You know you want one.
Or two.
Or four hundred and fifty four.
Maybe not four hundred and fifty four.
Then you’d get a stomachache, and that’s no fun. 😕
On the other hand, the stomachache might be worth it. For chocolate and peanut butter?
So worth it.
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Balls
(can be gluten-free)
Category: Healthy “No-Bake” Recipes.
- 1/2 cup rolled oats (or oat bran or quick oats) (Maybe even flaxmeal or protein powder!) (40g)
- 1/2 cup peanut butter (or other nut butter, or Sunbutter to be allergy-friendly) (115g)
- stevia drops to taste, or 2 tbsp plus 2 tsp pure maple syrup, or another sweetener of choice (If using a dry sweetener, you might have to add a little water or oil to make a dough. If using a liquid sweetener—such as maple syrup or agave—don’t add any extra liquid.)
- scant 1/8 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp flour or oat bran, or perhaps protein powder (I used spelt flour, but many others—such as oat or almond or all-purpose flour—will be fine. Not sure about coconut flour.) (15g)
- chocolate chips!!
Combine all ingredients in a cereal bowl, and mix until well-incorporated. (If you store your nut butter in the fridge, you might want to melt it a little so it stirs more easily.) Roll into balls, and try not to eat them all at once. Luckily, this recipe doesn’t make four hundred and fifty four.
Question of the Day:
Do you ever continue to eat even after you’re full, knowing you’ll regret it later?
Right off the bat, Thanksgiving and Christmas (especially Christmas cookies!) come to mind. But foods like roast cauliflower and brussels sprouts are also pretty easy for me to overeat and get a stomachache. Or too many raw walnuts or too much coconut butter… and yes, in the case of eating too much coconut butter, I think the stomachache is always worth it!
Link of the Day:
I pinned your peanut butter balls today but I pin almost all of your items. I love them! I’m just starting to be vegan for a few months. Would you be able to recommend a good cookbook for meals?
Thanks,
Jill
Hi Jill,
I guess it depends on your style of eating– fancy, “clean eating,” comfort food… and there are so many cookbooks out there that it’s hard to recommend one. My best advice is to go to the cookbook section of Barnes and Nobles and just browse through the wall of vegetarian cookbooks. They usually have an entire wall :).
I pinned these too, because I was going to make them, but then I realized we don’t have chocolate chips. Too bad choc. Chips don’t last in my house. I’m making them ASAP though!
Pinned these because they are my favorite of the recipes I have tried from you so far. So easy, and really good too, the kids loved them as well.
made these last night and they were so good! thank goodness I didn’t make 454!!!! I had a few after my work out last night and then another couple for breakfast. the PERFECT snack and start to my day! Thank you!
Loving the site!! I have most of these ingredients already in my house and I had no idea what yummy things can come from them!
Used oatmeal, honey, and dark chocolate for these and they turned out to be 3 WW points per ball. SOOOO good!
This is my FAVORITE! I love/hate how easy it is to make. . . Hate because I find myself eating wayyy to much. Thanks so much for the great recipes!
OH MY – I made these for the first time (I used organic almond butter though) and they are sooooo unbelievable good, I don´t even know why I ever bought candy in stores! Thank you so much for posting it – greetings from Germany!
Thank you soo much for this recipe. I was sitting around wishing I had something for dessert. My only real option was eating a handful of chocolate chips….not that I’m above it, but I wanted something a little more decadent than that. These fit the bill! And they were made in just a few minutes. And I’m trying not to eat them all. Yay!
I am currently living in Albania and do not have access to a lot of the ingredients used on this website 🙁 I was sooo happy to find peanut butter and oats at the market the other day that I had to try the peanut butter ball recipe as soon as could!! Only I can’t have sugar and I can’t find any sugar subs here so instead I added cinnamon and finely diced apple bits. They came out soo yummy! The balls were a little salty (I didn’t add salt but the peanut butter was salty) so I think next time I will add some more apple to help sweeten it up! I head back home in 2 months and can’t wait to try the rest of the sugar free goodies from here
Um HECK YES I always keep eating after I’m full! LOL I did this last night after I made Healthy Mounds Bars and I felt awful! 🙁 It really stunk but your Mounds were just sooo good I can’t resist! You’re gonna be the death of me with all these amazing recipes! 😉 Lol!
Hello to another Katie that loves cooking! I have been vegetarian (not quite vegan… I like my graze-fed cheese…) for over 10 years, and am always on the hunt for easy recipes that don’t require alien ingredients. These were a hit with all my (not-such-healthy-eating) friends and family, so thanks! They definitely work with coconut flour, and I even threw in a little shredded coconut for texture. Turns out they would’ve held fine without the shredded coconut, but it was a tasty addition nonetheless. I just came upon your blog today, and will definitely be back for more!
made these with flax meal (1/2c) and almond meal (2T) since i don’t have oatmeal or protein powder in the house. tastes great. more classy eating these balls than my standard spoon full of peanut butter chased with chocolate chips. thanks so much for the alternatives suggestions. so many recipes call for whey or other types of protein powder and since i don’t use those things, i have to pass on alot of recipies. next time i will use coconut flour since i’ve read comments that works too. coconut flour goes a LONG way so i’m always looking for reasons to use it, especially since i accidentally bought another bag, when i thought i was out….now i have enough for 5 more years at this rate.
well, guess what I just did.
Yep.
I made these things and finished ’em all.
can’t believe no stomachache has attacked me yet. ;p
Katie, you are a GENIUS!! Peanut butter and chocolate are my 2 guilty pleasures and you managed to combine both, as well as 90% of all my other favs, into tasty and HEALTHY and GUILT-FREE desserts!!!
(tears of joy) thank you…
Hi Katie,
I’ve been making different variations of these since I discovered this recipe last year. I found that honey (for the non-strict vegans) works the best with peanut butter. It has more of a “binding” effect and keeps the dessert moist.
I also tried making these with coconut flour–unsuccessfully at first. I learned from my mistake and made following adjustments to make it work:
-decrease the oats to 1/3 c.
-increase the peanut butter by 2 tbsps
-use honey as sweetener
Hope this information is useful!
Say you use instant oatmeal instead of the rolled oats. Would you have to, er, cook them to make them pleasantly edible in the peanut butter balls? :3
The recipe looks fantastic, by the way.