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!
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As usual, I’m commenting way after everyone. Anyway. I tried these recently, using almond butter, thyme honey and protein powder, and they were soooo yummy!! I’m always looking for new pre- and post-workout snacks, and just recently *shame on me* found out how portable balls were. I’d made others before, which used more protein powder, and I found them quite bland, so now I have found my “basic” recipe (doing it, I found it to be so versatile, I’ll HAVE to try and tweak it!).
Thank you, Katie!! 🙂
Just made these! They are wonderful! I would eat the whole batch, but my family knows I made them. =)
Making these for the second time because they are so easy and so delicious, first time used honey and 2 tbsps chocolate protein powder, large choc chips. Made 16 balls the first time. Thank you for a wonderful recipe!
I have a problem overeating these peanut butter balls! You were right…my sister and I devoured almost all of them.
My boyfriend is a huge fan of peanut butter chocolate banana and marshmallow. Do you think I could mash up banana to add to these? Also, I love this site. I have shared it on facebook and others have loved your recipes as well!
I made a version of these! I didn’t have chocolate chips *sad face*, but I made this recipe using the oats and 2 tbsps of peanut butter cookie dough protein powder. I then made cookie cups out of softened Almond Quest bar pieces and filled them with this dough, baked at 350 degrees for 6 minutes, and talk about YUM! Thanks for sharing!
First, I confess that I take liberties with most recipes. Here is what I did and how it turned out. I substituted ground flax as I didn’t have rolled oats. I had a jar of peanut butter from which much of the oil had been removed as my husband found it icky when separated. I also stored the PB in the fridge so I duly heated it up so it would be workable. BTW, do not put a PB jar in the microwave unless you have carefully removed ALL the foil from around the lip of of the jar. After sparking up my microwave I put the PB in a pan on the stove top. I used maple syrup, salt and GF flour. I had Nestle chocolate chips so put in a handful. Ok, so I started mixing and realized that my PB was so warm that it was melting the chips. I also found that my PB had too little oil to allow the mix to make balls. So I added 2T of sunbutter. That wasn’t enough so I added 1T coconut oil. I finally had enough oil to form balls. I formed the balls and my little boy and I gave them a taste. We thought they were gritty but generally good. Obviously the flax meal was the cause of the grittiness. My little guy had one bite and was done. I’ve had 3 and am happy for now. My mishaps aside I will absolutely try this recipe again but I would very much pass on the flax meal because it is not an appealing texture to me. Next time I’ll go with oats and a nut butter which is not too dry. I will also use caution if heating the nut butter as my cookies would have been much prettier had the chips remained intact. Thank you for a super easy recipe and a healthy alternative to the super sugary treats I was craving this afternoon. This was sweet enough to satisfy me without the guilt. A real gift, thank you very much.
just made these because I wanted a snack to get my sugar crave handled but not to fattening. these were pretty good. could only eat 3 because its a lot of peanut butter .
this recipe it’s perfect, thanks
LOVE these! I just stumbled across this website and I am obsessed! Thank you!
there great! if u let them sit in the fridge over night toast ’em , put ‘eh in a bowl but DO NOT let ’em cool add a splash of milk & dash of sugar & DIG IN!!!!!1
Just made these- DELISH. I added about a tablespoon and a half of cocoa powder instead of chocolate chips to save on calories. Thank you!
OMG… How fabulous are these..!!?? Trouble with the choc bits, though. Will omit next time. Added some cinnamon and a little coconut..! Oh, boy… delish..! These could be REAL trouble..!! Keep up the good work..! YUM…
I added cocoa powder and shredded coconut and used almond flour in substitute of all purpose. They were very good and my kids loved them too
I just made these. Oh. My. Goodness. These are absolutely delectable! I used 2 Tbsp almond meal as the flour and added some vanilla. I like the extra texture that the oats give. Katie, I have loved everything I’ve made from your site. Thank you!!
Going to give it a try. wish my clients wil like it. thanks