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No Bake Peanut Butter Balls with Chocolate & Coconut – Healthy Recipe

These no-bake peanut butter balls make a great snack or light dessert. Honey, coconut, and dark chocolate chips add a nice bite of sweetness and crunch to this delightful treat. 

If you are looking for a post-workout snack that is healthy and tastes amazing, try these homemade peanut butter coconut balls. They are super easy to make, low in calories, and ready in just minutes

Energy bite recipes are very easy to put together. If you have a food processor, half the work is done for you!

Just add your ingredients and pulse, and the mixture is ready to make into balls in about 5 minutes, and ready to eat not much later!

Peanut butter energy bites in a bowl and plate and piece of burlap on top of a red towel next to some chocolate chips.

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Ingredients for these peanut butter coconut energy bites

To make these energy bites, you’ll need the following ingredients:

  • 2 cups rolled oats (most oats are gluten-free, but check your label to be sure)
  • 1/2 cup Lily’s dark chocolate premium baking chips
  • 2/3 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
  • 1/2 cup chunky peanut butter
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 tablespoon unsweetened vanilla almond milk

Making these no-bake peanut butter balls

Start by pulsing your dry ingredients in the food processor. Be sure not to overprocess them or they’ll turn into flour.

Just a few pulses of the food processor give a less “oaty” consistency but leave the chocolate chips pretty intact.Oats, coconut and chocolate chips in a food processor next to small cups of peanut butter, honey, vanilla and coconut oil.

Now you need something to bind the dry ingredients. For this recipe, it is chunky peanut butter, honey, vanilla extract, and a bit of almond milk.

Just a more quick pulses and the mixture is ready to make into balls!Oatmeal energy bites mixture in a food processor.

Some energy bites require the mixture to go into the fridge before you can start forming the balls, but not so with this recipe!  It was just sticky enough to be able to make the healthy energy balls right away.

With clean hands, scoop out enough of the dough to make 1″ balls. You should get 30 out of the mixture.

peanut butter oatmeal balls on a blue and white silicone mat.

There is no baking, so the balls are ready to try now!

Tasting these no-bake peanut butter bites

These easy peanut butter balls are slightly sweet from the honey and have a creamy flavor that comes from the peanut butter. 

Dark chocolate chips, rolled oats, and flaked coconut all add a nice bit of texture in every bite.

No bake peanut butter balls in a bowl and on a plate and piece of burlap next to chocolate chips. All are sitting on a red towel.

This is one of the easiest and tastiest recipes you can make. They really are very tasty!

Nutritional information for the peanut butter oat balls

Each of these delicious no-bake peanut butter balls has just 80 calories and is low in saturated fat and sugar.  They have 2.1 grams of protein in each ball.

Peanut butter balls recipe on plates and bowl next to a red towel and some chocolate chips.

The bites are low-calorie and gluten-free (check your label to make sure no cross-contamination), and they make a perfect snack or light dessert.

Rolled oats, chocolate chips and coconut flakes falling out of a red bowl next to a with words on it.

 

These no-bake peanut butter balls are a recipe that everyone will like. My husband has quite a sweet tooth, and he finds these just sweet enough.

You will love knowing that you can easily and quickly make a healthy snack for your kids that you will know is nutritious and they will love because of the taste.

You can even use these energy balls as a breakfast on the go. Grab a bite (or three!) and out the door in a hurry on a busy morning!

Just 8 ingredients and 15 minutes, and best of all? They just taste so darn good!

What makes energy bites such a great snack?

If you love recipes with easy clean up, energy bites are the way to go. There is no need to get out your mixture. Everything comes together in the food processor bowl.

Energy bites give you the taste and fun of a cookie, but in a less sugary way, without all the fuss of making cookie batter. 

Depending on the ingredients, you can also get a lot of protein from an energy bite that you won’t get in a normal cookie recipe.

The ingredients for energy bites can be as sweet or as healthy as you like. 

Honey was the sweetener for this recipe, but maple syrup, medjool dates, and coconut sugar are sweeteners that are other options. 

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Super easy and tasty no bake peanut butter balls

 

Yield: 30 peanut butter balls

No Bake Peanut Butter Balls with Chocolate & Coconut

no bake peanut butter oatmeal balls

These no bake peanut butter balls are sweet and crunchy and ready in just minutes. Low in calories - the perfect after workout snack!

Prep Time 5 minutes
Additional Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes

Ingredients

  • 2 cups rolled oats (most oats are gluten free but check your label)
  • 1/2 cup Lily's dark chocolate premium baking chips
  • 2/3 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
  • 1/2 cup chunky peanut butter
  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
  • 1 tablespoon unsweetened vanilla almond milk

Instructions

  1. Add the rolled oats, chocolate chips, and unsweetened coconut to a food processor.
  2. Pulse for a few seconds so that the oats start to break down, but the chips are still somewhat intact.
  3. Mix in the peanut butter, honey, almond milk, vanilla, and salt.
  4. Pulse until you have a sticky mixture (about 30 seconds.)
  5. Spoon out enough dough to make 1-inch-sized balls. You should get 30 bites from the recipe.
  6. Store in an air-tight container in the fridge. This keeps the balls nice and firm and also keeps the crispy texture.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

30

Serving Size:

1 bite

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 80Total Fat: 4.9gSaturated Fat: 2.2gUnsaturated Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 0.1mgSodium: 37.9mgCarbohydrates: 8.9gFiber: 1.9gSugar: 3.1gProtein: 2.0g

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