Hey everyone! I have two words for you: happiness balls. And this is gonna be a
really happy episode because I have another two words for you:
Melissa Hemsley! *snap*
-Hey Melissa! -Hello! God she's good, isn't she? -Haha! Thank you for having us into your home as well.
-My pleasure. -Your place is amazing.
We are going to make a recipe from your new cookbook...
Yeah! So Katie said to me, "can I come over to your new place and make some recipes?"
And I was flipping through my book and I was like, which recipe feels like Katie would
love it? And I thought the Happiness Balls! The chocolate-covered cheerful
balls. So what I would do is if I have a dinner party, I have my cocktail and I
stir the mix then I put it in the fridge. We eat dinner and then I get them out
and we all sit and roll the balls together and eat them. And everybody --who
doesn't have audience interaction? -You're acing the dinner party thing! -No because
I'm just delegating it, so I have less to do. -Yeah that's so good. -Key tip for dinner
parties is: don't think not to have people around because you think so much
effort -- give them that effort! -Yeah -People love to do stuff.
-They feel like they're helping! -Yeah, exactly. -They ARE helping!
-Alright let's go make these happiness balls, shall we? -Let's go!
Okay Katie, Happiness Balls coming. Incoming over here, into
the kitchen! So we've got nut butter, we've got maple syrup, we've got cocoa
powder, coconut oil and it's gonna be gorgeous and luscious and did I mention
they're vegan? So we have a vegan friend coming over later, right, so this is
perfect. But if you're not vegan, doesn't matter, it's just really good whole food
ingredients and completely delicious and everybody loves them and everybody gets
happy! All that we need to do is basically get everything to melt and get
completely luscious and mixed through. This is a really small spoon -- you can see I'm not really
measuring things out. That's about 8 tablespoons of coconut oil, 8
tablespoons of maple syrup, then I want about 240 grams of nut butter so this is
about 500 grams and I want half of it, so in I go. 180 grams of cocoa powder. I've
got some salt in here, any salt you like, I like the flaky salt.
Then all you're doing is just stirring this together. You've got kids, or you've
got God kids -- I've got four God kids -- this is quite a nice one for them to do
because the heat is low they're basically just stirring. You could let
them stir with you, could let them add things.
It's rich! You can have one ball --
I'm sure we'll have more than one ball... just so that we can show you
how delicious they are and try all the different toppings... but that's about it now! Look, it's all mixed, that was
just a nice low heat. It is melted, it is luscious, it is gooey. It took all of
five seconds. -It really did! -Then take your dish... now, the wider your
dish is, the quicker it's gonna set, so you know don't use a small bowl because
it will take ages for the different heights to set, so it's
gonna go all in. Okay, that's your bit. -Ooo!
You know, good ingredients cost money; we
mustn't waste a thing, so we're just gonna get it all. There's always little ways you
can tweak things to save a bit more time, make things efficient, which is what you
want because you want to spend less time in the kitchen and more time enjoying.
And if you are in the kitchen, you want it to be as stress-free as possible. I
have lots tips for things like changing it up, so you know, making it maybe some
the cinnamon, like I'm saying Mexican spice little balls, that would be
really good. Could put a bit of lime in there, too - that would be amazing!
Or, speaking of citrus, orange extract you could put in, add a bit of
peppermint extract in there, which would be divine. You can add a bit of rum! You
could add a bit of whiskey! Any of these things, you just chuck it into that pan.
-However you like to be happy! -Whatever makes you happy!
If you're short on time, chuck it in the freezer, but we've got a bit of time
because! ... one sec...
-I made them already!! *laughs! -Woo!
So have a little look,
Um, I knew you wouldn't be able to wait, so I put this
in the fridge just before you arrived, so this has been in there for like 30 minutes.
So Katie, we need to do toppings! We have
got pistachio nuts, which I'm gonna chop over here. We've got hazelnuts and we
have got coconut, desiccated coconut -- or as somebody said to me other day,
she was calling it "designated coconut." I was like, "that still works!"
This is about two tablespoons of pistachios and then a few tablespoons of desiccated, or shredded,
coconut. -Those are our three toppings. You can also do things like freeze-dried
raspberries, you might have to order those online, not all shops have them.
Freeze-dried raspberries, which are what they say on the tin: raspberries freeze-dried.
They're bright pink and luscious. You could use rose petals,
you could get a gorgeous array. And now we're quite simply roll! So this is the
bit where I'm saying delegate to your guests.
Pour them a glass of wine, get them to wash their hands and roll all the balls
and coat them, and they can eat as they go along. You can make a gorgeous
platter. A nice cake stand would be good, if you've got one, or just pick your
prettiest plate, pile it high, a bit of marble...I mean, it looks so good at a party.
-And you can do all of these things in advance! -I popped in to help Melissa roll;
it's so fun and easy!
*Melissa counting the truffles*
...20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 32, 33...
Oh my god, 33! 30 for me, 3 for you! *laughter*
Hello! Hello...
-I made her happy. -Oh my god. I'm so happy.
-Sorry for talking with our mouth full. -Oh my god. -Isn't that good and rich?! -This is all I want after a meal.
-Melissa, these are amazing. -So we've got our pistachio ones, our coconut ones, our
hazelnut ones. You can roll them with whatever you like, you can even just
simply do a dusting of cocoa powder. -You can have so much fun with these, you
really can personalize them. Tell everyone where they can find you.
In London! You can find these recipes in my book, "Eat Happy."
Katie's gonna make 'em, you will be making them all the time. Keep these,
actually, make them really small and bite-size and put them in a glass jar
tied with a ribbon and give it to someone you love. That's a really good
present. Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, Christmas Day, the works.
Or like, if you have to go and have a review with your boss, yeah,
you could take in a little jar. That's not sucking up, people need to eat!
-Lastly, Melissa tell these fine folks what not to forget. - Keep it quirky! -Mm-hmm!
If you guys enjoyed this video, go listen to the interview I did with Melissa for my
podcast, Keep It Quirky! I'm linking to it in the description box below. It's
available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, SoundCloud and wherever you find your
podcasts. I hope you enjoy these Happiness Balls, they really are delightful.
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