Stuffed Dates with Peanut Butter

Make these naturally sweet stuffed dates with peanut butter, covered in chocolate to satisfy your candy cravings in a quick and healthy way. These delicious little gems will have any chocolate lover coming back for more.

Peanut butter stuffed dates are like nature's candy. The perfect bite when you're craving just a little something for dessert or an easy snack. This dried fruit will become your new favorite healthier treat.

Why You'll Love This Recipe

Dates Nature's Cady: Medjool dates are naturally sweet and chewy making them the perfect vessel for salty toasty peanut butter. And what better compliment to peanut butter than dark chocolate?

Balanced Flavors: We sprinkled some flaky sea salt on the top to bring it all together. You'll love the sweet, salty, chewy, crunchy balance of flavor and texture these little treats bring to the table. 

Easy to Make: Not to mention, they are easy to make and will last a while in the freezer so you can grab and go as often as you'd like.

Keep reading for all our tips and tricks, including some allergy-friendly substitutions and variations to suit your taste preferences. The perfect healthy snack is just a few steps away.

Ingredients

• Dark Chocolate Chips. Preferably 70% cocoa or higher.
• Coconut Oil. Helps the chocolate shell harden. 
• Natural Peanut Butter. Use crunchy or smooth.
• Medjool Dates. Naturally sweet and chewy. You can use deglet noor dates if that's what you have on hand, but they are smaller and the skins are thicker. 
• Flaky Sea Salt. Optional, but we think it makes a big difference.

How to Make Stuffed Dates with Peanut Butter

1. Step 1: Use a small sharp knife to slice the date open and remove the pit.

2. Step 2: Fill each date with peanut butter.

3. Step 3: Melt the chocolate chips and dip each date into the melted chocolate.

4. Step 4: Place the chocolate-covered dates on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and into the freezer until the chocolate hardens.

Substitutions and Variations 

All of the ingredients used in this recipe are gluten-free, but check the labels to make sure if you need a strictly gluten-free dessert. 

If you want a nut-free sweet dates recipe, swap out the peanut butter for sunflower seed butter or tahini. Check out our tahini stuffed dates recipe. If you just need to avoid peanuts, you can use almond butter, cashew butter, or any other nut butter. 

Use vegan chocolate chips for a dairy-free variation. 

Top your chocolate-covered dates with shredded coconut, sesame seeds, pistachios, poppy seeds, and crushed red pepper, or drizzle with hot honey for a different twist on the flavor profile.

Recipe Tips

• After you remove the pits from the dates, inspect to ensure there are no worms or black areas. This is rare, but best to be safe. 
• We prefer to use dark chocolate with at least 65% cocoa content, for a rich an not too sweet chocolate coating.
• Be patient while you let the melted chocolate drip off the date. It'll be worth it to have a thin coating. Remove the dates from the freezer 5 minutes before serving. 

Storage 

Stuffed dates will last 3 months in the freezer in an airtight container. Although, in our house, they're gone in less than a week! This is a great make-ahead dessert to bring to any occasion.