Chocolate Cake Pops

Chocolate Cake

• 3 ½ oz dry-roasted peanuts
• 4 oz pitted dates, halved
• 2 large eggs
• 1 oz neutral oil, e.g. vegetable, canola, safflower
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 7 oz buttermilk
• 3 ½ oz all-purpose flour
• 1 oz cocoa powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 - 2 pinches salt

Cake Pops

• 1 tbsp freeze-dried raspberries
• 1 oz dry-roasted peanuts
• 3 ½ oz crunchy peanut butter, unsweetened
• 14 oz dark chocolate, in pieces (see Tip)
  or 14 oz white chocolate, in pieces (see Tip)
• 1 ½ oz neutral oil, e.g. vegetable, canola, safflower
• unsweetened shredded coconut, raw or toasted, to coat (optional)
• sugar sprinkles, colored, to decorate (optional)