Chocolate Orange Sunbursts

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Category: Recipes

Yield: about 13 balls or 12 bars

Ingredients:
1 cup almonds, soaked over night
1/2 cup sunflower seeds, soaked for two hours
1/4 cup flax seeds
1/4 cup cacao nibs
1 3" True cinnamon stick
2 Tbsp orange peel
1/2 cup almond butter
1/2 vanilla bean
1/4 tsp Celtic sea salt
2 Tbsp Agave nectar

Instructions:
• Grind flax seeds, cacao nibs, cinnamon and orange peel  to a fine powder in herb grinder.
• In a food processor, process the almonds and sunflower seeds to a coarse meal.
• Add the remaining ingredients except the agave nectar,
• Pulse a few times, then add agave nectar while continuing to process until well combined. The mixture should stick together when pressed between two fingers. Add water if necessary.
• Roll the mixture into small balls (I used heaping tablespoons). Store balls in a tightly covered container in the freezer.
• Or spread into 8 x 8 square pan, chill then cut into bars.  (Frost it with Cashew Frosting for a delicious 'tea cake').