Green Tea Hazelnut Bites
I am a little shocked that these bites taste so good…
I mean – how can they??? They don’t have chocolate -in any form- in them!!!
No white chocolate, dark chocolate or milk chocolate {GASP}…which doesn’t happen often in this little blog of mine (nor in my little home for that matter)!
What they do come packed with is a healthy dose of kombucha green tea, hazelnut meal and honey and a smattering of coconut oil, egg and coconut flour!
Totally delicious and Totally good for you …I came up with these when I got my first Recipe Redux assignment of “Cooking with Tea“. The Recipe Redux focuses on morphing delicious dishes into delicious AND healthy ones. I am so humbled to have been accepted into this group of Bloggers and so love their incentive to “inspire the food lover in every healthy eater and inspire the healthy eater in every food lover”!
I am not a big tea connoisseur, but I do love kombucha green tea …I first wanted to make green tea scones with white chocolate but then realized that white chocolate is not the healthiest one of its cousins – so, since most of my dark chocolate was used up in experimenting on Soup, I figured I would take a chance and go chocolate-free! The coconut flour was added in at the very last minute to make the dough more manageable.
These are not only healthy but -with 6 ingredients & 3 optional ones- they are super easy too! One bowl, one tray, one spoon, and one oven – gives new meaning to “one and done“! 🙂
Now, here’s one bite…
I Googled “tea bites” and could not find any others…which lead me to wondering…
Have you baked with tea before?
Ingredients
For the bites
- 2 cups hazelnut meal
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/4 cup freshly brewed kombucha green tea I use 2 bags for one cup
- 2 tablespoons melted coconut oil
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons coconut flour
Topping
- 1 teaspoon Sesame seeds
- 1 teaspoon brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
- In a bowl, add the hazelnut meal, honey, green tea, coconut oil and egg and mix well and then mix in the coconut flour
- Form into balls/bites (I made 10 out of this), flatten slightly and place on a parchment lined baking tray
- Sprinkle with sesame seeds
- Bake for 20 minutes
- Let cool for about 15 minutes and sprinkle with mixed up cinnamon and brown sugar (optional)
Notes
Now that is a crazy stellar combo 😉