Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Energy Bites
The best easy, no bake snack packed with peanut butter and chocolate chip flavors. These energy bites are absolutely delicious.
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Energy Bites
Good morning friends! Today, I am excited to share a simple and delicious snack recipe. This recipe is for peanut butter chocolate chip energy bites. These bites are packed with flavor and nutrients. They are made with simple ingredients, many of which you probably already have at home.
These energy bites are also easy to pack up and take with you to school, work, or your favorite weekend relaxation spot. The bites are super moist, chewy, and delicious. If you like the combination of peanut butter and chocolate, I think you will really enjoy these little energy bites. Now, let’s go ahead and take a look at some quick things to note for this recipe, as well as the list of ingredients you will need to make these energy bites.
How Do You Make An Energy Ball?
Energy balls/bites are actually very easy to make. All you have to do is blend some quick oats into a fine flour. Then, you will add other key ingredients, such as pure maple syrup, chocolate chips, melted coconut oil, etc.
As long as you have enough moisture and something sticky to hold your energy bites together (I used peanut butter and pure maple syrup in this recipe), you can easily form your mixture into snack size energy bites.
How Do You Make No Bake Energy Balls?
Making energy balls/bites that require no baking is actually super simple. Firstly, you have to start off with the dry base. For this energy bites recipe, oats are blended into a fine oat flour to serve as one of the main base ingredients. Then, the oat flour is mixed with all of the other ingredients to form tasty no bake energy bites.
Oat flour is perfect to use in this recipe because quick oats are super budget friendly and versatile. I use oats in a lot of my vegan baked dessert recipes, and this one is no exception.
I also wanted to note that you can also easily store your peanut butter chocolate chip energy bites in the refrigerator to enjoy throughout the week. They actually taste quite delicious after they have had a little bit of time to chill and set. I like to store my energy bites in an airtight container so that they maintain their freshness and flavor.
Now that we have gone through some important things to note for this recipe, let’s take a look at the ingredients you will need to make these peanut butter chocolate chip energy bites.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Energy Bites – Ingredients
- Quick Oats – The first ingredient you will need for this recipe is quick oats. The oats will be blended up to form a fine oat flour. They will serve as the key dry base ingredient for this recipe.
- Mini Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips – The semi-sweet chocolate chips add a ton of sweetness to these peanut butter chocolate chip energy bites. I recommend using miniature chocolate chips so that you get a little bit of chocolate in each and every bite.
- Chia Seeds – The chia seeds are a small but mighty superfood that adds a bit of crunch to your energy bites. They are one of my favorite ingredients to sneak into recipes such as this one.
- Creamy Peanut Butter – The creamy peanut butter adds a ton of flavor and richness to this energy bites recipe. I used Trader Joe’s creamy salted peanut butter, but you can use whichever kind you have on hand or enjoy most.
- Pure Maple Syrup – The pure maple syrup adds a ton of sweetness to this recipe. It also helps the energy bites stick together.
- Melted Coconut Oil – The melted coconut oil adds flavor, richness, and moisture to these peanut butter chocolate chip energy bites. A little bit goes a long way.
- Nut Milk – The nut milk adds additional moisture and creaminess to this peanut butter chocolate chips energy bites recipe. I used unsweetened vanilla almond milk, but you can use whichever kind you prefer or have on hand.
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Energy Bites
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup quick oats (blended into a fine oat flour)
- 1 tbsp miniature semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 tsp chia seeds
- 2 tbsp creamy peanut butter
- 2 tbsp pure maple syrup
- 1 tbsp nut milk (I used unsweetened vanilla almond milk)
- 1/2 tsp melted coconut oil
Instructions
- Combine the oat flour, chia seeds, and chocolate chips in a mixing bowl.
- Make a well in the center of your bowl.
- Add in the peanut butter, pure maple syrup, nut milk, and melted coconut oil.
- Mix all liquid ingredients to combine.
- Slowly mix the wet ingredients into the dry to form a thick, sticky dough.
- Roll the energy bite mixture into six spheres with clean hands.
- Place the energy bites on a plate, then pop them in the refrigerator for at least an hour to chill and set.
- Dig in and enjoy!
Notes
I hope you all love this delicious snack recipe. The bites are packed with simple ingredients like peanut butter, chocolate chips, and pure maple syrup. They are the perfect quick and easy snack to meal prep and store in the refrigerator to enjoy throughout the week. Anyways, that’s it for this recipe. As per usual, I will be back with another blog post very soon.
-Alyssa 🙂
