Recipe request: date coconut balls without nuts

[sonia]

I'd like to make a snack out of dates and shredded coconut run through a food processor, but most recipes have nuts in them to hold it all together, and I'd like to make them without. Anyone have a recipe you like?

I did find a recipe for Coconut Date Balls that doesn't have nuts at AllRecipes, but it's so odd that I kind of wondered if it was generated by an LLM based on cookie recipes. I did try it, with some modifications.

First, it adds an entire cup of sugar, when dates are plenty sweet already. I added a little. Then it cooks beaten egg and dates and sugar on the stove, "stir occasionally." I realized I was going to end up with scrambled egg & dates if I didn't stir constantly, so I did. I added the vanilla, and substituted coconut/sunflower oil for the Tbsp of butter. Instead of crisped rice, I added about 3/4 cup sweet rice flour. It ended up tasting kind of like raw cookie dough (yum).

I started to roll the warm dough into balls and dip it into the shredded coconut (from Trader Joe's), when I realized I was going to have to get the food processor out after all to make the shredded coconut small enough to have a chance of sticking on.

I used Barhi dates because that's what I happened to get at the farmer's market a while back. They were still soft, not as dried out as I would have expected after sitting around in my cabinet for a while. And I think they're sweeter too, which made the sugar even more unnecessary.

I might try just dates and coconut and some sweet rice flour in the food processor next time. What do you all think?