

Allergies

Contains: Gluten, Dairy, Nuts, Sesame, Wheat, FODMAPs.

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