No Bake Date And Almond Energy Balls

There is no recipe here so much as a ratio: roughly equal weights of dried fruit and nuts, a handful of oats to take up the slack, and enough cocoa to stop it tasting like a health food.

Once you have made them once you will not measure again.

Dates are the binder, so the dates decide everything. Soft, sticky fruit rolls into balls that hold; dry fruit gives you rubble whatever else you add.

No sweetener, no syrup, nothing to hold it together but the fruit itself.