Crunchy Peanut Butter Dates

I am still drooling overt these Crunchy Peanut Butter Dates! The whole of last week was super busy meaning long hours in the office and no time to cook really. Those are times when I feel I need that extra bit of sugar. That, in turn doesn’t work well with my goal to stick to a rather sugar reduced diet. In saying that, my office is absolute sugar hell where I am surrounded by biscuits and office cookies.

So picture me sitting in the office craving food. Food meaning sugar, really. Option number 1 is the easy way out – eating office cookies. For option number 2 I would not eat at all which usually results in eating a chocolate bar for dinner, haha. Option no 3 is: I am prepared (which I am usually not) and take healthy snacks into the office.

One of the snacks I found whenbrowsing the web were Crunchy Chocolate Covered Dates. Having one or two of those totally satisfies my sweet tooth when hitting that afternoon sugar craving. They really fill me up too! So here is my extra crunchy version of a peanut butter stuffed dates with vanilla, cocoa nibs and melted chocolate.

As mentioned in the recipe, you could totally just take a knife and spread your peanut butter on the dates but I love that you give these snacks that extra bit of decadence. Don’t you think that with the rose shaped peanut butter swirl make them look like cupcakes? I could totally see those for a healthy high tea or a birthday party as a healthy dessert alternative.

If you enjoyed my Crunchy Peanut Butter Dates, you might want to check out my Peanut Butter Pretzel Pop Bars with Maca Cream,  my Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars, my Coffee Peanut Butter Crunch Bars, and my Giant Cake Balls too.