Chocolate Peanut Butter Oats Balls Recipe • Kath Eats

This chocolate peanut butter oats balls recipe is simple to whip collectively in 5 minutes with substances you in all probability have already got readily available. Naturally candy and gluten-free, you’ll love them for a straightforward snack!

Who doesn’t crave one thing a little bit (or so much) chocolatey and peanut-buttery on a given day? 

I like to make snack bars and bites at residence and must do it extra! They typically style higher than store-bought variations, and you’ll combine and match so many substances that you’ve got readily available.

Plus it’s an excellent exercise to do with youngsters round – in the event that they’ll think about the recipe with all these chocolate chips inside attain 🙂

The Best Snack Ball Recipe Ingredients

My favourite substances are:

• Oats
• Flax seeds or chia seeds
• Peanut butter or almond butter
• Vanilla extract (for a whiff of vanilla-y taste)
• Mini chocolate chips (simpler to combine in!)
• Natural sweeteners from maple syrup or honey

You can actually use any nut butter you want – almond butter, vanilla flavored nut or seed butters, cashew butter, and extra!

Make it gluten free by utilizing gluten-free oats, and use sunflower butter to make it nut free.

Slightly cocoa powder and darkish chocolate turns them right into a pure dessert! Or roll in some colourful rainbow sprinkles. 

Lastly, add a little bit protein powder to spice up that protein up only a bit. Just a little bit or they make come out too dry. You can stability out powder with a little bit extra sweetener. 

Chocolate Peanut Butter Oats Balls Recipe

These no-bake balls are type of like a peanut butter chocolate chip cookies meets banana bread. 

They’re not too candy, not too salty, not too chocolate-y, and most significantly, they’re scrumptious and satisfying for a snack. 

You can at all times add extra chocolate chips or coconut than the recipe requires, in addition to different add-ins (chia seeds, dates, nuts, and so on.).

Additionally, these balls solely take 5-10 minutes to make, so you can also make them proper when the urge strikes! 

This recipe doesn’t name for added sugar; the sweetness comes solely from the banana and chocolate chips.

Nutrition Facts

The oats present fiber, in addition to some iron and B nutritional vitamins; the peanut butter has protein, vitamin E, and monounsaturated fat (aka, the good things).

Coconut has vitamin C and medium-chain triglycerides (aka MCTs, a sort of fats that’s simply metabolized by the physique).

And the banana supplies potassium, vitamin C, and B6. Sounds like a well-rounded and balanced snack, to me!

How To Make Chocolate Peanut Butter Oats Balls

The directions are straightforward: simply combine all substances collectively, moist your fingers and roll into balls. You may pulse the oats via a meals processor too, if you wish to make the feel a little bit smoother. 

Step 1: Mash banana.

Use the again of a fork to mash till it’s shiny and clean. 

Step 2: Add substances to a big mixing bowl and blend.

Super straightforward! Add oats, peanut butter, chocolate chips, coconut, banana, salt, vanilla and blend.

I prefer to take away my wedding ceremony rings and blend with my fingers. It’s the easiest way to full incorporate the substances. But you need to use a spatula too – simply combine till all the things is moist and mixed. 

Step 3: Roll into balls.

I like a golf ball sized ball (two bites!) however you’ll be able to go a little bit smaller and make them into one-bite measurement too. 

If you fancy, it’s also possible to make these into bars! Slightly refrigeration will assist them maintain their form. Pretty them right into a small baking sheet and reduce into rectangles. 

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